Caffey Five More Minutes Analysis

“5 More Minutes” by Scotty McCreery talks about how sometimes you just love a moment or a person so much that you wish you could have little more time where you were, what you were doing with, and who you’re with. Starting when he’s eight and he’s fishing then his mom wants him to come in and eat supper. He wants five more minutes to keep fishing because it’s their version of “the good stuff” or “the good times.” Throughout the song, time progresses all the way until he’s in the hospital with grandpa who’s dying. This is the moment that the song was written about, even though the memory isn’t happy, he just wished he had five more minutes. “5 More Minutes” has a theme that you’ll always want to savor the good times, but you can’t, and that