Hozier Flashcards
(31 cards)
too sweet
It can’t be said I’m an early bird
It’s ten o’clock before I say a word
Baby, I can never tell
How do you sleep so well?
You keep telling me to live right
To go to bed before the daylight
But then you wake up for the sunrise
You know you don’t gotta pretend, baby, now and then
Don’t you just wanna wake up, dark as a lake?
Smelling like a bonfire, lost in a haze?
If you’re drunk on life, babe, I think it’s great
But while in this world
I think I’ll take my whiskey neat
My coffee black and my bed at three
You’re too sweet for me
You’re too sweet for me
I take my whiskey neat
My coffee black and my bed at three
You’re too sweet for me
You’re too sweet for me
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
I aim low
I aim true and the ground’s where I go
I work late where I’m free from the phone
And the job gets done
But you worry some, I know
But who wants to live forever, babe?
You treat your mouth as if it’s Heaven’s gate
The rest of you like you’re the TSA
I wish I could go along, babe, don’t get me wrong
You know you’re bright as the morning, as soft as the rain
Pretty as a vine, as sweet as a grape
If you can sit in a barrel, maybe I’ll wait
Until that day
I’d rather take my whiskey neat
My coffee black and my bed at three
You’re too sweet for me
You’re too sweet for me
I take my whiskey neat
My coffee black and my bed at three
You’re too sweet for me
You’re too sweet for me
Whoa, oh-oh
Whoa, oh-oh
Whoa, oh-oh
Whoa, oh-oh
Whoa, oh-oh
Whoa, oh-oh
Whoa, oh-oh
Whoa, oh-oh
I take my whiskey neat
My coffee black and my bed at three
You’re too sweet for me
You’re too sweet for me
jackie and wilson chorus
She’s gonna save me, call me “baby”
Run her hands through my hair
She’ll know me crazy, soothe me daily
Better yet, she wouldn’t care
We’ll steal her Lexus, be detectives
Ride ‘round picking up clues
We’ll name our children, Jackie and Wilson
Raise ‘em on rhythm and blues
jackie and wilson before first chorus
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 away through my feeble disguise
No other version of me I would rather be tonight.
And, Lord, she found me just in time
‘Cause with my mid-youth crisis all said and done
I need to be youthfully felt ‘cause, God, I never felt young
jackie and wilson after first chorus
Lord, it’d be great to find a place we could escape sometime
Me and my Isis growing black irises in the sunshine
Every version of me dead and buried in the yard outside
We’d sit back and watch the world go by
Happy to lie back watch it burn and rust
We tried the world, good God, it wasn’t for us
jackie and wilson after 2nd chorus
Cut clean from the dream at night, let my mind reset
Looking up from a cigarette, and she’s already left
I start digging up the yard for what’s left of me and our little vignette
For whatever poor soul is coming next
to be alone chorus
It feels good, girl, it feels good
It feels good, girl, it feels good
It feels good, girl, it feels good
Oh to be alone with you
to be alone before first chorus
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 feel like a person for a moment of my life
But you don’t know what hell you put me through
To have someone kiss the skin that crawls from you
To feel your weight in arms I’d never use
It’s the god that heroin prays to
to be alone after first chorus
There are questions I can’t ask
Now at last
The worst is over
See the way you hold yourself
Reel against
Your body’s borders
I know that you hate this place
Not a trace
Of me would argue
Honey, we should run away
Oh someday
Our baby and her momma
And the damaged love she make
But I don’t know what else that I would give
Than try to kiss the skin that crawls from you
Then feel your weight in arms I’d never use
It’s the god that heroin prays to
dinner and diatribes
Honey, this club here is stuck up
Dinner and diatribes
I knew it from the first look of
The look of mischief in your eyes
Your friends are a fate that befell me
Head is the talking type
I’d suffer Hell if you’d tell me
What you’d do to me tonight
Tell me
Tell me
Tell me, ah
That’s the kind of love
I’ve been dreaming of
That’s the kind of love
I’ve been dreaming of
Honey, I laugh when it sinks in
A pillar I am of pride
Scarcely can speak for my thinking
What you’d do to me tonight
Now that the evening is slowing
Now that the end is in sight
Honey, it’s easier knowing
What you’d do to me tonight
Tell me
Tell me
Tell your man
That’s the kind of love
I’ve been dreaming of
That’s the kind of love
I’ve been dreaming of
That’s the kind of love
That’s the kind of love
That’s the kind of love
That’s the kind of love
Ohh
Let there be hotels complaints and grievances raised
In that kind of love
(That’s the kind of love)
(That’s the kind of love)
(That’s the kind of love)
Ohh
Let there be damage ensued and tabloid news
In that kind of love
(That’s the kind of love)
(That’s the kind of love)
(That’s the kind of love)
That’s the kind of love
I’ve been dreaming of, ah
Oh
And that’s the kind of love
I’ve been dreaming of
(That’s the kind of love)
(That’s the kind of love)
(That’s the kind of love)
(That’s the kind of love)
And that’s the kind of love
I’ve been dreaming of
(That’s the kind of love)
(That’s the kind of love)
(That’s the kind of love)
francesca chorus
I’ll tell them put me back in it
Darling, I would do it again, ah, ah
If I could hold you for a minute
Darling, I’d go through it again, ah, ah
I would still be surprised I could find you, darling
In any life
If I could hold you for a minute
Darling, I would do it again, ah, ah
francesca before first chorus
Do you think I’d give up
That this might’ve shook the love from me
Or that I was on the brink?
