 Genius Lyrics
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Eric Church – Russian Roulette
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[Verse 1] / Yeah, I’m blowin’ the doors off this hang-around town / Holdin’ this old gun-metal gray Chevrolet pedal down / Lead foot in a steel-toe / Outrunnin’ the memories
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Eric Church – Crazyland
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[Verse 1] / Let me take your hat friend, tell me what's the matter / 'Round here, folks call me the Mad Hatter / That's Sad in the corner with his heart on his sleeve / Talking to
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Eric Church – Some of It
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[Verse 1] / Beer don't keep, love's not cheap / And trucks don't wreck themselves / Mama ain't a shrink, daddy ain't a bank / And God ain't a wishin' well / Money ain't rich
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Eric Church – Bad Mother Trucker
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[Verse 1] / She drove an '81 Peterbilt 18-wheeler / Jet black with pink mud flaps / It was a mean piece of metal with lightning in the pedal / Thunder comin' out the back / [Verse
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Eric Church – Through My Ray-Bans
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[Verse 1] / Yeah, I know a place where kings and paupers / Drink with the dreamers and the cheaters and the lawyers / And the dealers deal aces from a loaded stack of cards / Now
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Eric Church – Talladega
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Eric Church and Luke Laird co-wrote “Talladega” after watching NASCAR on TV. It is the fourth single from Chruch’s fourth studio album, The Outsiders, and was released to radio on
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Eric Church – Record Year
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This is a heart breaker, but it’s less about love lost and more about what the break-up provided: a chance to renew a lasting love affair with great music.
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Eric Church – Hell of a View
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[Verse 1] / I was no daddy's dream, was not your mama's prayer / But I was your first and your last ticket out of there / I caught your wings on fire when I smoked my Bronco tires
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Eric Church – Give Me Back My Hometown
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“Give Me Back My Hometown” by Eric Church and Luke Laird appears on Church’s 2014 album, The Outsiders.
This is a heartbreak song, disguised as a reminiscence.
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Eric Church – Never Break Heart
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[Verse 1] / People say it’s a crime for bringing a life into the world these days / It’s cold, it’s a load, it’s a heavy stone that the heart can’t take / Well, hurt’s gonna keep
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Eric Church – These Boots
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“These Boots” is a metaphorical song about a guy who blames his stubbornness on the pair of boots that have been with him through all the stupid things he’s done.
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Eric Church – Lightning
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“Lightning” is a song that comes from the final thoughts of a man about to be executed for the murder of a boy who worked in a liquor store. Over the course of the song, the man’s
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Eric Church – Desperate Man
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[Intro] / Boo, boo, boo-boo-boo-boo-boo / Boo, boo, boo-boo-boo-boo-boo / Boo, boo, boo-boo-boo-boo-boo / [Verse 1] / I've seen the Joshua Tree / Got down on my knees / Threw the
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Eric Church – Devil, Devil
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The piece is in two parts. The first part is a poem written by Church about how making it in Nashville is like selling your soul to the devil because she can give you millions or
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Eric Church – Doing Life with Me
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[Verse 1] / It ain't easy puttin' up with / A road dog with a cup with / A little Jack in it / You talk about the backseat / I don't know, don't ask me / How she sat in it / [Pre-
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Eric Church – Jolene (Live At Spokane Arena, Spokane, WA / March 17, 2017)
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Cocaine flame in my bloodstream / Sold my coat when I hit Spokane / I bought myself a hard pack of cigarettes / In the early mornin' rain / Lately, my hands they don't feel like
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Eric Church – Sundown (Live At Rexall Place, Edmonton, AB / March 10, 2017)
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I can see her layin' back in her satin dress / In a room where you do what ya don't confess / Sundown you better take care / If I find you creepin' 'round my back stairs / Sundown
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Eric Church – Carolina
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This song is about how Eric feels about his home state of North Carolina and how it brings him back to Earth when he goes there to get away from his crazy life on the road. That’s
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Eric Church – Holdin' My Own
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This is a song about how Church has changed since he got a family: he’s matured in fatherhood. He explains that he’ll was always a little bit wild in his heart, but he’s learned
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Eric Church – Heart on Fire
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[Verse 1] / Roosevelt Road was too rough for my old truck / Yeah, she’d shake and she’d shimmy like Elvis singin’ “All Shook Up” / You can’t blame a boy for going drive-it-like-you
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Eric Church – Round Here Buzz
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“Round Here Buzz” is about a guy from a small town who gets a buzz from being in his small town and living the small town life. He thinks of his old lover who left the town for the
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Eric Church – Why Not Me
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This is Eric Church’s tribute to the victims of the mass shooting in Las Vegas. It was a country concert in which the people that were targeted were attending. The attack took
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Eric Church – Heart Like a Wheel
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[Verse 1] / She's caviar and mascara / I'm corduroy and leather / It'd take one hell of an imagination / To ever paint us together / [Verse 2] / Places I like to haunt at / She
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Eric Church – Monsters
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[Verse 1] / I killed my first monster when I was seven years old / He melted like butter in my bathroom's sixty-watt bulb / Kept a three-cell MagLite from Daddy's workshop drawer
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Eric Church (Ft. Rhiannon Giddens) – Kill A Word
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“Kill A Word” is an elaborate play on words about the negative words that can ruin a person’s life.
