hozier lyrics, hozier (expanded edition)
βΒ Β i should've worshipped them sooner. β
βΒ Β we were born sick. β
βΒ Β the only heaven i'll be sent to is when i'm alone with you. β
βΒ Β i'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies. β
βΒ Β good god, let me give you my life. β
βΒ Β there is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin. β
βΒ Β it's toying somewhere between love and abuse. β
βΒ Β no more alone or myself i could be. β
βΒ Β [i/you] lurched like a stray to the arms that were open. β
βΒ Β i lay my heart down with the rest at [your/their] feet. β
βΒ Β i wonder if it's better now having survived. β
βΒ Β i'm so tired trying to see from behind the red in my eyes. β
βΒ no better version of me i could pretend to be tonight. β
βΒ Β [they/you] found me just in time. β
βΒ Β cause with my mid-youth crisis all said and done, i need to be youthfully felt cause i never felt young. β
βΒ Β it'd be great to find a place we could escape sometimes. β
βΒ Β we tried the world and it wasn't for us. β
βΒ Β you knew who i was with every step that i ran to you. β
βΒ Β would things be easier if there was a right way? β
βΒ Β honey, there is no right way. β
βΒ Β i fall in love just a little bit every day with someone new. β
βΒ Β there's an art to life's distractions. β
βΒ Β love with every stranger, the stranger the better. β
βΒ Β all i've ever done is hide. β
βΒ Β when you kill the lights and kiss my eyes, i feel ike a person for a moment of my life. β
βΒ Β but you don't know what the hell you put me through. β
βΒ Β it feels good to be alone with you. β
βΒ Β there are questions i can't ask. β
βΒ Β now, at last, the worst is over. β
βΒ Β i know that you hate this place. β
βΒ Β there's something tragic about you, something so magic about you, don't you agree? β
βΒ Β there's something lonesome about you, something so wholesome about you. β
βΒ Β innocence died screaming. ask me, i should know. β
βΒ Β there's something broken about this but i might be hoping about this. β
βΒ Β we'll lay here for years or for hours, your hand in my hand. so still and discreet. β
βΒ Β i'd be home with you. β
βΒ Β any way to distract and sedate. β
βΒ Β i'm somewhere outside my life. i keep scratching but somehow i can't get in. β
βΒ Β don't you stand there watching me, won't you? β
βΒ Β don't you join in, you're supposed to drag me away from it. β
βΒ Β i'm so full of love, i could barely eat. β
βΒ Β [they/you] are sweet as can be. [they/you] give me toothaches just from kissing me. β
βΒ Β no grave can hold my body down, i'll crawl home to [them/you]. β
βΒ Β you never asked me once about the wrong i did. β
βΒ Β [you/they] would never fret none about what my hands and my body done. β
βΒ Β if the lord don't forgive me, i'd still have you and you would have me. β
βΒ Β why were you digging? what did you bury? β
βΒ Β i will not ask you where you came from. i will not ask and neither should you. β
βΒ Β just put your sweet lips on my lips. we should just kiss like real people do. β
βΒ Β i know that look, eyes always seeking. β
βΒ Β i will not ask you why you were creeping. in some sad way, i already know. β
βΒ Β you know better than to smile at me like that. β
βΒ Β i know who i am when i'm alone. β
βΒ Β you don't understand. you should never know how easy you are to need. β
βΒ Β don't let me in with no intention to keep me. β
βΒ Β it can't be unlearned. i've known the warmth of your doorways. β
βΒ Β i'll find my way back to you. β
βΒ Β my heart is heavy with the hate of some other man's beliefs. β
βΒ Β screaming the name of a foreigner's good is the purest expression of grief. β
βΒ Β i feel no control of my body. i feel no safety in [your/their] arms. β
βΒ Β all that i've been taught and every word i've got is foreign to me. β
βΒ Β it looks ugly but it's clean. β
βΒ Β your fight and fury is fiery. β
βΒ Β it's worth it, it's divine. i have this some of the time. β
βΒ Β you called my name til the fever broke. β
βΒ Β i heard a scream in the woods somewhere. β
βΒ Β i turned and ran to save a life i didn't have. β
βΒ Β i need you to run to me. run to me! β
βΒ when i was a child, i heard voices. some would sing and some would scream. β
βΒ don't you ever tame your demons but always keep them on a leash. β
βΒ you've done me wrong for a long, long time. β
βΒ after all you've done, i never changed my mind. β
βΒ please, try to love me. β
βΒ my love will never die. β