"Desperate Man" is a song recorded by American country music singer Eric Church.
Written by Church and Ray Wylie Hubbard, the song is the title track and lead single from his sixth studio album of the same name.
Church presented the opening line, about a fortune teller who tells a man that he "has no future", from which Hubbard developed more lyrics and the song's groove.
Church also noted that much of the song's emotion, along with its message of showing hope even when one is feeling troubled, were inspired by the 2017 Las Vegas shooting.
[3] In the music video, which also features Hubbard in a cameo, Church gets "busted" by FBI agents whose uniforms read EMI, the name of his record label.