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Tyler Childers – Rock Salt And Nails lyrics
By the banks of the river
Where the willows hang down
The wild birds they warble
With a low moanin' sound

Way down in the hollow
Where the river runs cold
It was there I first listened
To the lies that you told

Now I lie on my back
And I see your sweet face
The past I remember
Time can't erase


And the letters you wrote me
They were written in shame

And I know that your conscience
Still echoes my name

Now if the ladies were blackbirds
If the ladies were thrushes
Well I'd lie there for hours
In the chilly cold marshes

And if the women were squirrels
With them high bushy tails
Well I'd load up my shotgun
With rock salt and nails

I'd load up my shotgun
With rock salt and nails
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Rock Salt And Nails meanings

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    "Now I lie on my back... can't erase"
    He still can't help but think of her fondly in a venerable way.
    "And the letters you wrote.... echoes my name"
    He feels like she was embarrassed to tell people they were together, but he knows deep down she still thinks of him and what she did haunts her.
    "Now if ladies were back birds...chilly cold marshes"
    He's a glutton for punishment he'd rather be with her or someone similar and uncomfortable/in pain.
    "If the women were squirrels... Rock salt and nails"
    He doesn't want soft sweet women because he would hurt them the way she did him.
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    This is how I interpreted it.
    From "by the banks...to "low moan'in sounds"
    Looking back on where our relationship began, with a sad heart.

    "Way down in the hollow... Lies that you told"
    That's pretty self explanatory, where he first believed all the sweet nothings

    "Now I lie on my back.............
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