Matt Kennon, "The Call" - OFFICIAL VIDEO 

Hey guys... please don't read this, but I'm 132 days sober. Thank you for this song

As a man who has given up on life several times; Please do not underestimate how much your friendship may mean to others.

It wasn't a call but sister walked in my room to check on me as I writing my note and I realized my siblings would be the ones to find me. That moment saved me. Married and pregnant with my first child. I thank the Lord everyday for my sister.

This song hits different when you’ve gotten the call

There aren't many songs that can make a grown man cry like a baby in public. This one definitely is one of those songs. Every word hits way too close to home. Make the call

Like many, I've also been there. back at 19yo. I'm 32 now, married, two kids, 3 cars, and a large dog. Being a father is typically a thankless job. but it's those little moments that make it worth it. Come home and pass out from exhaustion, wake up at 7pm and find one of your babies in your arms watching TV. That love makes life worth fighting for.

Matt Kennon I am a US Army disabled Veteran I just want to say this song has meaning in my life I was in a dark place when I was at a local Dragstrip on September 10th 2022 when this rough and tough marine veteran sat next to me and struck up a conversation with me we exchanged phone numbers and since then he has called and checked in on me to see how i am doing

By far one of the greatest songs ever. I have listened to it probably 1,000 times. Moves me every time.

I'm only 15 and my 8th grade year made me want to end it. That's how bad it was. I'm now a sophomore. My best friend who's like a brother to me will never know he pulled me (mentally and emotionally) away from suicide. I owe you a big thank you. Thank you for being there.

My friend took her Life. The day before she did I had a feeling I should have called her. I never did. It is the single greatest regret of my life. I could have stopped her. Ever since then I have always followed through. A couple of months ago, I was able to talk my girlfriend out of a suicide attempt. I know God lives. I hope y'all make the call, don't ever ignore what God tells you.

This song hits differently when you have hit rock bottom and you feel like you have nothing left to live for and then you receive a call from your family asking if you are ok.

So underrated,but a masterpiece. It can literally save lives. Hats off 🔥

I dont know why I'm just finding this song but it is so beautiful

This song legit saved my life. I was missing my dad who passed Away when I was 13. I had my .45 under under my chin. Listening to sad songs. This song came on auto play and I couldn't do it. I still my dad like crazy but I know ending it isn't the right way to get back to him.

Man... This song just came on the radio while I was driving to work, and let's just say I wasn't expecting to cry that hard today.

I served 12 years and did deployments with the Marines. I e been where the first guy was. Listen people if your thinking of ending it all you aren't alone. Trust Jesus he will take your burden and lift you up. If he can save a former atheist like me then he can save you.

Both situations I was in. Funny enough the boy I had at 18 saved me from the first situation and now have an amazing 11 year old. He has saved me in more ways he will ever know know. I will never regret having my baby.

Back when country music had meaning

The first time I heard this it was after a friend's funeral due too the 22 a day. Its guts me every time I hear it. I've been on that edge many times myself

Lord Jesus, please give those who are weak strength... Save them from making this mistake, please... In Your Name i pray, Amen.

At 15 years old, I was done with everything. The guy I loved left me, it felt like my mom didnt care, my step dad was abusive, the list goes on. I tried overdosing on pills. I got lucky. I didnt take enough. It was a failed attempt. But had it not been, I wouldnt have know that my oldest was going to make his appearance into the world in 7 months. Things got better. I realized my mom cared but was going through her own stuff and was having her own difficulties. She left her now ex husband, I married the man I was in love with back then and we're now waiting on our 3rd child. Things still get rough sometimes, but I'm so glad things turned out the way they did.

The first part of this song is pretty sad knowing that each day TWENTY-TWO (22) veterans end their lives due to PTSD. 22 is 22 too many.

This song will save lives because somewhere, someone will hear it and think of someone to call, and that person will need a call of their own.

I believe Jesus uses ways like this to keep people from ending their lives.

It wasn't a call, but a couple of marines came and literally saved me. It's a debt I can never repay.

I've been there. 13 hospitalizations in 8 years. BUT I finally fought the demons to a draw 5 years ago. Now, pursuing a dream I've had for 26 years.

Listened to this song 100 times. It never hits any different, always call someone when you're thinking of them. There is a reason.

I wish I had someone to talk to right now. I’m 20 years old and just lost my great grandmother while i am in AIT for the military. She was the most important person in my life and I’m struggling a lot right now. This song is very powerful and means a lot

"Two 18 year olds let a kiss go to far"....damn how that brings back a memory. I went with her to the clinic, we then found out the test she had take was a false positive. Sometimes things work out for the best. I now have a wonderful family and wife. And Tracey is married with kids.

