Carrie Underwood performs "Cowboy Casanova" at "The 43rd Annual CMA Awards," on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009, live from the Sommet Center in Nashville on the ABC Television Network. Photographer: John Russell / CMA

Her “Cowboy Casanova” video is still lodged at No. 2 on GAC’s Top 20 Country Countdown, but Carrie Underwood’s got a new video on the way.

The clip for “Temporary Home” makes its GAC debut on Thursday, and she believes it will put a new spin on the song, which has caused a few folks to shed tears or at least develop a lump in the ol’ throat. The actual song is built around the stories of three people, all of whom are able to put a positive spin on a rough place in their lives by recognizing the transient nature of their situation. The video works a little differently.

“I feel like a video is a new avenue,” Carrie says. “You can kind of take it somewhere else, because you hear the song, you hear the story, you see pictures in your mind already. If you follow it too closely, what’s the point of having a video? I thought this one was a really good approach to it because it’s kind of like one person on their way somewhere, which is a theme of this song. You’re headed someplace, and then they kind of share these special moments with the characters. But through that, I felt like everybody’s on their own journey, and we all cross paths. So I felt like it was close enough to the story, but I felt like it was just far enough away to where, you know, it kind of provided a different angle.”

The “Temporary Home” debut comes in the middle of a hectic week for Carrie. She performed in the Michael Jackson tribute Sunday at the Grammy Awards, where she picked up the fifth trophy of her career for her duet with Randy Travis on “I Told You So.” Bookending the week, she sings the national anthem this Sunday before the Super Bowl in Miami.

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