Heart On Fire

This uptempo, nostalgic track finds Eric Church recounting his happy memories of a teenage romance. He remembers his heart being "on fire" at the time.

Throughout the track, Church sprinkles the names of classic songs, including Elvis Presley's "All Shook Up," Don Henley's "New York Minute," and Guns N' Roses' "Paradise City."

The Chief recorded the song for his Heart & Soul triple album, which came out of the country star's marathon recording session in early 2020 in the North Carolina mountains. It found Church, producer Jay Joyce, and a group of songwriters and musicians writing and recording one song a day for 28 days in a former restaurant they turned into a recording studio for the occasion. Written solely by Church, this heartland anthem is credited with getting the singer's entire project started. "'Heart On Fire' was the first song we recorded when we got to North Carolina. I already had pretty much, I wrote this song by myself, but I already had this song on the rails and we were heading down the path of what this was going to be," said Church. "I thought we needed to kind of break the ice and get started on something, you know, we were doing something that was tough to do – writing the song the same day we were record it. This was the song that was kind of the icebreaker for the whole project, and I credit this song a lot for getting us to where we ended up getting to with the project."