My husband tried to kill himself a week ago. After 2 decades together, he wanted to set me free. He thought he was a burden on me. He's the love of my life, my better half, my best friend. He completes me. Tell those you love that you love them. Call them. I love you, babe. I'm so glad you're home with me. ❤

My army buddy took his life a few years ago, I swear I can still hear him saying "never let em steal your fire soldier" This is for you Crowner, I wish I coulda walked with you out that darkness brother. I'll Never Let Em Steal My Fire.

I've loved this song since I first heard it years ago. But every year around this time it hits a little harder because I didn't make that call. Kills me every day.

I’m a marine and I cry and get so homesick everytime I hear this song. Man, never take your best friends for granted.

I love your music, this is my favorite song. especially the beginning it reminds me of when I almost ended my life, I had the rope tied around my neck 2 years ago when i was 16 my little brother was 4 he walked in on me and right b4 I got off the chair I didn't do it I couldn't with my baby brother right there, I got down, went to my mom and cried. I told her i needed help, I got help.

This song helped save me had a rough time when I got out of the military I was at rock bottom heard this song and also thought that I couldn't leave my mom with that cowboyed up and I'm happy working in law enforcement trying to help other people now.

This has gotta be one of the best country songs ever. Lots of feeling in this. If only new country artists knew how to do that... You should seriously record more songs, because the two I've heard are some of the best.

sometimes it's amazing how something that seems so small, is the biggest thing that can ever happen to someone at the right time.

This song hits different. When they didn't answer your call.. or when they got no call. Rest in peace to all the ones we've lost too soon..

Been in that waiting room...thankful God gave me the strength and the wisdom to be a single mama....I made a promise and I kept it...

Still brings a tear to my eye.

Some people really don't know how much it means to someone who is thinking about letting it all go, when someone calls just for a little talk. I speak out of experience when I say that those calls have made me change my mind on more then one occasion. I thank you guys for all you did for me in those times. I will always respect and look up to you. You guys really saved me from myself. I love you guys. Hope we can have another guys week out in the forest. You guys are great.

wow!!! VERY glad I found this song!!! healing!!!

2/17/2021. It wasn’t a call. But the image of my kids flashed in my mind. When they popped in my head I heard my best friends voice saying Brandon your kids need you I need you and we love you more then you know. That split second saved my life. That’s the second time my best friend saved my life and I love her dearly for it.

Thank you for this song, believe it or not this song pretty much saved my life. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Lord have mercy, great song. It just takes a little compassion, a little empathy, a little love. Caring about others is so critical and can change a life so drastically for the good.

We're living in a world who puts themselves first. I will never be that person ever. Thank you God🙏

Good luck to all of you out there who ever you are

Listen to this song once a year. Had helped me through a lot and will continue to do so.

ive lost three best friends.I would do anything in this world to go back and change it all. I miss them everyday and I joined the military so that I could keep their memory alive and feel like im doing something that they would be proud of.

Rest easy Andrew 🕊🕊❤️ we will never forget you

Thank God with all of this to come

Hey Matt i doubt youll ever read this but 3 years ago you saved my life. I was sitting in my dodge pickup with a loaded 9mm lookin at the barrel. My mother was going through stage 4 luekmia and I was about to give it all up. I received a call i was having a little girl. She's now 3 and because of you i have took up country singin and playin guitar. Mama was so happy and i havent seen a smile that big in many years. For the first time she got out of that bed and walked. She did not walk for many months, because of that little girl she gained strength. Sadly mamma lost her battle but your song reminds me every day to keep fighting. Remmeber the name cause one day we will meet and i hope i can be on stage together. JW Harris sir. God bless and much obliged.

This song hits me so deep in my soul. In 2010 I was assaulted by my ex. By the fall of 2011 I had a complete mental breakdown over the trauma, the stress of a trial against him, and just trying to process what happened to me. One day things got so bad that I found myself in my car, driving, fast, towards a tree I knew was big enough that I wouldn't survive the impact. I had never in my life been suicidal, but that day, it was all just too much and I was absolutely done and truly felt my family and friends would be better off not having to watch the train wreck I had become. 2 miles before I got to that tree, my phone rang. I wasn't going to answer it but I looked at it and my 13 year old niece's name was on the caller ID. I knew I couldn't let her think I had tried to answer and wrecked, so I answered. All she said was Hi Aunt Jamie, what are you doing? Just the sound of her sweet, precious voice was enough to snap me out of the devastation I was feeling and before I knew it, I had passed the tree, pulled over immediately and tried to hide the tears that were falling so she wouldn't know and I just talked to her about the things 13 year old girls talk to their Aunt about. That girl saved my life that day and she doesn't even know it. 10 years later I'm so very thankful for that call. If you're at the place I found myself in 10 years ago, I hope and pray that either you make a call to get help or the call that can save you comes. Life is worth living. It does get better. Please don't give up. If you know someone who may be in a bad place, make the call. It might just save their life.

