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