{"id":13951,"date":"2020-01-19T11:51:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T16:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/takenote\/?p=13951"},"modified":"2026-01-16T15:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T20:36:20","slug":"songwriters-toolbox-3-lessons-eric-churchs-song-some-of-it-can-teach-us-about-songwriting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/takenote\/songwriters-toolbox-3-lessons-eric-churchs-song-some-of-it-can-teach-us-about-songwriting\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Lessons Eric Church\u2019s \u2018Some of It\u2019 Can Teach us about Songwriting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-why-studying-some-of-it-helps-songwriters-write-stronger-verses-choruses-and-big-message-hooks\">Why Studying \u2018Some of It\u2019 Helps Songwriters Write Stronger Verses, Choruses, and Big-Message Hooks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Country songwriters know how to deliver big messages in small packages, with lyrics that often capture life\u2019s lessons. Eric Church\u2019s Grammy-nominated song \u201cSome of It\u201d is a great example of the personal and universal \u201cslice of life\u201d that makes this type of writing tick. The song may have lost out to \u201cBring My Flowers Now\u201d by Tanya Tucker and Brandi Carlile, but it\u2019s still worth examining.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the most challenging aspects of lyric writing is delivering a universal message without lecturing the audience, or sounding cheesy, as we songwriters so often describe it. We sometimes hesitate to get personal and specific with our lyrics, for fear of alienating an audience who does not share our unique experience. In the end, we wind up shelving titles or concepts that we know would make good songs if we could find an angle that didn\u2019t feel so clich\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether you\u2019re a fan of country music or not, the tools that country lyric-writing offers are invaluable when assessing the qualities of lyrics in any genre. The sensory language and story development tools help us to understand the purpose of the different sections of the song and how they interact. Let\u2019s take a closer look at the lyrics of \u201cSome of It,\u201d to see three tools we can apply to our own songwriting to write more confidently and finish more song ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re not already familiar with the song, give it a listen now:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Eric Church - Some Of It (Official Lyric Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pY_9y7QKoVg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-1-nbsp-shift-the-point-of-view-from-i-to-you-or-we-nbsp\"><strong>1.&nbsp;Shift the Point of View from \u201cI\u201d to \u201cYou\u201d or \u201cWe\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The concept of the song is that there are things in life that we all know to be true. When I listen, I feel the singer is using empathy to include himself in the shared human experience. He makes that clear at the end of the chorus when he throws up his hands and says, \u201cI know I don&#8217;t probably know what I think I do.\u201d He is, in a sense, talking the idea through in a neutral tone. This is something that characterizes big message songs, both within and outside of the country genre. We tend to embrace the message more when we feel the artist empathizing with us, joining us in the problem. Instead of writing the song from first person \u201cI,\u201d the artist uses direct address \u201cYou,\u201d indicating that we\u2019re all in the same boat. Many songs take this point of view when delivering a big message, including John Mayer\u2019s \u201cWaiting on the World to Change,\u201d and \u201cFollow Your Arrow\u201d by Kacey Musgraves. Try shifting the point of view from \u201cI\u201d to \u201cyou,\u201d or to \u201cwe,\u201d particularly in your chorus lyric. Feel what it does for the message, and importantly, how it characterizes your singer as joining the listener in a shared human experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/faculty\/andrea-stolpe\/?pid=8023&amp;utm_source=takenote&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=bol-gen-takenote-article-promotion\" target=\"_blank\">TAKE A SONGWRITING COURSE WITH ANDREA STOLPE<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-2-nbsp-offer-examples-to-show-the-chorus-truth\"><strong>2.&nbsp;Offer Examples to Show the Chorus Truth<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The second tool has to do with content of the verse lyric. Altogether, the lyric throughout this song is verbose. Country music allows for the lyric to take center stage through various melodic choices such as simplicity and repetition, and harmonic choices such as a chord progression in the verse that remains static while the melody and lyric can move. When it comes to verse lyric, a great question to ask ourselves is \u201cWhat specific examples show the chorus message to be true?\u201d We might shotgun several examples, each one a single line, or we might expand on only one or two to build out the verse section. In \u201cSome of It,\u201d we hear two verses that set up the chorus by showing us 10 examples of the chorus truth.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Beer don\u2019t keep<br>Love\u2019s not cheap<br> And trucks don\u2019t wreck themselves<br> Mama ain\u2019t a shrink<br> Daddy ain\u2019t a bank<br> And God ain\u2019t a wishin\u2019 well<br> Money ain\u2019t rich<br> Everybody sins<br> And nobody wins in a fight<br> And sometimes wrong gets right<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Try taking your next title and applying this technique. For example, let\u2019s say the title is \u201cNo One Knows.\u201d We could fill the verse with examples of what no one knows\u2014things like \u201chow to raise the Titanic,\u201d \u201chow to read a woman\u2019s thoughts,\u201d or \u201cwhy two people fall in love.\u201d The big message of that song could culminate in the idea that there are things we don\u2019t know, despite our progress, and maybe that\u2019s how it should be. Whatever the meaning, if it\u2019s true to you, then it will be true to other human beings who hear your song. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-3-nbsp-use-opposites\"><strong>3.&nbsp;Use Opposites<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Another similar technique is to take the opposite of the title. For \u201cNo One Knows,\u201d we could fill the verse with examples of what everyone knows. The chorus message would contrast nicely then, showing the one important thing that \u201cno one\u201d knows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The title \u201cSome Of It,\u201d or a variation thereof appears every other line in the chorus for a total of seven times. The writers play around with the word \u201csome,\u201d changing it to \u201cnone\u201d and \u201ca bunch,\u201d all within the same color scheme of the original word. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Some of it you learn the hard way<br>Some of it you read on a page<br>Some of it comes from heartbreak<br>Most of it comes with age<br>And none of it ever comes easy<br>A bunch of it you maybe can\u2019t use<br>I know I don\u2019t probably know what I think I do<br>But there\u2019s somethin\u2019 to<br>Some of it<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To do this in your own writing, isolate a word in the title and ask yourself what the \u201copposite\u201d of that word is. If the title is \u201cNo One Knows,\u201d we could isolate \u201cNo One\u201d and get the opposite idea: \u201csomeone\u201d or \u201ceveryone.\u201d If we isolate \u201cknows,\u201d we could get the opposite: \u201cthinks\u201d or \u201cfeels.\u201d Lines in the chorus could include these ideas. As an example, we could use \u201cSome of It\u201d as a reference and get:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>No one knows<br>But we talk like we do<br>No one knows<br>And it\u2019s sad but it\u2019s true<br>If everyone thinks<br>That what matters is proof<br>Then we don\u2019t need faith<br>And we\u2019re safe and good to go<br>And where\u2019s the soul<br>That no one knows<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a bit abstract, I\u2019ll admit. I could use some better lines, but the structure is coming along. There\u2019s one more lyric tool I\u2019d like to highlight from this song. Near the end of the chorus, the writers wrap the title back into the section through rhyme. Up until that point we\u2019ve had rhyme every other line. Near the end, however, we get rhyme with \u201cdo,\u201d \u201cuse,\u201d and \u201cto\u201d close together. 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