I was considering ending it all, i was sitting on base (because i couldnt have a weapon), i was about to drive home and get one. I called everyone in my phone, 1 guy answrred the call and invited me over, he is the reason im here today. He heard the hurt in my voice and invited me to his place, no one else including my girl friend of the time cared enough. I now live my life in a way to give back to him and his actions. My phone is always available to those near me.

So glad that there are so many that have seen this!

This may have been a one hit wonder, but this man put more into this song than many put into a career. Such a powerful song, music, and lyrics. God bless everyone who is struggling. You are not alone, do not give up. I'm glad you called.

i dont even like country music all that much i maybe listen to it 3 times a year but im obsessed with this song and i dont know why

Shows how it is important to check on your friends

I am a cancer survivor I listen to this song when im down. Thank for this song

Seriously. I don't see much good in this world but this comment section got me in my feelings in a great way. It's not often I see so many people willing to help others and I believe this is amazing. Thank y'all here for being good people

Wow, what an incredible song. Goosebumps!!

One of my battle buddies took his own life. I feel so guilty I didn't realize he was struggling. Thanks for this song Matt!

I literally keep thinking of this song every time I want to end my life and you really helped me through a lot

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This song always makes me cry. Great song, great message.

at times everyone needs someone to talk to your just someoen who will listen to you and give you advice, it may be a close friend, relative, or a complete stranger. This song shows that no matter what there is always a person out there to help you out when you need it.

This song hits home so hard even all these years later.. one of my best friends from hs had so many signs that younger me 12 years ago missed... I so wish I could go back in time and make that call... I really wish he was with me recently at my wedding but I like to think he still saw it up above. Miss and love you always Matt fly high brother

Everyone touched by the first part but the second part gets me everytime 😭😭

2021 and this song still hits me to the core

This is such a good song as it reflects our society today

Heard this about 15. Dam. Changed my life. Thank you. I here now because of it. Thank you

ABSOLUTELY love this song, i personally think its the best country song thats out right now, i can relate to this so from beginning to end, i am a person who suffers from depression , up until i met my now husband i struggled with depression to the point i questioned my life daily, thinking and trying to find away out, i remind him every day that he saved my life, I also had a ex who tried to convince me that i should of gotten a abortion with our son, i choose not too even if it meant that i would be raising him by myself, unfortunately I loss my son due to kidney failure and pre-mature labor... this song hit home for me in every aspect, it is a very personal song and those who have experienced these situations could agree. some times all it takes is for someone to pick up the phone the call, people who suffer from depression or ptsd are not people seeking attention, sometimes we need to be reminded that there are people who do care and we do matter, the mind is a power tool and if you suffer from depression, the depression over powers the "normal thinking" process.

I believe that god tells us when we need to do something. I've gotten feelings to call my friends and I'm glad I called and so where they..

2023 baby!!! And still cry to this song every time

I cry every time I listen to this song

I wanted to end my life about two months ago. I felt something different when I tried. My brother walked into my house and told me to grab my fishing pole. I hid the gun in the couch as my 2 nieces ran to me and jumped in my arms. That was my wake up call. Don't leave the the babies grow up without their uncle/father/cousin etc. Your family needs you point blank.

Listened to this for the first time today and shed a few tears honestly. Very powerful song.

I heard this song today and it made me think about my aunt, who had passed away 3 years ago. I wish i could've called her that day. I regret not calling her. This is making me cry

July 4th my best friend video called and ended their life with me watching and scrambling to call for help states away. I wish I could of stopped her. I find healing in music and appreciate this. I wish my call had been enough. If ever you are struggling call someone for help. Everyone is precious to someone. Don't forget someone loves you.

