Chords for Eric Paslay - Eric Paslay: Songwriter, Artist, Entertainer

Rock and roll, soulful, authentic, and badass.
Those would [Eb] be Eric Pasley words.
_ [Bb] _ _ _
_ _ He was a young writer at Cal Four,
[Eb] and I'd heard so much about him,
mainly because people were telling how much,
I'm a huge Tom Petty fan, and everyone's like,
he's like a young Tom Petty, I can remember that.
And I was like, I have to write with him.
I always know when he's written a song.
Songs that have [Ab] come on the radio, I'll know.
I'm like, that's Eric Pasley's song.
That's the stamp [Eb] of a true songwriter.
The way he communicates a lyric.
He's a poet.
There's no one else like Eric Pasley.
[Fm] The first thing you always notice about Eric
is he's very [Eb] commanding and tall.
He's actually a super sweet, quiet, gentle dude.
He's a stylist too, when he sings.
He's always been respected as a prolific songwriter
[Abm] in this town, long before his artist career.
_ _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ Cory [Db] Crowder called and asked if I'd join [Ab] him
and Eric one day in the studio.
And I [Eb] had this track for a while,
kind of wanted to play it for him,
just to see what they thought.
He just gravitated right away [Db] towards it.
Cory, I [Ab] believe, mentioned High Class, the [Eb] title.
And we just started going for this image and this [Ab] picture.
♪ Skip the line, baby, don't look back [Eb] ♪
♪ Tonight we high class, yeah ♪
I think Eric's [Ab] a star.
I love [Ab] seeing him own this [Eb] song.
Proud to be part of the record.
I [Ab] think it's an amazing record.
The thing that I think you would hear
from everybody in this [Eb] town, which speaks a lot to him,
is he's a great guy.
He's a great [Db] songwriter.
One of the best that I write with.
[Ab] I really don't know anybody that sounds like [Eb] Eric
that can do the things he does.
He's really a one-of-a-kind artist.
This record, [Ab] I've gotten the pleasure of listening to it,
and [Ab] it's the best [Eb] collection of Eric that I've heard to [D] date.
_ _ [A] If [Gbm] you don't have a great song,
[E] you might as well not [D] make a record.
You might [A] as well not call a session.
[Gbm] So he has great [E] songs, and he also happened to write one.
[A] I think what makes country music is the lyric,
[Gb] talking about real life.
To me, [E] Eric's songs [D] are authentic,
[A] and he's written them [E] that way.
They're believable.
His delivery is believable.
So then when it comes to production,
we should honor the same sentiment.
The album should be a [D] representation of the [A] fun stuff,
the [Gbm] sad stuff, the [E] party stuff.
Any [A] situation, I think Eric's music can work in.
The [Gbm] cool thing about Eric is that [E] he sits down
in a songwriting [D] session, grabs his guitar,
[A] and he just [Gb] starts singing a [E] hit song.
And he's just making [D] stuff up.
He's done [A] that every time I've written with him.
[E] He's in the moment, and it's immediate.
Like, [D] all of a sudden, you're hearing [Am] Eric Pasolay
sing a [E] hit song that he's making up,
and you happen to be there [A] in the room with him
when he's doing it.
I think either me or Eric said,
did you [E] ever see Cash for a White?
And I was like, boom!
[Dm] I was like, that's it, that's it,
let's build [A] it around that.
And we wrote [Gbm] Dressed in Black. _
[E] _ _ [D] _ I would [Db] describe Eric, if someone asked me,
as a real artist.
I would put [Gb] him up there songwriting-wise,
[D] talent level of [A] your classic [Gbm] artist.
He's got his thing [E] dialed in,
and he knows what's good.
He's got a great ear.
[D] _ _ [A] And a nice beard.
[Gbm] _ _ _
[E] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ [Dm] I met Eric when he was the intern
at Cal Four Entertainment, where [Bb] I was writing at.
He was someone who, the moment I heard him,
I [C] believed him.
♪ I don't know _ _ [Bb] what you in [F] my [D] heart do [Dm] ♪
Let You in [E] My Heart was a song that we [Bb] wrote.
Eric actually started it on the piano.
[Dm] He just started playing that lick.
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _
It's just [Dm] a really special song.
He is one of the best [Bb] I've ever worked with.
It's been [Dm] a real honor to work with him,
aside from being his friend.
The [G] first time we got in the room [Dm] together,
about 10 minutes in, I knew.
[F]
I said, you know what?
This [Dm] guy's the real deal.
The first time we wrote, _ we wrote Wild and Young,
which is on this new album.
In my [D] mind, Eric [Bb] is a songwriter
that [Dm] happens to be a great artist.
I'm so glad that he's finally [F] getting to see the light,
and everybody's getting to see him.
He's just an all [Bb]-around great guy, and has the goods.
[Em] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [G] _ I've always described Eric as just the real deal.
Yeah, and you always knew with Eric,
he was gonna write a good song.
He was gonna bring the heat.
[G]
Eric's [Em] a real _ [G] artist.
I don't know that he ever chased it.
It's an [A] effortless [D] thing.
I saw him play at Marathon a while back,
and I [G] was watching him.
He'd grown into this [Em] entertainer,
and I'm watching him up there thinking,
man, [D] that's Eric?
[G] Because he was up there dancing,
[C] and just working [A] the crowd.
It was great.
We [G] wrote for the first time [D] in 2006.
[G] I knew immediately in the room with Eric
that there was something really special going on.
When he started [C] singing,
I [Em] knew that [D] he was gonna be very, very successful,
no matter what he chose to do,
if he wanted to be [Em] an artist or a songwriter.
His music [D] is great, but [G] as great as his music is,
he's also that great of a human being.
[Em] _ _ [D] _ In [G] an age of arguably, arguably forgettable music,
Eric is timeless, he's unforgettable.
I think his talent stands out,
[Em] and will [D] stand the test of time.
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