Eric Church Songs - Cold One Lyrics

Eric Church - Cold One

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Album: The Outsiders
Released: 2014

Cold One Lyrics

It was a perfect day for the end of May, they say a record high
I stared at that green water when out of the blue and by surprise
She had her feet up on the cooler as she put our love on ice
She grabbed a beer, said, "I'm out of here,"
And walked out of my life

That was a Cold One
I never will get back
Yeah she had to leave, did she have to leave me one beer
Short of a twelve pack?
She left me hanging high and dry in that hell high summer sun
Damn babe, that was a cold one

It ain't the first time, or the last time
I watched love walk out
But it's damn sure the one time
I still ain't forgot about
I still like to drink a beer but a long neck I won't do
'Cause every time I see one sweating, man
I break out in one too

That was a cold one
I never will get back
Yeah she had to leave, did she have to leave me one beer
Short of a twelve pack?
She left me hanging high and dry in that hell high summer sun
Damn babe, that was a cold one

That was a cold one
I never will get back
Yeah she had to leave, did she have to leave me one beer
Short of a twelve pack?
She left me hanging high and dry in that hell high summer sun
Damn babe, that was a cold one

Damn babe, that was a cold one (damn!)

Writer/s: CHURCH, ERIC / HYDE, JEFF / HUTTON, LYNN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Cold One

This rollicking, tongue-in-cheek cut about a dumped guy is centered around a stolen beer.

That was a cold one
I never will get back
If she had to leave
Did she have to leave me
One beer short of a twelve pack

The song's title references both a drink and a deed as we learn of the narrator's memory of his ex taking a beer from his 12 pack out of a cooler when she left him.

Jeff Hyde and Lynn Hutton helped Church pen the song. Jeff Hyde has been a multi-instrumentalist in Church's band for many years. Lynn Hutton also helped write Florida Georgia Line's "Here's to the Good Times."

Eric Church: "It's light-hearted, and I feel like when you hear '(The) Outsiders' and 'A Man Who Was Gonna Die Young' [from the album], it can come across as, 'This guy's taking himself really seriously.'"

"And I think you need 'Cold One' to kind of have a chuckle and go, 'Oh, it's okay. This is music. We're having a good time. Let's laugh.' It's not so focused on the art part that you lose having a good time, and that's what that song to me sets up is it's fun."

The song's music video was directed by Church's frequent collaborator Peter Zavadil and shot at a beer warehouse and bar near Nashville. The clip features the singer along with his band members Jeff Cease, Lee Hendricks, Jeff Hyde, Driver Williams and Craig Wright in both performance and acting roles.