Hozier Ltrics

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"Angel Of Small Death & The Codeine Scene" I watch the work of my kin bold and boyful Toying somewhere between love and abuse Calling to join them the wretched and joyful Shaking the wings of their terrible youths Freshly disowned in some frozen devotion No more alone or myself could I be Looks like a strain to the arms it were open No shortage of sordid, no protest from me [Chorus:] With her sweetened breath, and her tongue so mean She's the angel of small death and the codeine scene With her straw-blonde hair, her arms hard and lean She's the angel of small death and the codeine scene Feeling more human and hooked on her flesh I Lay my heart down with the rest at her feet Fresh from the fields, all feeder and fertile It's bloody and raw, but I swear it is sweet [Chorus] And lease this confusion, I'll wander the concrete Wonder if better now having survived Jarring of judgement and reasons defeat The sweet heat of her breath in my mouth I'm alive [Chorus x2]

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"Angel Of Small Death & The Codeine Scene"I watch the work of my kin bold and boyfulToying somewhere between love and abuseCalling to join them the wretched and joyfulShaking the wings of their terrible youthsFreshly disowned in some frozen devotionNo more alone or myself could I beLooks like a strain to the arms it were oenNo shortage of sordid! no rotest from me[Chorus:]"ith her sweetened breath! and her tongue so meanShe#s the angel of small death and the codeine scene"ith her straw$blonde hair! her arms hard and leanShe#s the angel of small death and the codeine sceneFeeling more human and hooked on her %esh ILay my heart down with the rest at her feetFresh from the &elds! all feeder and fertileIt#s bloody and raw! but I swear it is sweet[Chorus]'nd lease this confusion! I#ll wander the concrete"onder if better now having survived(arring of judgement and reasons defeatThe sweet heat of her breath in my mouth I#m alive[Chorus x2]"Jackie And Wilson"So tired trying to see from behind the red in my eyes!No better version of me I could retend to be tonight)So dee in this swill with the most familiar of swineFor reasons wretched and divine)She blows outta nowhere! roman candle of the wildLaughing away through my feeble disguiseNo other version of me I would rather be tonight)'nd! Lord! she found me just in time#Cause with my mid$youth crisis all said and doneI need to be youthfully felt #cause! *od! I never felt youngShe#s gonna save me!Call me +baby! +,un her hands through my hairShe#ll know me crazy!Soothe me daily-etter yet she wouldn#t care"e#ll steal her Le.us!-e detectives!,ide round icking u clues"e#ll name our children(ackie and "ilson!,aise #em on rhythm and blues)Lord! it be great to &nd a lace we could escae sometime/e and my Isis growing black irises in the sunshine0very version of me dead and buried in the yard outside)Sit back and watch the world go by)1ay to lie back watch it burn and rust"e tried the world! good *od! it wasn#t for us)She#s gonna save me!Call me +baby! +,un her hands through my hairShe#ll know me crazy!Soothe me daily-etter yet she wouldn#t care"e#ll steal her Le.us!-e detectives!,ide round icking u clues"e#ll name our children(ackie and "ilson!,aise #em on rhythm and blues)Cut clean from the dream at night let my mind resetLooking u from the cigarette! and she#s already leftI start digging u the yard of what#s left of me and our little vignetteFor whatever oor soul is coming ne.tShe#s gonna save me!Call me +baby! +,un her hands through my hairShe#ll know me crazy!Soothe me daily-etter yet she wouldn#t care"e#ll steal her Le.us!-e detectives!,ide round icking u clues"e#ll name our children(ackie and "ilson!,aise #em on rhythm and blues)"Someone New"2on#t take this the wrong way!3ou knew who I was with every ste that I ran to you!4nly blue or black days!0lecting strange erfections in any stranger I choose)"ould things be easier if there was a right way51oney! there is no right way)'nd so I fall in love just a little! oh a little bit every day with someone newI fall in love just a little! oh a little bit every day with someone newI fall in love just a little! oh a little bit every day with someone newI fall in love just a little! oh a little bit every day with someone newThere#s an art to life#s distractions!To somehow escae the burning weight! the art of scraing through!Some like to imagine!The dark caress of someone else! I guess any thrill will do"ould things be easier if there was a right way51oney! there is no right way)'nd so I fall in love just a little! oh a little bit every day with someone newI fall in love just a little! oh a little bit every day with someone newI fall in love just a little! oh a little bit every day with someone newI fall in love just a little! oh a little bit every day with someone newI wake at the &rst cringe of morning!'nd my heart#s already sinned)1ow ure! how sweet a love! 