Hozier

I came in from the outside, burned out from a joyride She likes to roll here in my ashes anyway Played from the bedside is "Stella by Starlight" There was my heart, the drums that start off night and day The same kind of music haunts her bedroom I'm almo...

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 dissolved in some frozen devotion, No more alone or myself could I be,...

When I was a child, I heard voices, Some would sing and some would scream. You soon find you have few choices, I learned the voices died with me. When I was a child I'd sit for hours, Staring into open flames. Something in it had a power, Could barely...

There is a roadway Muddy and foxgloved Whenever I'd had life enough My heart is screaming of And in a few days I will be there, love Whatever here that's left of me Is yours just as it was Just as it was, baby Before the otherness came And I knew i...

When all the worst we fear lifts all its weight When the gyre widens on and when the wave breaks When St. Peter loses cool and bars the Gates When Atlas acts so mad it makes his arms shake When the birds are heard again and they're singing Once atrocity i...

I once kneeled in shaking thrill. Chase the memory of it still; of every chill Chided by the silence Of the hush sublime Blind to the purpose of the brute divine But you were mine Staring at a blackness at some distant star But through them knowing...

Tryin' hard to recognise Some clear motive inside of me A creature that would horrify Any child that I used to be Oh, give no faith to show Started to smile so I showed my teeth No more than flesh and bone Doin' so much just to watch someone bleed But...

Her eyes and words are so icy Oh but she burns Like rum on the fire Hot and fast and angry As she can be I walk my days on a wire. It looks ugly, but it's clean, Oh Momma, don't fuss over me. The way she tells me I'm hers and she is mine Open hand...

Honey this club here is stuck up Dinner and Diatribes I knew well from our first hookup The look of mischief in your eye Your friends are a fate that befell me Hell is the talking type I'd suffer hell if you'd tell me What you'd do to me tonight Tell...

Have you got colour in your cheeks? Do you ever get that fear that you can't shift The type that sticks around like something in your teeth? Are there some aces up your sleeve? Have you no idea that you're in deep? I dreamt about you nearly every night th...

She moved with shameless wonder The perfect creature rarely seen Since some liar brought the thunder When the land was godless and free Her eyes look sharp and steady Into the empty parts of me But still my heart is heavy With the hate of some other ma...

Babe, there's something tragic about you Something so magic about you Don't you agree? Babe, there's something lonesome about you Something so wholesome about you Get closer to me No tired sighs, no rolling eyes, no irony No 'who cares', no vacant star...

God rest ye merry, gentlemen Let nothing you dismay Remember, Christ, our Saviour Was born on Christmas day To save us all from Satan's power When we were gone astray Good, tidings of comfort and joy Comfort and joy Good, tidings of comfort and joy F...

I have never known peace like the damn grass that yields to me I have never known hunger like these insects that feast on me A thousand teeth and yours among them, I know Our hungers appeased, our heart beats becoming slow We’ll lay here for years or for...

My head was warm, My skin was soaked. I called your name 'til the fever broke. When I awoke The moon still hung. The night so black that the darkess hummed. I raised myself. My legs were weak. I prayed my mind be good to me. An awful noise Filled...

You know better babe, you know better babe, Than to look at it, look at it like that. You know better babe, you know better babe, Than to talk to it, talk to it like that. Don't give it a hand, offer it a soul Honey, make this easy. Leave it to the land...

At Standing Rock the Jackboot Jump You’d swear was all the rage Whether tearing up old treaties Or just tearing up the place It’s always corporate infrastructure Over the structure of your face In Moscow the Jackboot show Has so much in store For any...

So tired trying to see from behind the red in my eyes No better version of me I could pretend to be tonight So deep in this swill with the most familiar of swine For reasons wretched and divine She blows outta nowhere, roman candle of the wild Laughing a...

I had a thought, Dear However scary, About that night, The bugs and the dirt Why were you digging? What did you bury, Before those hands pulled me From the earth? I will not ask you where you came from, I will not ask you and neither should you....

When stunted hammers place with men my mere monstrosity Alarms are struck I'm sure as shit by sheer atrocity A cure I know that soothes the soul, the soul impossibly A moment's silence when my baby puts her mouth on Me and my babe relaxin' catching manic r...

