It was "a song that we really believed in, that we felt told our story," bassist Jon Jones tells Radio.com about "Breaks Your Heart." "We didn't know if it was going to work on country radio because it's such a passion song about playing music. And we were really lucky that people latched onto it and put themselves in the song."

Appearing on the group's 2011 album Life at Best, the song was written by Will Hoge and and Eric Paslay. The Grammy nominations honor both the songwriters of the track and the group's performance of it � marking it as outstanding to the voters of the Recording Academy.