How could you think, darling, I’d scare so easily?
Now that it’s done
There’s not one thing that I would change
My life was a storm, since I was born
How could I fear any hurricane?
If someone asked me at the end
francesca after first chorus
For all that was said
Of where we’d end up at the end of it
When the heart would cease
Ours never knew peace
What good would it be on the far side of things?
It was too soon
When that part of you was ripped away
A grip taking hold
Like a cancer that grows
Each piece of your body that it takes
Though I know my heart would break
francesca after second chorus
I would not change it each time (I would not change it each time)
Heaven is not fit to house a love (Heaven is not fit to house a love)
Like you and I (like you and I)
I would not change it each time (I would not change it each time)
Heaven is not fit to house a love (Heaven is not fit to house a love)
Like you and I (like you and I)
I would not change it each time (I would not change it each time)
Heaven is not fit to house a love (Heaven is not fit to house a love)
Like you and I (like you and I)
it will come back chorus
You know better, babe, you know better, babe
Than to smile at me, smile at me like that
You know better, babe, you know better, babe
Than to hold me just, hold me just like that
it will come back after first chorus
Don’t give it a hand, offer it a soul
Honey, make this easy
Leave it to the land, this is what it knows
Honey, that’s how it sleeps
Don’t let it in with no intention to keep it
Jesus Christ, don’t be kind to it
Honey, don’t feed it, it will come back
it will come back after second chorus
I know who I am when I’m alone
I’m something else when I see you
You don’t understand, you should never know
How easy you are to need
Don’t let me in with no intention to keep me
Jesus Christ, don’t be kind to me
Honey, don’t feed me, I will come back
It can’t be unlearned
I’ve known the warmth of your doorways
Through the cold, I’ll find my way back to you
Oh, please, give me mercy no more
That’s a kindness you can’t afford
I warn you, baby, each night, as sure as you’re born
You’ll hear me howling outside your door
Don’t you hear me howling, babe?
Don’t you hear me howling, babe?
Don’t you hear me howling, babe?
Don’t you hear me howling?
Don’t you hear me howling?
Don’t you hear me howling, babe?
like real people do chorus
I will not ask you where you came from
I will not ask you, neither should you
Honey just put your sweet lips on my lips
We should just kiss like real people do
like real people do before first chorus
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?
like real people do after first chorus
I knew that look dear
Eyes always seeking
Was there in someone
That dug long ago
So I will not ask you
Why you were creeping
In some sad way I already know
abstract chorus
See how it shines
See how it shines
See how it shines
See how it shines
abstract before first chorus
Sometimes it returns
Like rain that you slept through
That washed off the world
The streets looking brand new
I will not be great
But I’m grateful to get through
The feeling came late
I’m still glad I met you
The memory hurts
But does me no harm
Your hand in my pocket
To keep us both warm
The poor thing in the road
Its eye still glistening
The cold wet of your nose
The Earth from a distance
abstract after first chorus
Sometimes there’s a thought
Like you choose what you’re doing
But it comes to nought
When I look back through it
I remember the view
Streetlights in the dark blue
The moment I knew
I’d no choice but to love you
The speed that you moved
The screech of the cars
The creature still moving
That slowed in your arms
The fear in its eyes
Gone out in an instant
Your tear caught the light
The Earth from a distance
abstract after second chorus
Darling, there’s a part of me
I’m afraid will always be
Trapped within an abstract from a moment of my life
The weeds up through the concrete
The traffic picking up speed
All my love and terror
Balanced there between those eyes
would that i chorus
And it’s not tonight (oh, oh)
Where I’m set alight (oh, oh)
And I blink in sight (oh)
Of your blinding light (oh)
Oh, it’s not tonight (oh, oh)
Where you hold me tight (oh, oh)
Light the fire bright (oh)
Oh, let it blaze, alright (oh)
