 Genius Meanings
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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 – Feathered Indians
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[Verse 1] / Well my buckle makes impressions / On the inside of her thigh / There are little feathered Indians / Where we tussled through the night / If I'd known she was religious
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Tyler Childers – In Your Love (Live From Radio City Music Hall)
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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, oh, but I can grin and bear it / 'Cause I know
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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 – 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 – 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 – Her and the Banks
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[Verse 1] / Hair like the sun and eyes just as green / As the ridge line we'd walk, scannin' the trees / For the wave of a tail, a shake of the leaves / Lord, I'd give the whole
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 (Ft. The Highwall) – Shake the Frost
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In this song Tyler uses multiple mental images to compare himself to a situation where you would “shake the frost”. First, he describes a beautiful forrest and compares his love to
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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 – 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 – 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 – Detroit
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Readin' and writin' on Route 23 / It's hard to believe we've made it this far / So come on boys and grab your coats / Detroit's waitin' so get in the car / Well the wind it blows
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Tyler Childers – Oneida
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[Verse 1] / Back before birthdays were something she dreads / Back before children had settled her friends / Back when the radio spoke to her heart / Oh girls, they wanna have fun
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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 – 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 – 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 – Hard Times
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I bought a house at the mouth of the holler, a ring at the pawn shop, and a crib for the kid / I heard some word there was work up in Hindman / I'm going tomorrow and hope that
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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 – A Song While You're Away
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[Verse 1] / Up in your nephew's room playing on his cousin's guitar / I wrote a song for you / You have done drove off with everything I need / My box and my tumbleweed / [Pre-
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Tyler Childers – We've Had Our Fun
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I need some money / I need it now / Give me a trunk load / And I'll show you how / We'll take that shinin' in no time / We'll be rollin' in the dough / But you don't take nothin
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Tyler Childers – Rocks and Relics (Live)
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[Verse 1] / Shovelin' in the overhangs / Siftin' off most my days / For a B-1 bomber that'll blow your mind / Listen for the sound of glass / Huntin' someone else's knap / For a B-
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Tyler Childers – Woodward Creek
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[Verse 1] / I've ran around / And I've seen a thing or two / Leave that highway black and blue / With the will beneath my feet / And I can tell ya now / Them girls and the whole
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Tyler Childers – Lady May (Reimagined)
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[Verse 1] / I'm a stone's throw from the mill / And I'm a good walk to the river / When my workin' day is over / We'll go swim our cares away / Put your toes down in the water
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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 – Tattoos
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I am now the one she left / A haunted tale for someone else / A little bit about herself / Wherever she is sleeping / Flint strikes out to pierce the dark / Cause a flame from just
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