Come on in, you guys. The gang’s all here. Sad, Regret, Fool and Lost, All My Fault, Blues, Sorrows, I Told You So, Outta His Mind, and Insane are the folks that Eric Church wants us to meet in his new song “Crazyland.”
In a recent radio interview, Church said the idea for this quietly acoustic ballad came to him in a dream. “I actually dreamed the chorus of the song, and I woke up and I wrote it down, and then I ended up writing the rest of the song to the chorus. I guess when you get to a creative point, you get in the groove like that,” Church said, adding with a laugh, “I was crazy at the time, so, you know.”
After that dream, Church penned the new tune with Luke Laird and Michael Heeney, and recorded it along with 27 other songs during a music-making retreat in the mountains of North Carolina. “Crazyland” is one of the first few singles off Church’s upcoming record.
Full Lyrics:
Let me take your hat friend
Tell me what’s the matter
’Round here folks call me the Mad Hatter
That’s Sad in the corner with his heart on his sleeve
Talking to Regret, who’s never gonna leave
Over there playing pool is Fool and Lost
And tending bar tonight that’s All My Fault
We all just hang out and listen to Blues
Sing his songs, there’s nothing else to do in
Crazyland
Since you said goodbye
It’s been crazy man
Lunatics, liars and also-rans
Waiting on her leaving to come back again
Here in Crazyland
Talking to yourself is the only plan
Giving up on your last give a damn
Here in Crazyland
Pick you out a stool son
I’ll buy the first round
I’ll tell you how her leaving
Brought the whole house down
No, not that one, that’s Sorrows
He’s over, shaking hands with I Told You So
That’s Outta His Mind, that just walked in
And he’s ol’ Insane’s new best friend
It’s a whole damn room full of lost whose who’s
And you never know who you’re gonna run into in
Crazyland
Since you said goodbye
It’s been crazy man
Lunatics, liars and also-rans
Waiting on her leaving to come back again
Here in Crazyland
Talking to yourself is the only plan
Giving up on your last give a damn
Here in Crazyland
I didn’t catch your name, friend, sorry ’bout that
Sure nice to meet you, baby, please come back