I still watch you when you're groovin' As if through water from the bottom of a pool You're movin' without movin' And when you move, I'm moved You are a call to motion There, all of you a verb in perfect view Like Jonah on the ocean When you move, I'm m...

You've done Me wrong For a long long time But after all You've done I never changed My mind Honey please Try to love me Honey please Honey try My love will never die Flowers Flowers grow Where I'm laid To rest Honey pick A blossom And ho...

When I first saw you, the end was soon To Bethlehem, it slouched and then Must've caught a good look at you Give your heart and soul to charity 'Cause the rest of you, the best of you Honey, belongs to me Ain't it a gentle sound, the rollin' in the grav...

It's not the wakin', it's the risin' It is the groundin' of a foot uncompromisin' It's not forgoin' of the lie It's not the openin' of eyes It's not the wakin', it's the risin' It's not the shade, we should be cast in It's the light, and it's the obstac...

For starts What a waste to say the heart could feel apart Or feel complete, baby Why would you make out of words A cage for your own bird? When it sings so sweet The screaming, heaving, fuckery of the world? Why would you offer her name To the same old...

You know it is twelve o'clock in Soho, baby It's gin o'clock where I wake up, I don't know And I think about you, lo, everywhere I go And I've done everythin' and I've been everywhere, you know I've been fed gold by sweet fools in Abu Dhabi And I've danc...

Hey baby even though I hate ya! I wanna love ya I want you! And even though I can't forgive you I really want ta I want you! Tell me, tell me baby Why can't you leave me? Cause even though I shouldn't want it I gotta have it I want you! Head in th...

Rare is this love, keep it covered I need you to run to me, run to me, lover Run until you feel your lungs bleeding Oh, but the farrow know Her hungry eye, her ancient soul It's carried by the sneering menagerie Know what it is to grow Beneath her sky...

Just a little rush, babe To feel dizzy, to derail the mind of me Just a little hush, babe Our veins are busy but my heart's in atrophy Any way to distract and sedate Adding shadows to the walls of the cave You and I nursing on a poison that never stung...

I couldn't utter my love when it counted Ah, but I'm singing like a bird 'bout it now And I couldn't whisper when you needed it shouted Ah, but I'm singing like a bird 'bout it now The words hung above But never would form Like a cry at the final breath...

Don't take this the wrong way You knew who I was with every step that I ran to you Only blue or black days Electing strange perfections in any stranger I choose Would things be easier if there was a right way Honey there is no right way And so I fall i...

Hey, I would shun the light Sharin' evenings cool and quiet Who betrayed that I'm the night For sunlight, sunlight, sunlight But his heart would not take flight Betray the moon as acolyte I'm first and fierce if I'm in sight Of sunlight, sunlight, sunli...

My lover's got humour She's the giggle at a funeral Knows everybody's disapproval I should've worshipped her sooner If the heavens ever did speak She's the last true mouthpiece Every Sunday's getting more bleak A fresh poison each week "We were born sick," y...

I'd be the voice that urged Orpheus When her body was found Hey yeah I'd be the choiceless hope in grief That drove him underground Hey yeah I'd be the dreadful need in the devotee That made him turn around Hey yeah And I'd be the immediate forgivenes...

Never feel too good in crowds, With folks around, when they're playing The anthems of rape culture loud, Crude and proud creatures baying All I've ever done is hide From our times when you're near me Honey, when you kill the lights, and kiss my eyes I...

Remember when you'd sing, just for the fuck of it? Any joy it would bring Honey, the look of it was as sweet as the sound Your head tilt back, your funny mouth to the clouds I couldn't hope to know that song and all its words wouldn't claim to feel the sa...

All the fear and the fire of the end of the world Happens each time a boy falls in love with a girl Happens great, happens sweet Happily, I'm unfazed here, too Wasteland, baby I'm in love, I'm in love with you All the things yet to come are the things...

Body's workin on empty Is that the kinda way to face the burning heat? I just think about my baby I'm so full of love I could barely eat There's nothing sweeter than my baby I never want once from the cherry tree Cause my baby's sweet as can be She give...

True that I saw her hair like the branch of a tree Willow dancing on air before covering me Under cotton and calicoes Over canopy dead but long ago True that love in withdrawal was the weeping of me That the sound of the saw must be known by the tree Mus...