Songfacts®:

• Tyler Childers' music is influenced by his home state of Kentucky and its connection to country music and bluegrass. He often writes about coal mining, which was his father's occupation, and its effects. This tender romantic ballad is about a love that Childers waits for, works for and battles for.
  
  Childers will work until his "hands are tired and bleeding," and won't give up. He knows that the love he is fighting for is worth it, and he is determined to win.
• Childers' love interest is gender neutral throughout the song, but the music video illuminates the lyrics with its portrayal of a romance between two male Appalachian coal miners in the 1950s. The two men face the fear of homophobic violence from their community, but they are determined to be together. They eventually leave their jobs at the coal mine and start their own farm in a Kentucky holler.
• The singer took inspiration from his family's history in the mining industry and his older gay cousin who grew up in Northern Kentucky and is like a brother to him. "He graduated from Northern Kentucky, went to Chicago and never came back," Childers explained to NPR. "He taught me so much about singing; he was my first tough critic. And just thinking about him not having a music video on CMT that spoke to him."
• Childers teamed up with fellow Kentuckian and author Silas House to produce the music video for "In Your Love." House, who was named Kentucky Poet Laureate by Governor Beshear in 2023, contributed to the concept and creative guidance for the visual, alongside his husband Jason Kyle Howard. Bryan Schlam directed the clip, which features openly gay Hollywood actors Colton Haynes and James Scully in leading roles.
• Childers wrote "In Your Love" alongside Kentucky singer-songwriter Geno Seale. He produced it with his backing band, The Food Stamps.