Church says something broke inside of him on Sunday night when the shooting happened. He felt broken for his people.
“And the only way I’ve ever fixed anything that’s been broken in me is with music,” he said. “So I wrote a song.”
In mourning the victims of the Las Vegas shooting, Church wrote a song called “Why Not Me,” in which he cries out to God, questioning things he can’t understand.
“The Lord is my refuge and fortress, my God with whom I trust. But I’ll never know why the wicked gets to prey on the best of us.”
With a line that sounds like it was written specifically in memory of Sonny, Church sang, “Why you from Tennessee did life capture, and me from Tennessee get away.”
His words were raw, and rang true of the things country music was founded on—God, heartbreak and vulnerability.
See his full Opry performance below.
https://youtu.be/fwDZ8uhqJg0
