Eric Church has released his new single, “Doing Life With Me,” to country radio, going for adds on June 13th. The song, which Eric co-wrote with Casey Beathard and Jeffrey Steele, is from his fan album, & — the second of the three releases (Heart & Soul) —  which was available as a vinyl exclusive to members of Church’s official fan group, the Church Choir. & will be released to digital and streaming platforms on August 19th, 2022.

For the three albums, he wrote and recorded the majority of the songs for the project during a 28-day trip to the mountains of North Carolina where he and the songwriters would write a song that morning and they’d go into the studio with Eric’s band that afternoon/evening and record the song. For “Doing Life With Me,” Jeffrey Steele (What Hurts The Most, Gone, My Town, The Cowboy In Me, Raise ‘Em Up) “had this little – that little riff on ‘Life With Me’ just up and down my neck. And he goes ‘I don’t know what this is.’ And then Casey Beathard walks in and he goes ‘Man, I had this lady I was just talking to and talking about her husband and she goes I guess that’s what he gets for doing life with me.’ And I thought that’s interesting. And all the sudden (sings) it just turned into a thing, but it was over Jeffrey’s thing. So, that night in the studio as opposed to having a session guy, Jeffrey Steele played that part and Jeffrey Steele sang harmony on that part and so did Casey.”

 

Doing Life With Me
Produced by Jay Joyce

It ain’t easy puttin’ up with

A road dog with a cup with a little Jack in it

You talk about the back seat

I don’t know don’t ask me

How she sat in it

She carried my burdens and paid my bail

Put a Tennessee breeze in my Carolina sail

And set me free

 

I don’t pray much anymore

For this old troubadour’s

Happiness, wishes, wants and needs

End of my ropes, hopes and dreams

Spend my livin’ giving thanks

For the ships I never sank

Every big every little in the everyday things

The notes and the words and the songs I sing

To the ones doing life with me

 

Coulda easily said goodbye to

This runaway train you’re tied to

You know I don’t get it

Baby how you roll with it

The fists and the fights and the scars of the battle

The ups and the downs of the judge’s gavel

How’d you wind up in my unravel

 

I don’t pray much anymore

For this old troubadour’s

Happiness, wishes, wants and needs

End of my ropes, hopes and dreams

Spend my livin’ giving thanks

For the ships I never sank

Every big every little in the everyday things

The notes and the words and the songs I sing

To the ones doing life with me

You’re my faith in the grace

Every sunrise brings

Set me free

 

I don’t pray much anymore

For this old troubadour’s

Happiness, wishes, wants and needs

End of my ropes, hopes and dream

Spend my livin’ giving thanks

For the ships I never sank

You’re my faith in the grace every sunshine brings

Every big every little in the everyday things

The notes and the words and the songs I sing

To the ones doing life with me

 

Eric is set to hit the stage at U.S. Bank Stadium on Saturday (June 11th), followed by a handful of festival dates later this summer.