Rocks and Relics (Live) - Tyler Childers

Siren, My screams lose themselves amidst the raging storm I have been following your swinging tail Diving into the hazard from which we're born I was bound to be another failed commander I led my fleets towards this dead end Do you recall me, fighting for a lost cause? I have been trying to recompose the sound of your voice I built the constellations I was searching for In order to govern this unrelenting flood And discover the cliffs where you went singing your grief Now, as the depths swallow me down I can still hold on to your fading grace As a feather hanging in the balance Just for an instant that I must try to condense I'm holding the dices in my hand My fist is tight while everything falls apart You fled away staring at the ruins before you Buried underneath the crumbs of our shattered history You will keep existing as the allegory Of what we could have been Now the time has come for me to dissolve Leaving the world to the mercy Of your silver and gold Siren, My screams lose themselves amidst the raging storm I have been following your swinging tail Diving into the hazard from which we're born Even if your light abandons the world of men You will forever be the mark of what we cannot amend I could never abolish the chance of finding you again The dices are thrown.

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I have this confidence because I've seen the faithfulness of God The still inside the storm, the promise of the shore I trust the power of Your word Enough to seek Your kingdom first Beyond the barren place, beyond the ocean waves When I walk through the waters I won't be overcome When I go through the rivers I will not be drowned My God will make a way so I am not afraid You keep the promises You make There isn't one that is delayed So I will not lose heart, here I will lift my arms And start to sing into the night My praise will call the sun to rise Declare the battle won, declare that it is done When I walk through the waters I won't be overcome When I go through the rivers I will not be drowned My God will make a way so I am not afraid When I am in the fire I will not feel the flames I'll stand before the giant, declaring victory My God will make a way, so I am not afraid Before me, behind me, always beside me No shadow, no valley where you won't find me I am not afraid No, I am not afraid Before me, behind me, always beside me No shadow, no valley where you won't find me No, I am not afraid No, I am not afraid When I walk through the waters I won't be overcome When I go through the rivers I will not be drowned My God will make a way so I am not afraid I am not afraid When I am in the fire I will not feel the flames I'll stand before the giant, declaring victory My God will make a way, so I am not afraid My God will make a way, so I am not afraid No, I am not afraid No, I am not afraid

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 was born Now no more forlorn has a Creeker drank whiskey Than the one that you see out the side of your eye Drinkin' alone as he looks out the window At all of the strangers on the corner outside And he'd rather be dead than alive one more minute In this Godforsaken town When he was a kid, Lord he'd never a'dreamt it All the ways that the city can bring a country boy down Now they knew not his name and he knew not their faces And he knew not the how nor the reason for why You could ever wake up and wanna keep on a'livin' In a place where a friend was such a hard thing to find And for e'ryone ya meet there's a whole mess of people Tryin' like hell to pull you on down To the level they're on and the trouble they're tendin' In the mess that they've made in the gutter they found And he'd rather be dead than alive one more minute In this Godforsaken town When he was a kid, Lord he'd never a'dreamt it All the ways that the city can bring a country boy down Some fellas do drugs and things of that nature Some fellas chase girls to hang on their arm Some fellas get by on practically nothin' Some fellas get pissed in a small corner bar And they'd rather be dead than alive one more minute In this Godforsaken town When they were all kids, Lord they'd never a'dreamt it All the ways that the city can bring a country boy down

Works the nightshift at the depot With a pistol and a light And he guards them rustin' missiles Countin' whitetail to pass the time And he's worked there for a long while Since he came home from overseas Helping Kilcorn, fight the good fight And bring Baghdad to it's knees And it was hotter than the mountain But it weren't so ya couldn't stand And it weren't so much the heatwave Nearly as much as all the sand Now his daddy he's a log man With a good leg and fake That he got off of a buddy And a shit shot that he made And he worked them hands to splinters And he raised them youngins right On a little bit of scripture And an acreage of paradise And he'd go out on a weekend And he'd play like Clarence White If Clarence had a real job And picked the guitar when there was time Keeps a trap line in the winter Keeps a line wet in the spring On a lock wall fishin' muskie With his eldest and Steve And they swapped tales about their raisin' And they tell the awfullest lies And they go home when they've a notion And the muskie quit to bitin'

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 blow And down in the grave where they lay me low Catholic girl, pray for me You're my only hope for Heaven When I's a boy I'd drink and love and smoke and snort my fill But all the while I kept in mind the Lord's redeeming grace High on the hill where the fox horns blow And down in the city where the heathens go Catholic girl, pray for me You're my only hope for Heaven Do you reckon He lets free will boys Mope around in purgatory? I know that Hell Is just as real as I am surely breathin' But I've heard tale Of a middle ground I think will work for me When the time has come for changin' worlds I'll hedge my bets with a Catholic girl Catholic girl, pray for me You're my only hope for Heaven