The Everly Brothers were an American country-influenced rock and roll duo, … Read Full Bio ↴The Everly Brothers were an American country-influenced rock and roll duo, known for steel-string acoustic guitar playing and close harmony singing. Consisting of Isaac Donald "Don" Everly (February 1, 1937 – August 21, 2021) and Phillip "Phil" Everly (January 19, 1939 – January 3, 2014), the duo was raised in a musical family, first appearing on radio singing along with their father Ike Everly and mother Margaret Everly as "The Everly Family" in the 1940s. When the brothers were still in high school, they gained the attention of prominent Nashville musicians like Chet Atkins, who began to promote them for national attention.

They began writing and recording their own music in 1956, and their first hit song came in 1957, with "Bye Bye Love", written by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant. The song hit No. 1 in the spring of 1957, and additional hits would follow through 1958, many of them written by the Bryants, including "Wake Up Little Susie", "All I Have to Do Is Dream", and "Problems". In 1960, they signed with the major label Warner Bros. Records and recorded "Cathy's Clown", written by the brothers themselves, which was their biggest selling single. The brothers enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve in 1961, and their output dropped off, though additional hit singles continued through 1962, with "That's Old Fashioned (That's the Way Love Should Be)" being their last top-10 hit.

Long-simmering disputes with Wesley Rose, the CEO of Acuff-Rose Music, which managed the group, a growing drug usage in the 1960s, as well as changing tastes in popular music, led to the group's decline in popularity in its native U.S., though the brothers continued to release hit singles in the U.K. and Canada, and had many highly successful tours throughout the 1960s. In the early 1970s, the brothers began releasing solo recordings, and in 1973 they officially broke up. Starting in 1983, the brothers got back together, and would continue to perform periodically until Phil's death in 2014. Don died seven years later.

The group was highly influential on the music of the generation that followed it. Many of the top acts of the 1960s were heavily influenced by the close-harmony singing and acoustic guitar playing of the Everly Brothers, including the Beatles, the Beach Boys, the Bee Gees, and Simon & Garfunkel. In 2015, Rolling Stone ranked the Everly Brothers No. 1 on its list of the 20 Greatest Duos of All Time. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of the inaugural class of 1986, and into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001. Don was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2019, earning the organization's first Iconic Riff Award for his distinctive rhythm guitar intro to the Everlys' massive 1957 hit "Wake Up Little Susie".

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Just In Case
The Everly Brothers Lyrics

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You say
That you'll give me all your love someday
But Baby
That day seems so far away
Why not cuddle up a bit right now
Just in case
We have to part

You say
Baby now it's time to work and wait
You say
No more kisses 'til we graduate
I say live it up a bit right now
Just in case
We have to part

Just in case I'm drafted baby, just in case
Just in case they send me to some lonesome place
Baby even just in case that someday you
Find someone new

You know
That the future's many dreams away
But I want to laugh and live and love today
Baby now's the time to give your heart

Just in case
We have to part

Overall Meaning

The Everly Brothers' song "Just in Case" is a song about living in the moment and enjoying life just in case the future turns out differently than we had hoped. The singer is in a relationship with someone who is constantly putting off intimacy and fun until some unspecified time in the future when their love will be stronger. The singer, however, is not willing to wait for some uncertain future and wants to enjoy the present moment just in case they part ways in the future. The song is saying that we should not put off enjoying life and connecting with others until some perfect time in the future because we never know what the future holds.

The song also touches on the fears and anxieties of the times in which it was written. The song was released in 1964, during the height of the Vietnam War, and mentions being drafted to some "lonesome place." The song conveys the uncertainty of the times and the need to take advantage of the time we have because we never know what might happen in the future.

Overall, the song is a call to live in the present and enjoy the people we love now, just in case we are not able to in the future for whatever reason.

Line by Line Meaning

You say
You communicate

That you'll give me all your love someday
You promise your love to me in the future

But Baby
However, dear

That day seems so far away
The time of our love seems distant

Why not cuddle up a bit right now
Why don't we get closer at the moment

Just in case
In anticipation of a probable scenario

We have to part
We need to break up

Baby now it's time to work and wait
It is time for us to focus on our responsibilities and wait for the future

No more kisses 'til we graduate
We should refrain from any romantic activities until we finish our studies

I say live it up a bit right now
I suggest that we should enjoy ourselves at present

Just in case
In anticipation of a probable scenario