How I Think Eric Church’s Songs Link Together

This just clicked in my head the other day and every time I listen to these three songs in a row I find more similarities between all three. Let's see what you think.

Normally when artists link all their songs together... they tend to keep it all on one album.  Us radio people have to just go by the songs that are released as singles and the last two songs that Eric has released plus a song called "Knives of New Orleans" all sort of link up in my head a little bit.

Here are the songs in order... We start with "Wrecking Ball".  Everyone knows exactly what Wrecking Ball is about.  It's abou... well if you don't know then just listen to it down below.  I actually made a joke when it was first released and said "He's just talking about remodeling his house."

But here it is.  This song is all about one thing and he is all about this woman.  Rockin' Sheetrock and knocking pictures off the wall?  WOOO!  So at this point in the timeline I think that he is happy to get home and see his girl... right... and some extra curriculars.  Basically he is in love.

Listen to it here.

Alright so he is in love... we are making good progress.

So the second song in my little timeline is called "Record Year" and is his latest single released to air.  It is a solid song.  Awesome lyrics, awesome sound..... and just all around amazing damn song.

So in Wrecking Ball he was really in love with this woman.  Now in this song Record Year he is bummed out because she left him and all he is doing now is sitting with his three foot stack of vinyl.  Oh yeah... plus a Bourbon, Scotch and a Beer.

Listen out for these lyrics in here.  "Slowly Planning my Survival" and remember that for later.

Dang that song is good.  There was also a part where he was talking about the needle saving him,  "I drop it in a the groove, and we go round and round and down in a sprial."  Now obviously he is talking about putting the needle in the groove of the record and it sprials down to the end of the song... OR.  He could be talking about putting a bullet in the chamber of a gun.  But probably not.  We'll leave that door open.

So now it's time for song three and it hasn't been released to air yet.. that's a big yet because I want it so bad.  I pray about this song being released as a single every night. "Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray oh Lord, let Knives of New Orleans be released."

This is my all time favorite song right now and I can listen to it over and over and over again.  Now remember when I told you to keep that lyric in mind?  It was "Slowly Planning My Survival."  Knives of New Orleans is about KILLING SOMEONE! More specifically killing the girl that left him in the previous song "Record Year" that he was so in love with in Wrecking Ball.  And he was sitting there listening to all that music and getting hammered, thinking of a way he could get away with killing her.  GENIUS.

The song down below is just incredible.  Some of the lyrics that sort of stand out to me are

I did what I did -  He killed her and he isn't denying it.

I'm haunted by headlights - He is walking at night and when he sees cars coming he freaks out a little bit.

Auburn hair on a faraway sea wall screams across the Pontchartrain -   This is a little like... WOAH!  But I'm guessing he dumped her body in Lake Pontchartrain and is on the bank looking out over the water at her dead body against the sea wall that is holding the ocean back.

One wrong turn on Bourbon - Obviously Bourbon street is the main drag in New Orleans but he is referring to drinking too much Bourbon and losing his cool and killing someone.

Listen and enjoy.

WHOOOOO!!!!!!111  Holy COW!  Too good.  Now look.  Eric was in love in the first song.... was sitting in his house listening to music because she left him... and then he killed her.