This is what real Country Music sounds like

3 kids ended their life when I was a senior. One was in 7th grade, one in 8th, and one was a senior. All within two months of each other. This is one of the songs I’d play on repeat and ask myself if there was anything I could have done even though I didn’t know them that well..😢

Been here. Hope everyone who comes to listen to this, understands that you are wanted

Very Elegant, Inteligent, Simpatic Matt Kennon

this song helped me when I was headen down a dark path and I thank you for that Matt kennon

I've been in this same spot. In 2006 I got out of the Corps after serving my time, 3 tours in Iraq. Completely lost my mind and couldn't get a handle on where to find it. Everyday was a new day worse than the previous day, just couldn't get a grasp on life. I was at such a low that I was physically sick from it. I lost my wife, my friends, everything I worked for just went away. On the night I was about to give myself eternal rest, my phone rang. After that I was hospitalized 5 times throughout 3 years. 7 years later at 0346 I was at work and missed a call from Brian, the guy that saved me.. later that morning at 0611 his brother called me and told me Brian had ended his life at roughly 0400. My world stopped. It's been a few years but the guilt hasn't let up, I'll never forget or forgive myself for not answering that call. My life has moved on but I think about him daily. I'm still here, I'm living my life to its fullest for the both of us but it still hurts...

damn this song hits home

Every time I listen to this song I feel like crying every time

Hits hard I've listen to this song for years that's why I always try to make people smile and give my shirt off my back

❣❣❣ This is a song on another level just absolutely wonderful.

One of my friends, we talked pretty much everyday.. well I didnt hear from him for a few weeks until his mom got on his social media and messaged me the news. Wish I'd have made a call.

Wish Matt would come back love his voice...

Am I the only one in 2020 hearing this song

I've lost several brothers I served in combat with to suicide 20 or more combat veterans commit suicide each day historic record numbers sadly and I can't explain the bond we have that is the term band of brothers you have to experience it and every o e my brothers I lost to suicide was no different then those i lost in combat. To me they died in combat to. I suffer from PTSD and TBI as well as other issues I'm 100% disabled and a retired green beret so I know what it feels like we feel like PTSD isn't fear of the war most Us wish we were still in combat Becaue it's the last time we felt normal and it's sad when we don't feel that way in the country we love so much and were willing to die for and sacrificed so much for so we end up lockng ourselves inside our homes only to leave for VA appointments or when we really have to and some family or friends don't understand and think we can just get over it. Once you are in combat your never the same wasn't until my first tour that I understood my father finally. Even smells can set us off its like we left our souls or part of our minds on the battle field thousands miles away and if I didn't have the love and support of my family and friends I would of been part of the statistics plauging combat veterans today who commit suicide. We don't sleep for days until we crash partly because we fear the nightmares and partly because our minds won't shut down. And our emotions are almost impossible to control I never was a person who cried easy now I do out the blue at times when thoughts or even a war movie or song like this hits so close to home. Some of us haven't slept in the same bed as our spouses for years because we're afraid a nightmare might make us hurt them and it will and just once is enough and without a strong marriage or supporting wife it will destroy your marriage divorce and other issues regular people deal with on top of PTSD from combat it can all just build to the point we rather end it and not wake up. Anyone who's related of good friends even acquaintances with a combat veteran even if they say their ok or don't have ptsd Because it's hard for us to admit it especially special forces soldiers when they called it shell shock in Vietnam and wars before the military didn't acknowledge it they considered it cowardice or weakness general patton lost his chance of being the supreme allied commander to Eisenhower after he slapped a soldier in the hospital for she'll shock calling him a coward saying ordering him put of bed that he didn't deserve to be amongst all the wounded who were real men he was already on thin ice for not knowing his place and getting along with others so Eisenhower who never been in combat served WWI state side and was refuses everytime he put in for a command overseas In the war while patron was a decorate combat veteran. So until recently we didn't accept or admit we had PTSD took wife and daughter to get me to finally seek help. But not all combat vets have that kind of support so please give them all the support you can even a call or text can save a life

POWERFUL. Thank you for this song. Sooo many need it.

I don’t even like country music, but this one gets me in the feels every. single. time. My “call” was the thought of my little nephew growing up without me. My sister having to deal with the grief. My poor mom, who I’ve already put through enough. So glad they called…

That first scenario got to me

Beautiful song. . .

I'm glad you wrote this song, lost my Dad to covid in 2021, but it still hurts so bad and feels like it was yesterday. I miss him so so much, but I know that he is no longer hurting; he is in his forever home he is in heaven and I know that I will see him again. Love you Daddy, always and forever❤

I was listen to these song when I was about to end every thing. I was at the bottom of the river. If it was for my now loved so much wife I would've pulled that trigger. I owe my life to here and I love her so much for that one dam phone call. Like it says make that call it could help out. Thank you so much for these song.

Please pray for my friends family he took his own life and we laid him to rest today RIP forever