Trying To Love You

Album: Look (2005)
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Songfacts®:

  • Beth Nielsen Chapman is one of the songwriters behind Faith Hill's 1998 hit "This Kiss," a blissful country-pop tune about the honeymoon phase of a romance. On her 2005 album, Look, Chapman wanted to explore love from all different angles: the good, the bad, and the ugly. The weary ballad "Trying To Love You," co-written by her longtime collaborator Bill Lloyd, covers all facets at once.

    "'Trying To Love You' is a song about, really, all the aspects of love in one relationship," she told the ezine Pure Music in 2005. "So I thought it was intriguing to write a song about a relationship that's very destructive, where two people kind of crash into each other and it ain't so healthy."
  • The idea for the song came quickly, but Chapman and Lloyd had trouble bringing it to fruition until they got some outside help. She explained to Nu Country TV: "We wrote it in one day but didn't have lines between trying to love you. Once it was restructured at the suggestion of my co-producer Peter Collins it fell into place."
  • Trisha Yearwood recorded this for her 2005 album, Jasper County, and released it as a single.
  • In the year leading up to the release of Look, Chapman's seventh studio album, she toured extensively throughout the UK and built a fanbase there. As a result, the album was her first release to chart in the UK, where it peaked at #63.

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