 Genius Lyrics
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Tyler Childers – In Your Love
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[Verse 1] / I will wait for you / 'Til the sun turns into ashes / And bows down to the moon / I will wait for you / It's a long hard war / Ah, but I can grin and bear it / 'Cause I
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Tyler Childers – Long Violent History
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[Verse 1] / It's the worst that it's been since the last time it happened / It's happening again right in front of our eyes / There's updated footage, wild speculation / Tall tales
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Tyler Childers – Angel Band (Hallelujah Version)
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[Intro] / Hallelujah / Jubilee / Hallelujah / Jubilee / [Verse 1] / He stands behind the pulpit / He's callin' out a line / Responds to congregation / Just a little ways behind
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Tyler Childers – Purgatory
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Will you pray for me / When the roots of the oak / And my ribcage are braidin’ / If I can think / Lord knows that I will fondly pray for you / High on the hill where the fox horns
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Tyler Childers – Rustin' In The Rain
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[Verse 1] / I have gee'd and haw'd / Myself into a tizzy / I am yearnin' for the turnin' / In the most peculiar way / Blame it on my jeans / Caked in tenant farmin' / But I can't
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Tyler Childers (Ft. The Highwall) – Charleston Girl
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Charleston girl in a darkened room / And you don't know her like I do / We took the fire escape to her room / And got stone-raging blind / Left my money in the trusting hands / Of
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Tyler Childers – Jane
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[Verse 1] / Well she don't like it when I ain't sober / And I can't say that I blame her / I don't see how she takes it, boys / I don't how she takes it / And she done told me that
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Tyler Childers – Silence
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Oh Rosie, Rosie my girl / When our embrace is over / All that's left is the world / It's a mighty cold town / To be wanderin' around / Without Rosie my girl / The floor is about to
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Tyler Childers – Lady May
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“Lady May” is a love song written by Tyler Childers to his now-wife fellow Kentucky singer/songwriter Senora May.
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Tyler Childers – Universal Sound
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Up in Pocahontas in the Cranberry Glades / Ain’t got bars, nor the charge to call her anyways / My mind’s a mile a minute / And my thoughts they bark like hounds / I focus on my
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Tyler Childers – Phone Calls and Emails
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[Verse 1] / Hello, good morning / I hope you've slept well / I hope that my message gets through / It's so unnervin', to get no reply / To the phone calls and emails / I'm sendin
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Tyler Childers – Banded Clovis
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A story about two junkies who go digging in the hillsides in search of treasure. One finds a Clovis point, a prehistoric tool used by the Clovis people as spear points, arrow
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Tyler Childers – All Your'n
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[Verse 1] / Drivin' through the road work, oh, the work they took forever on / The road cones blur like mem'ries of the miles we shared between / The place you learned to say your
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Tyler Childers – Help Me Make It Through the Night
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[Verse 1] / Take the ribbon from your hair / Shake it loose and let it fall / Dancin' soft against my skin / Like the shadows on the wall / Come and lay down by my side / 'Til the
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Tyler Childers – Born Again
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Once I was a dying breed / Chewin’ on an ancient leaf / Before we took the notion / To keep up with the times / And leave ‘em all behind / Chisel to the paper / Tattoos on the
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Tyler Childers – Luke 2:8-10
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[Intro] / Luke Chapter 2 Verses 8-10 / And there were in the same country shepherds abidin' in the field / Keepin' watch over their flock by night / And, lo, the angel of the Lord
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Tyler Childers (Ft. The Highwall) – Deadman's Curve
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You can go to hell, my dear / You'd probably like it better there / With all them boys who thought they could make it / Deadman's curve gonna lay them down / All the things you put
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Tyler Childers – Whitehouse Road
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[Verse 1] / Early in the mornin' when the sun does rise / Layin' in the bed with bloodshot eyes / Late in the evenin' when the sun sinks low / That's about time my rooster crows
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Tyler Childers – Percheron Mules
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[Chorus] / Mammoth Jacks and Percheron mares / Grazin' up and down my dreams / Nothin' less than sixteen hands / I don't wanna drag my feet / Anythin' more small than that / It ain
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Tyler Childers – Gemini
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[Verse 1] / If He knows how it feels to be Beginnin' and the End / I reckon He knows the feelin' 'tween the now and then / I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place, friend / Lord
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Tyler Childers – Jane
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[Verse 1] / Well she don't like it when I ain't sober / And I can't say that I blame her / I don't see how she takes it, boys / I don't how she takes it / And she done told me that
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Tyler Childers – Heart You've Been Tendin' (Hallelujah Version)
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[Intro] / All that you'll take / All that you'll take / All that you'll take / All that you'll take is the heart you've been tendin' / [Verse 1] / Ain't no way to fake it, no way
