<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> "Anything But Mine" on YouTube </Td> </Tr> <P> "Anything but Mine" is a song written by Scooter Carusoe and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Chesney . It was released in January 2005 as the fifth single from Chesney's 2004 album When the Sun Goes Down . The song reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in April 2005 . </P> <P> The song is a mid-tempo ballad in which the narrator recalls a teen - aged encounter with a female, during a late summer vacation in a beach town . In the chorus, he explains that although he has to leave the next day to his home in Cleveland (not the city in Ohio, but rather the one in Tennessee), he still tells her, "I don't see how you could ever be anything but mine". The radio edit features an abridged intro and outro, while the album version features a false ending, followed by another repetition of the chorus run through a vocal filter . </P> <P> Scooter Carusoe, the writer of this song, also co-wrote Chesney's 2008 Number One hit "Better as a Memory" with Lady Goodman . </P>

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