The song focuses on the act of killing words, as if you could expunge a word
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Eric Church – Stick That in Your Country Song
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[Verse 1] / Take me on up to Detroit City / Jails are full, the factories empty / Mama's crying, young boys dying / Under that red, white, and blue still flying / Drop me off in
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Eric Church – Mr. Misunderstood
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Mr. Misunderstood is a song with an older person talking to a young kid. It’s never made clear, but it’s possible this is the protagonist talking to a younger version of himself
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Eric Church – Drink In My Hand
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[Verse 1] / Early Monday morning to Friday at five / Man, I work work work but I don't climb climb climb / Boss man can shove that over time up his can / All I wanna do is put a
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Eric Church – Springsteen
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Taken from his 2011 album ‘Chief’, the song was originally centered around a memory of a girl and another one’s song, but it centers around Bruce Springsteen and tells the story of
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Eric Church – The Snake
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[Verse 1] / Rattlesnake said to the copperhead / "You give us vipers a real bad name" / You prey on the weakest, fight for no reason / No wonder we get blamed" / Copperhead laughed
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Eric Church – Where I Wanna Be
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[Verse 1] / Flew to California, drove to Alabam’ / Hitched to Wichita, caught a ride in a van / Paddled in a boat and pedaled on a bike / I’ve walked, I’ve swum, I’ve crawled, I’ve
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Eric Church – Kiss Her Goodbye
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[Verse 1] / Yeah, the thing that haunts me like a ghost / Is the little things and it ain't close / You'd think that after all this time / I wouldn't need to drink her off my mind
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Eric Church (Ft. Susan Tedeschi) – Mixed Drinks About Feelings
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It’s a simple song about a guy and a gal who are alone now, and missing each other. They’re both drinking away the pain, just in different places.
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Eric Church – Drowning Man
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[Verse 1] / Don't tell me about no beach / Don't wanna hear about your mountain / How the good life is a peach / You drink your sunsets from a fountain / No, I don't wanna think
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Eric Church – Over When It's Over
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And her name might as well be Independence.
Some believe this is the perfect break up song. This song is about a guy who is going through a break up and while talking with his ex
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Eric Church – Mad Man
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[Verse 1] / He's a modern day Jekyll and Hyde / Mixin' pride with the cold hard facts / Starin' awful hard at a picture on a bar / Of a girl that he won't get back / He's talkin
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Eric Church – Chattanooga Lucy
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This is a song about a guy who is driven crazy by a certain woman whenever he sees her. She can’t be tamed but he can’t live without her.
While the lyrics don’t give a good hint
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Eric Church – Smoke a Little Smoke
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This song is about how Eric feels when he smokes marijuana. It was a song that he was urged not to release as a single but he rebelled and did it anyways. It was a major hit for
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Eric Church – The Joint
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A play on lighting up a marijuana joint. Here the joint that gets lit is a bar. Moma burned down the local hang out so papa would spend time with his family. The song closes with
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Eric Church – Homeboy
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Homeboy is a story about a guy pleading to a kin of his too quit being stubborn and chasing material things. At the end of the day the things he’s going to want are the simple
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Eric Church – I'm Gettin' Stoned
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“I’m Gettin' Stoned” by Eric Church, Jeff Hyde, Casey Beathard and Jeremy Crady appears on Chruch’s 2011 album, Chief.
She once was his, but now she’s married someone else. Good
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Eric Church – The Outsiders
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Eric has said this song is about his ambition to remain on the outside of the Country music Genre. Something he has maintained throughout his music career.
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Eric Church – Solid
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[Verse 1] / And I don't own nothin' new / I might look like a mess to you / But I'm solid / [Verse 2] / This ol' thing I drive around / Got some rust, makes some funny sounds / But
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Eric Church – Cold One
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This song is about a guy whose lover walks out on him and takes one of his cold beers in the process. Eric Church uses a play on words by saying “That was a cold one” at points in
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Eric Church – Without You Here
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This song is about a fellow who feels everything changed when his woman left him. It’s about feeling completely empty and without purpose without the one you love.
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