Eric Church is performing “The Snake” on Sunday night’s ACM Awards. The song, from his latest album Desperate Man, was written about what is going on in the world of politics today.

“‘The Snake’ is really a song that was written about this political discourse, battle, Armageddon that I think everybody gets involved. It’s so interesting to me, full disclosure by nature I’m just not a very political person. I find it somewhat silly because I kind of get what is going on. I feel like in order to be a career politician, you have to keep your base riled up and the best way to rile up your base is to attack the other side, and the other side does the same thing. So, you have these two sides that are attacking each other vehemently and they’re doing it just so they can stay in office. They’re not doing it for any legitimate reason, so this song really came from whichever side you want to paint is a copperhead, and whichever other side you want to paint is a rattlesnake. I feel like that’s all they do all day, and in the meantime, the whole world’s burning down, because there’s not enough people in my opinion, there that actually want to do something; that actually want to accomplish something. They just want to stay in office. That’s rjeallly where this song came from, and at least the humorous part for me was calling them copperheads and rattlesnakes, ‘cause that’s exactly how I feel about ‘em.”

Ever wondered what "The Snake" was about? Hear what it means to Eric in this special 'Story Behind the Song' and make sure to tune in to the @ACMawards tonight to see a special live performance with @AshleyMcBryde! pic.twitter.com/q6QQCqelZM

— Eric Church (@ericchurch) April 7, 2019

Eric, who is making his way up the country charts with his latest song “Some of It,” takes his Double Down Tour to Dallas next weekend (April 12th and 13th).