Tyler Childers - Snipe Hunt (Audio)

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Lyrics:

I flung the door open and let the heat rise

To heat up the world cause I thought it was mine

And all the while all my plants froze inside

Cause there’s only so much to go round

And I took me some tries and a whole lot of kindlin’

But when the lesson arrived it only took me a minute

To learn there was some things better off freezing

I can name you a few that I’ve found

Hate is a thing that can poison your veins

And get in your eyes when you’re sweating on stage

Shifting around for a clock on the wall

To tell you it’s almost over

Vans they keep rollin’ and times for the birds

To chirp in your ear on the rumors they heard

Flyin’ above all the good in this world

Shittin’ on cattle and clover

Now when I was a young boy I thought I could track

And an old timer sat down and wretched me this sack

And he told me all the knowledge I lacked

On an ornery thing called a snipe

Picked me up on a Friday and he dropped me and Charlie

Told me when he’d be back and he went off to party

And I sat on the hill like Jeremiah Johnson

I froze my dumb ass off all night

That’s the way that I feel when I look at our past

And the handshakes that you gave me if you’re callin’ them that

And the snickers you tried to pass off as laughs

And the way your eyes never met mine

Paranoia is a thing that you’re making when sleep

Ain’t a thing you recall ain’t a habit you keep

One ol boys nightmare is another folks dream

It’s all in the way that you hold her

Hotels are lonely I reckon I know

I spent many a night in between shoes

Lookin’ at paint as it dried on the wall

On a booger you just painted over

Life reminds me of a card game we played as a kid

Where you’re layin’ down the deck until you got to the end

Early on there’s a joker got lost ‘neath the fridge

Over time all the queens moved in with him

And I’d say the boy had him an absolute ball

But he ruined the card game for all us involved

And I let it take me over like kudzu in Georgia

And I hope don’t do that again

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