Songfacts®:

• The third single from Hozier's self-titled debut studio album, this finds the Irish singer so lovesick he can "barely eat." Not even death can stop his love for his girl. When his time comes around, Hozier will get out of his grave and crawl home to her.
• Prior to his breakthrough success with "Take Me to Church," Hozier already had a notable supporter of this romantic song: Taylor Swift endorsed it on Twitter back in August 2014 in a tweet to her friend, Victoria's Secret model Lily Aldridge: "Have you heard @Hozier 'Work Song'? It's the perfect song."
• This is the only track on Hozier's self titled album where the song title does not appear in the lyrics.
• Hozier shot the music video for "Work Song" the day after the 2015 Grammy Awards, where he was nominated for Song Of The Year for "Take Me to Church."
  
  "We woke up the next day with outrageous hangovers and had to do the video shoot for 'Work Song,'" he recalled to Hot Press. "If I look pale, it's not the lighting or the color grading!"
  
  The video depicts Hozier performing for an audience that begins to spontaneously break into synchronized slow dancing. Jack Pointer Mackenzie and Jillian Meyers choreographed the dancing, which according to Billboard "verges on performance art, bringing to life Hozier's romantic, sexy lyrics."
• "Work Song" shows up in ABC's procedural drama TV series 9-1-1. It plays in season 8, episode 15 ("Lab Rats"), during a pivotal and emotional scene marking the death of a major character, Bobby Nash.