'retha! that you would ray for him)#Cause *od knows I fall in love just a little! oh! a little bit every day with someone newI fall in love just a little! oh a little bit every day with someone newI fall in love just a little! oh a little bit every day with someone newI fall in love just a little! oh a little bit every day with someone newI fall in love just a little! oh a little bit every day with someone newI fall in love just a little! oh a little bit every dayLove with every stranger! the stranger the betterLove with every stranger! the stranger the betterLove with every stranger! the stranger the betterLove with every stranger! the stranger the betterLove with every stranger! the stranger the betterLove with every stranger! the stranger the betterI fall in love just a little! oh a little bit every day with someone new[Repeat 'til end]"To Be Alone"Never feel too good in crowds!"ith folks around! when they#re layingThe anthems of rae culture loud!Crude and roud creatures baying'll I#ve ever done is hideFrom our times when you#re near me1oney! when you kill the lights! and kiss my eyesI feel like a erson for a moment of my life-ut you don#t know what hell you ut me throughTo have someone kiss the skin that crawls from youTo feel your weight in arms I#d never useIt#s the *od that heroin rays toIt feels good! girl! it feels good [x3]4h to be alone with youThere are 6uestions I can#t askNow at last the worst is overSee the way you hold yourself,eel against your body#s bordersI know that you hate this laceNot a trace of me would argue1oney! we should run away! oh someday4ur baby and her momma'nd the damaged love she makes-ut I don#t know what else that I would doThan try to kiss the skin that crawls from youThan feel your weight in arms I#d never useIt#s the *od that heroin rays toIt feels good! girl! it feels good [x3]4h to be alone with you"From den"-abe! there#s something tragic about youSomething so magic about you2on#t you agree5-abe! there#s something lonesome about youSomething so wholesome about you*et closer to meNo tired sighs! no rolling eyes! no ironyNo #who cares#! no vacant stares! no time for me1oney! you#re familiar like my mirror years agoIdealism sits in rison! chivalry fell on its swordInnocence died screaming! honey! ask me I should knowI slithered here from 0den just to sit outside your door-abe! there#s something wretched about thisSomething so recious about this[Live version inclusion:Where to beginBabe, there's soething bro!en about thisBut " ight be hoping about this#]4h! what a sinTo the strand a icnic lan for you and me' roe in hand for your other man to hang from a tree1oney! you#re familiar like my mirror years agoIdealism sits in rison! chivalry fell on its swordInnocence died screaming! honey! ask me I should knowI slithered here from 0den just to sit outside your door1oney! you#re familiar like my mirror years agoIdealism sits in rison! chivalry fell on its swordInnocence died screaming! honey! ask me I should knowI slithered here from 0den just to hide outside your door"!n A Week""feat# $aren Cowle%&I have never known eace like the dam grass that yields to meI have never known hunger like these insects that feast on me' thousand teeth and yours among them! I know4ur hungers aeased! our heart beats becoming slow"e#ll lay here for years or for hoursThrown here or found! to freeze or to thawSo long! we#d become the %owersTwo corses we were! two corses I saw'nd they#d &nd us in a week"hen the weather gets hot'fter the insects have made their claimI#ll be home with you! I#ll be home with youI have never known slee like this slumber that crees to meI have never known colors like this morning reveals to me'nd you haven#t moved an inch such that I would not knowIf you slee always like this! %esh calmly going cold"e#ll lay here for years or for hours3our hand in my hand! so still and discreetSo long! we#d become the %owers"e#d feed well the land and worry the shee'nd they#d &nd us in a week"hen the cattle#d show fear'fter the insects have made their claim'fter the fo.es have known our tasteI#ll be home with you! I#ll be home with you'nd they#d &nd us in a week"hen the weather gets hot'nd they#d &nd us in a week"hen the cattle#d show fear'nd they#d &nd us in a week"hen the buzzards get loud'fter the insects have made their claim'fter the fo.es have known our taste'fter the raven has had his sayI#ll be home with you! I#ll be home with youI#ll be home with you! I#ll be home with youI#ll be home