I Should Go to Church Sometime

Album: single release only (2017)
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  • Brinley Addington, Michael Hardy and Sarah Turner penned this introspective song, in which Tyler Farr reflects about how he's always at mass on Christmas and Easter, but really should "wipe that dust off my Bible more than once or twice a year."
  • Tyler Farr is best known for songs with a cheating and/or drinking theme. "Redneck Crazy," "Whiskey in My Water" and "A Guy Walks Into a Bar" have all been hits for him in the past. This track has a totally different subject matter.

    "I'm not exactly known for walking the straight and narrow," Farr admitted, "but I have a strong conscience and I was taught right from wrong."

    "It's something that we all face at some point," he added. "What am I going to do? How am I going to act? What am I going to do today that's different from yesterday? That decision is what this song is all about."
  • Farr explained to The Boot why he chose to record this song:

    "I'm a songwriter first and foremost - I had a publishing deal before I was an artist - so I love listening to songs. Most of them I don't even write; I just like listening to great music. I'll hear a song [and I'm like], 'Send that to me - I want to hear it!' So I'll drive around in my truck and listen to songs.

    I'll take a lot of pitch meeting, and - even though I'm a writer myself, that's why I respect songwriters and songwriting so much - and I was in a pitch meeting and heard 'I Should Go to Church Sometime,' and it spoke to me. That's kind of how I go about picking my songs... if it speaks to me, then it's going to speak to other people, too.

    I like to try to cut stuff that's real and stuff that people can relate to, and this song is pretty much about conviction and making yourself better the next day than you were today, and saying, 'You know what, I can be doing a lot more for other people than service myself,' and that's the basis of it."
  • Tyler Farr married his long-time girlfriend, Hannah Freeman, on October 10, 2016 and he admitted that his new domestic arrangements had caused him to slow down and switch up his style a little bit.

    "Most of my songs, obviously, have been about walking into a bar, whiskey in my water, redneck crazy. So this is a little different," he told The Boot, "and I wanted to change it up. I got married last fall ... it slows things down, and this song is a little different and kinda hits on a different note than I have before."

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