 Genius Meanings
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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 – 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 – Do Side
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[Verse 1] / I couldn't get no sleep last night, had a ghost lyin' in my bed / A saltwater leak in my eyes and a memory in my head / Cool in me says, "no, I ain't," but the fool
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Eric Church – Like A Wrecking Ball
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Written by Eric Church and Casey Beathard, the song is the fourth single off Church’s top-selling 2014 album, The Outsiders.
CMT called the song “steamy, sexy and slow,” adding
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Eric Church – Broke Record
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This song is about a guy who is completely in love and hypnotized by his girlfriend. He’s annoying his friends by constantly talking about her. He’s a like a record stuck on repeat
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Eric Church – What I Almost Was
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“What I Almost Was” is a song about a guy who is in a very different place than where he originally planned on being. Now, looking back on his path through life, he’s very glad he
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Eric Church – 16th Avenue (Live At Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, TN / May 26, 2017)
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From the corners of the country, from the cities and the farms / With years and years of livin' tucked up underneath their arms / They walked away from everything, just to see a
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Eric Church – The Hard Way
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“The Hard Way” is about a guy who wishes he would have learned some lessons without having to go through all the pain to learn them. For example in the third verse he wishes he
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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 – 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 – 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 – Rock & Roll Found Me
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[Verse 1] / I was a skinny little white kid, wrong side of the track kid / "Don’t do that" kid, "What the hell is wrong with him?" kid / No, my rebel never run and my damn gave one
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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 – Knives Of New Orleans
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“Knives of New Orleans” tells the first-person story of a man on the run following the murder of his lover. As the song progresses, the speaker’s guilt evolves, to the point where
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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 – Bright Side Girl
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[Verse 1] / They say the sky won’t fall / Today I kinda wish it would / Get those old dark clouds overhead cleared out / And stop the rain for good / [Verse 2] / No, there ain’t no
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Eric Church – Alberta (Live At Scotiabank Saddledome, Calgary, AB / March 11, 2017)
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Alberta, Alberta, I've loved you so long / Alberta, Alberta, I loved you when you sang my first song / But I can tell ya that I don't give a shit about the snow on the roof / I'm
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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 – Look Good and You Know It
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[Intro] / I’d be lying if I said it didn’t hurt like hell / Wish I was blind so I couldn’t see for myself / [Verse 1] / You look good and you know it baby / Go on and own it baby
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Eric Church – The World Needs A Drink (Live At Legacy Arena At The BJCC, Birmingham, AL / February 17, 2017)
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Turned on the TV / More crime in the streets / More trouble in the Middle East / More fires out west / Politicians slingin' dirt / Got descension in the church / Another lawsuit's
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Eric Church – Break It Kind of Guy
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[Verse 1] / I woke up feelin’ dangerous, put some bullets in my gun / Brown liquor in my coffee and I called the boss’s son / I told him to tell his daddy I'm tired of his routine
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Eric Church – People Break
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[Verse 1] / Staring at the background, a heartland sky / Smoke from the mill stack turnin’ that blue white / Right here was our first time, on the hood of my car / Now it’s just a
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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 – Higher Wire
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[Verse 1] / I don't why it does but it sure do, don't it, honey? / Bein' in love with you is as easy as spendin' money / Keep me higher than the fog, it's a-hidin' my copper line-
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Eric Church – Young And Wild
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This is a song about a guy looking back on his life when he was just becoming a man. He’s saying that he wasn’t trying to hurt anyone, just trying to “be a man” and find his place
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Eric Church – Jukebox and a Bar
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[Verse 1] / They can make cars drive themselves / And prove time-travel ain't crazy as hell / They've even got a pill to make a soft package hard / But as far as we've came / When
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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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Morgan Wallen (Ft. Eric Church) – Man Made A Bar
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[Verse 1: Morgan Wallen] / I sat down on a barstool, like a dern fool / 'Cause she walked out again / Bartender said, "I got you, yeah, 'cause I, too / Have been in your boots, my
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Eric Church – Hangin' Around
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[Verse 1] / How you spin, hit the door, and get myself on down the road / I picked my clothes up off the floor and on the wind I go / Let it blow me where the wild is, thought I
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Eric Church – Jenny
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[Verse 1] / Come on, Jenny, let’s go, Jenny / Let’s blow this popcorn stand / Come on, there’s the road, Jenny / Jenny, let me be your man / [Verse 2] / Come on, Jenny, let’s roll
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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 – 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 – Heart of the Night
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[Verse 1] / Come on, let’s go, baby, don’t even pack / This town feels like a cage and honey, I’m not made like that / I can see the maybe in the jasmine of your eye / I’m a Roman
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