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Mad ManEric Church

Released: April 20, 2021

Songwriter: Casey Beathard Eric Church

Producer: Jay Joyce

He's a modern day Jekyll and Hyde, mixin’ pride with the cold hard facts
Starin’ awful hard at a picture on a bar of a girl that he won't get back
He's talkin’ to himself knowin’ damn well his self doesn't know what now
'Xcept fire shots of Jack and popping caps of Silver Bullets in his mouth

He's a mad man at the world
‘Cause a girl told him goodbye
His thumbs up has been grounded
Now it’s that bird he loves to fly
Might be happy hour to you
But his mind ain’t nowhere near there
It’s busy goin’ crazy on the heels of her Mercedes
Drivin’ back home north of eighty towards the badlands
He’s still holdin’ on like a mad man

He ain't lookin’ for a fight but that might be what ya get
If you light that fuse that looks to you like a half-smoked cigarette
Just leave his glass half empty, he's better off left alone
Kind of like a house up the road, the lights are on but no one’s home

He's a mad man at the world
‘Cause a girl told him goodbye
His thumbs up has been grounded
Now it’s that bird he loves to fly
Might be happy hour to you
But his mind ain’t nowhere near there
It’s busy goin’ crazy on the heels of her Mercedes
Drivin’ back home north of eighty towards the badlands
He’s still holdin’ on like a mad man

Yeah like a mad man, mad man, like a mad, mad man

Eric Church

Eric Church is an American country music singer-songwriter from Granite Falls, North Carolina. After graduating from Appalachian State University with a business degree in 2000, Eric became engaged to a Spanish teacher from Lenior, NC whose father attempted to deter his musical aspirations by offering him a corporate career in Denver. After turning down her father’s offer, Church’s ex-fiance broke the engagement, giving Church motivation to move to Nashville and begin focusing solely on his music. Recollections of this turning point in Church’s life are heard throughout his lyrical portfolio (most prominently in “Those I’ve Loved”).

After a period of being overlooked by record labels and producers, Church was eventually signed to Capitol Records in 2006, making his debut with the album, Sinners Like Me. The album produced four singles on the Billboard Country Chart, “How ‘Bout You,” “Two Pink Lines,” “Guys Like Me,” and the album’s title track.

His second album, 2009’s Carolina, produced three more “Smoke a Little Smoke,” “Love Your Love the Most,” and “Hell on the Heart.”

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