with you! I#ll be home with you"Sedated"(ust a little rush! babeTo feel dizzy! to derail the mind of me(ust a little hush! babe4ur veins are busy but my heart#s in atrohy'ny way to distract and sedate'dding shadows to the walls of the cave3ou and I nursing on a oison that never stung4ur teeth and lungs are lined with the scum of itSomewhere for this! death and guns"e are deaf! we are numbFree and young and we can feel none of itSomething isn#t right! babeI kee catching little words but the meaning#s thinI#m somewhere outside my life! babeI kee scratching but somehow I can#t get inSo we#re slaves to any semblance of touchLord we should 6uit but we love it too muchSedated we#re nursing on a oison that never stung4ur teeth and lungs are lined with the scum of itSomewhere for this! death and guns"e are deaf! we are numbFree and young and we can feel none of it2arlin#! don#t you! stand there watching! won#t youCome and save me from it2arlin#! don#t you! join in! you#re suosed to2rag me away from it'ny way to distract and sedate'dding shadows to the walls of the cave3ou and I nursing on a oison that never stung4ur teeth and lungs are lined with the scum of itSomewhere for this! death and guns"e are deaf! we are numbFree and young and we can feel none of itSedated we#re nursing on a oison that never stung4ur teeth and lungs are lined with the scum of itSomewhere for this! death and guns"e are deaf! we are numbFree and young and we can feel none of it"Work Song"-ody#s workin on emtyIs that the kinda way to face the burning heat5I just think about my babyI#m so full of love I could barely eatThere#s nothing sweeter than my babyI never want once from the cherry treeCause my baby#s sweet as can beShe give me toothaches just from kissin me[Chorus:]"hen! my! time comes aroundLay me gently in the cold dark earthNo grave can hold my body downI#ll crawl home to her-oys! when my baby found meI was three days on a drunken sinI woke with her walls around meNothin in her room but an emty crib'nd I was burnin u a feverI didn#t care much how long I lived-ut I swear I thought I dreamed herShe never asked me once about the wrong I did[Chorus x2]/y babe would never fret none'bout what my hands and my body doneIf the Lord don#t forgive meI#d still have my baby and my babe would have me"hen I was kissing on my baby'nd she ut her love down soft and sweetIn the low lam light I was free1eaven and hell were words to me[Chorus x2]"'ike (eal )eo*le Do"I had a thought! dear1owever scary'bout that nightThe bugs and the dirt"hy were you digging5"hat did you bury-efore those hands ulled meFrom the earth5I will not ask you where you came fromI will not ask and neither should you1oney just ut your sweet lis on my lis"e should just kiss like real eole doI knew that look dear0yes always seeking"as there in someoneThat dug long agoSo I will not ask you"hy you were creeingIn some sad way I already knowSo I will not ask you where you came fromI would not ask and neither would you1oney just ut your sweet lis on my lis"e should just kiss like real eole doI could not ask you where you came fromI could not ask and neither could you1oney just ut your sweet lis on my lis"e could just kiss like real eole do"!t Will Come Back"3ou know better babe! you know better babe!Than to look at it! look at it like that)3ou know better babe! you know better babe!Than to talk to it! talk to it like that)2on#t give it a hand! o7er it a soul1oney! make this easy)Leave it to the land! this is what it knows1oney! that#s how it slees)2on#t let it in with no intention to kee it(esus Christ8 2on#t be kind to it)1oney don#t feed it $ it will come back)3ou know better babe! you know better babe!Than to smile at me! smile at me like that3ou know better babe! you know better babe8Than to hold me just! hold me just like that)I know who I am when I#m aloneI#m something else when I see you3ou don#t understand! you should never know1ow easy you are to need2on#t let me in with with no intention to kee me(esus Christ8 2on#t be kind to me)1oney don#t feed me $ I will come back)It can#t be unlearnedI#ve known the warmth of your doorwaysThrough the cold! I#ll &nd my way back to you4h lease! give me mercy no more8It#s a kindness you can#t a7ord8I want you baby tonight! as sure as you#re born3ou#ll hear me howling outside your door)2on#t you hear me howling babe5"on#t you hear me howling babe52on#t you hear me howling babe54nce you here me howling! once you hear me howling! once you hear me howling babe8"Foreigner+s ,od"She moved with shameless wonderThe erfect creature rarely seenSince some liar brought the thunder"hen the land was godless and free1er eyes look shar and steadyInto the emty arts of me-ut still my heart is heavy"ith the hate of some