Songwriters want to 'Shatter the Madness' in US

Together, Tom Douglas and Allen Shamblin wrote one of the most revered country hits in recent memory: Miranda Lambert's "The House That Built Me."

With their new project, "Shatter the Madness," the Nashville songwriters are trying to build something else: hope. And the belief that the people of a divided nation can start to find common ground.

"Madness" is a series of four songs and videos, co-written by the duo and performed by Douglas. The final song will be released digitally on July 22, and it's not a coincidence that it drops between the Republican and Democratic National Conventions.

“In the technological age in which we find ourselves, we’ve never been more connected, but we’ve never been more disconnected,” Douglas said in one of the clips.

Story Behind the Song: 'The House That Built Me'

“We can get very isolated, and when you get isolated, that’s when really terrible things happen to us as a society, and we get divided. It almost becomes the Divided States of America, instead of the United States of America."

The final song is also the project's title track, a rock-leaning anthem in which Douglas proclaims, "Only love is a hammer strong enough to shatter the madness.”

Hope has been under attack, Shamblin said.

"There’s been the temptation to despair, when you see so much instability in the world, and so much chaos, and so much pretending that it’s not happening," he said. "I feel like we’re medicating ourselves with media, with materialism, with whatever to distract us from the extreme pain we’re in as a nation.”

Douglas and Shamblin are both members of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Individually, they've been responsible for the likes of “I Can’t Make You Love Me,” "Grown Men Don't Cry" and other hits.

All "Shatter the Madness" songs and videos can be found at Douglas' website, tomdouglasmusic.com, as well as iTunes and YouTube.