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Tyler Childers – Country Squire
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[Verse 1] / Well tonight, I'm up in Chillicothe / Down-wind from the paper mill / I'm out here spittin' on the sidewalk / Taking in the factory smells / Head and nose, she tends to
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Tyler Childers – Adam
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[Verse 1] / If you won't pull the trigger / Will you lay that pistol down? / 'Cause you're scaring me to death / The way you twirl that thing around / And if you're restless for
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Tyler Childers – Creeker
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[Verse 1] / In a small corner bar, he sits there a-drinkin' / Lost as a ball in a field full of corn / Further away than he ever imagined / That he'd ever end up from the place he
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Tyler Childers – Space and Time
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[Chorus] / I never wanna leave this world / Without sayin', "I love you" / Without sayin' what you mean to me / You know you make me happy / Oh, when we, share this space and time
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Tyler Childers – Coming Down
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Don't you wish that you could go back sometimes / Don't you wish that you could go back home / Tryin' to remember just where it was / Remember you ain't alone / Remember you ain't
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Tyler Childers – Nose on the Grindstone
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A lament of an East Kentucky son who can’t seem to follow the life advice of his coal miner father despite trying. Thematically, it honors the cultural advice each generation of
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Tyler Childers – Follow You to Virgie
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The song is about his friend’s grandmother. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFL5QcYDnmw
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Tyler Childers – Going Home
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[Verse 1] / Police are piddlin' / Pullin' people over for nothing but a boring night / With nothin' to do / And my eyes are wide / And my hands are kinda shakin' from some trouble
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Tyler Childers – Matthew
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[Verse 1] / He works the night shift at the depot / With a pistol and a light / And he guards them rusty missiles / Counting whitetail to pass the time / And he's worked there for
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Tyler Childers – Purgatory (Hallelujah Version)
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[Verse 1] / Will you pray for me / When the roots of the oak and my ribcage are braidin'? / If I can think / Lord knows that I will fondly pray for you / High on the hill where the
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Tyler Childers – Out On A Drunk
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[Verse 1] / I was out on a drunk / I was wild enough to shoot at / Too high to hit / Too low to try / Try as I may / Have good intentions / Natural-born heathens / Love backslider'
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Tyler Childers – Peace of Mind
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[Verse 1] / He drinks orange juice and vodka / In the basement while she's talking / To someone long distance for hours and hours on end / And as he's slowly sippin', he thinks
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Tyler Childers – Ever Lovin’ Hand
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[Verse 1] / They got my favorite lotion here / Something in a hotel I admire / I got the pictures that you sent me / And how they fill me with desire / Tonight, we've all got our
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Tyler Childers – Long Hard Road
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Church bells ring at your window and I know that all of these things / Are surely found to be holy in the presence of the Lord / Tell me all that you’re feeling and I will believe
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Tyler Childers – Honky Tonk Flame
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I was out of my mind the first night we met / I was feeling lonely and blue / I'd just moved to the country to get me some rest / The city can put a hurtin' on you / Especially a
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Tyler Childers – Two Coats (Jubilee Version)
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[Verse 1] / Two coats laid before me, an old and the new / And I could have either of them 'less I do / One coat was ugly and terribly torn / The other, a new one and never been
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Tyler Childers – Coal
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Now God made coal for the men who sold their lives to West Van Lear / And you keep on diggin' 'til you get down there where it's darker than your darkest fears / And that woman in
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Tyler Childers – House Fire
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[Chorus] / You can set my house on fire, baby / You can turn it into cinder and smoke / 'Cause this house is mighty cold and I feel like / Melting all the snow away / [Verse 1
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Tyler Childers (Ft. The Food Stamps) – Honest Work
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[Verse 1] / Let's pack our bags and go to Florida for the winter / And meet ourselves some real nice folks / A little on the older side / And little on hope / We'll hold their
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Tyler Childers – Bus Route
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[Verse 1] / This is where we dropped off the prettiest little girl / Same grade as me / Tried to kiss her once in the aisle of the bus / And she walked right over me / Face-down in
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Tyler Childers – 22nd Winter
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[Verse 1] / Levi's been in the yard all day / Digging at a mound of snow / See how the winter's taken good ol' boys / And turned 'em into Eskimos / I ain't ever smoked in an Igloo
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Tyler Childers – Way of the Triune God (Hallelujah Version)
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[Chorus: Tyler Childers & The Food Stamps] / Give me that old time screamin' and a-shoutin' / Go up, tell it on the mountain / Faith too strong to be left doubtin' / Way of the
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