other man#s beliefs'lways a well dressed fraud"ho wouldn#t sare the rodNever for meScreaming the name of a foreigner#s *od [x3]The urest e.ression of grief"ondering who I coy/ustering some tender charmShe feels no control of her bodyShe feels no safety in my armsI#ve no language left to say it-ut all I do is 6uake to her-reaking if I try convey itThe broken love I make to her'll that I#ve been taught'nd every word I#ve gotIs foreign to me[x3:]Screaming the name of a foreigner#s *od [x3]The urest e.ression of grief"Cherr% Wine"1er eyes and words are so icy4h but she burnsLike rum on the &re1ot and fast and angry's she can beI walk my days on a wireIt looks ugly! but it#s clean4h mamma! don#t fuss over me[Chorus:]The way she tells me I#m hers and she is mine4en hand or closed &st would be &neThe blood is rare and sweet as cherry wineCalls of guilty thrown at me'll while she stainsThe sheets of some otherThrown at me so owerfully(ust like she throws with the arm of her brother-ut I want it! it#s a crimeThat she#s not around most of the time[Chorus:]"ay she shows me I#m hers and she is mine4en hand or closed &st would be &neThe blood is rare and sweet as cherry wine1er &ght and fury is &ery4h but she lovesLike slee to the freezingSweet and right and mercifulI#m all but washedIn the tide of her breathing'nd it#s worth it! it#s divineI have this some of the time[Chorus:]"ay she shows me I#m hers and she is mine4en hand or closed &st would be &neThe blood is rare and sweet as cherry wine"!n The Woods Somewhere"4ur head was warm!/y skin was soaked)I called your name #til the fever broke)"hen I awokeThe moon still hung)The night so black that the darkness hummedI raised myself)/y legs were weak)I rayed my mind be good to me)'n awful noiseFilled the air)I heard a scream in the woods somewhere)' woman#s voice8I 6uickly ranInto the trees with emty hands)' fo. it was!1e shook afraid)I soke no words! no sound he made)1is bone e.osed!1is hind was lame)I raised a stone to end his ain)"hat caused the wound51ow large the teeth5I saw new eyes were watching me)The creature lunged)I turned and ranTo save a life I didn#t have)2ear! in the chaseThere as I %ewForgot all rayers of joining you)I clutched my life'nd wished it ket)/y dearest love I#m not done yet1ow many yearsI know I#ll bearI found something in the woods somewhere)"(-n",are is this love! kee it coveredI need you to run to me! run to me! lover,un until you feel your lungs bleeding4h but the haraoh knows1er hungry eye! her ancient soulIt#s carried by the sneering menagerie9now what it is to grow-eneath her sky! a unishing coldTo slowly light u her ancient miseryTo be twisted by something' shame without a sinLike how she twisted the bug man'fter she married him,are is this love! kee it coveredI need you to run to me! run to me! lover,un until you feel your lungs bleeding-ut in all the worldThere is one lover worthy of her"ith as many souls claimed as she-ut for all he#s worth1e still shatters always on her earthThe cause of every tear she#d ever wee,ushing ashore to meet herFoaming with loneliness"hite ends to follow and meet her*ive her his loneliness,are is this love! kee it coveredI need you to run to me! run to me! lover,un #til you feel your lungs bleeding,are is this love! kee it coveredI need you to run to me! run to me! lover,un until you feel your lungs bleeding,are is this love! kee it coveredI need you to run to me! run to me! lover,un until you feel your lungs bleeding"Arsonist+s '-lla.%e"[$uing]"hen I was a child! I heard voices)))Some would sing and some would scream3ou soon &nd you have few choices)))I learned the voices died with me"hen I was a child! I#d sit for hoursStaring into oen %ameSomething in it had a ower!Could barely tear my eyes away'll you have is your &re)))'nd the lace you need to reach $2on#t you ever tame your demons-ut always kee #em on a leash[$uing]"hen I was :;! my senses fooled meThought gasoline was on my clothesI knew that something would always rule me)))I knew the scent was mine alone'll you have is your &re'nd the lace you need to reach2on#t you ever tame your demons-ut always kee #em on a leash"hen I was a man I thought it ended"hen I knew love#s erfect ache-ut my eace has always deended4n all the ashes in my wake'll you have is your &re!'nd the lace you need to reach2on#t you ever tame your demons!-ut always kee #em on a leash)))"/% 'o0e Will Ne0er Die"3ou#ve done/e wrongFor a longLong time-ut after all3ou#ve doneI never changed/y mind1oney leaseTry to love me1oney lease1oney try/y love will never dieFlowersFlowers grow"here I#m laidTo rest1oney ick' blossom'nd hold it1old itTo your breast1oney you knowThat#s my love-ursting loudFrom inside/y love4h my love my love"ill never die