The Real Meaning Behind HARDY's 'Give Heaven Some Hell'

May 2024 · 2 minute read

"Give Heaven Some Hell" is actually the child of another Hardy song, "Truck." While writing "Truck" with Hunter Phelps and Ben Johnson, one of them penned a lyric that struck gold. "The original line we threw out was like, 'I bet there's stories about his best friend that he can barely tell/Because he's givin' heaven some hell,”' Hardy said to Billboard. "I can't remember who said the line, but we all were like, 'Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, give heaven some hell is a great line. We need to write that song.'"

The resulting song is an ode to a friend who has passed on, a friend who was a bit of a hellraiser and always moved to the beat of his own drum. "Make some thunder, make 'em wonder how you got in / Hide your beer, hide your clear from the man upstairs," Hardy sings in the chorus (via Genius). "Crank it loud, hold it down 'til I get there / And when I do I hope you got some new stories to tell / 'Til then, give heaven some hell."

This song "can be about your high school buddy or your cousin or your dad, or your brother or sister or anybody like that, that just has that wildfire spirit about them," said co-writer Ashley Gorley. "It's hard to imagine those people singing on clouds with harps and wings."

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