LISTEN: Eric Church Was ‘Smitten’ With His New Song ‘Hell Of A View’
CMA 2020 Entertainer of the Year nominee Eric Church has a new song, “Hell of a View,” that is headed for radio.
The song’s lyrics read, “This ain’t for everybody / Toes hanging off the ledge / Like we got nothin’ to lose / Ain’t always heaven, baby / This livin’ on the edge / You holdin’ me holdin’ you / It’s a hell of a view.”
This latest song was born from a sequestered session in rural North Carolina where Church wrote and recorded a song per day for nearly a month.
Eric said, “We had a pretty good weather day and Casey Beatherd, one of the writers on the song, had been with Monty Criswell (another writer) earlier. They had kind of worked on some of the song and hadn’t played it for me yet. I went out to jog and I came back in, and Casey was kind of standing up looking out the window and I can tell he’s playing. And when I opened the door, he looked up at me and he said, ‘Don’t say anything. You’ve got to hear this. This is really good.’ He immediately started playing the first part of the song.”
He added, “I was hooked. I was in. I loved the way he had the line, ‘caught your wings on fire/when I smoked my Bronco tires out of town,’ and I just thought that was such a great line, and I was smitten with it at that point of time. So, we finished it that night, later that day/night and then recorded it, and it came out great. I knew it was pretty special when it went down.”
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