Eric Church has another Top 5 hit on his hands with āSome of It,ā which is the second single from his 2018 album, Desperate Man.
Co-penned by Eric, Jeff Hyde, Clint Daniels and Bobby Pinson, āSome of Itā finds Eric dispensing āsomeā fatherly advice during the chorus: āSome of it you learn the hard way / Some of it you read on a page / Some of it comes from heartbreak / Most of it comes with age / And none of it ever comes easy / A bunch of it you maybe canāt use / I know I donāt probably know what I think I do / But thereās something to some of it.ā
According to Eric, āSome of Itā almost didnāt make the track list for Desperate Man. It was only after his wife, Katherine, played the song for a friend that Eric decided to revisit his upcoming track list.
āI was playing the album for a dear friend of ours, and my wife was with me, and it was just the three of us playing the album, and my wife said, āBut let me play you what didnāt make it,āā says Eric. āAnd the first thing she played was āSome of It.ā I hadnāt listened to it in a while, and it was always a favorite song of mine, and I listened to it that night and went, āIām gonna regret if I donāt record this song.ā I think my hesitation was because, initially, all the stuff that I thought was gonna be the pillars for this album just bombed, so I was scared of that song. But I think itās really interesting that the album took on an identity that allowed āSome of Itā to make it from where it started to where it is now.ā
Where it is now? No. 3 on the Mediabase chart.
photo by Tammie Arroyo, AFF-USA.com