Eric Church is poised to hit the top of the country charts with his latest single, “Give Me Back My Hometown,” and he says it’s one of the loneliest songs he’s ever recorded.

“Something that anybody knows more than anybody else is their hometown. That’s where they’re most comfortable, that’s their comfort,” says the North Carolina native. “The loneliest thing about this song to me is here’s a guy who’s left in that place that should be the most comforting place to him, and it’s actually the place that haunts him because the girl left him and there’s memories of her everywhere.”

“Give Me Back My Hometown” is from Eric’s latest album, The Outsiders.

Eric Church (Hometown-lonely) OC: …more lonesome songs. :38
“Something that anybody knows more than anybody else is their hometown. That’s where they’re most comfortable, that’s their comfort. And the loneliest thing about this song to me is here’s a guy who’s left in that place that should be the most comforting place to him, and it’s actually the place that haunts him because the girl left him and there’s memories of her everywhere. And I just thought that the loneliness of that is that emotion of that is really what I think a lot of people in the song, and myself, are attached to emotionally. It’s one of the more lonesome songs that we’ve ever done. It may not sound it production-wise, but if you listen to it, it’s one of our more lonesome songs.”