Cherry Wine

Album: Hozier (2014)
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  • 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 or closed fist would be fine
    The blood is rare and sweet as cherry wine

    Calls of guilty thrown at me
    All while she stains
    The sheets of some other
    Thrown at me so powerfully
    Just like she throws with the arm of her brother

    But I want it
    It's a crime
    That she's not around most of the time

    The way she shows me I'm hers and she is mine
    Open hand or closed fist would be fine
    Blood is rare and sweet as cherry wine

    Her fight and fury is fiery
    Oh but she loves
    Like sleep to the freezing
    Sweet and right and merciful
    I'm all but washed
    In the tide of her breathing

    And it's worth it, it's divine
    I have this some of the time

    The way she shows me I'm hers and she is mine
    Open hand or closed fist would be fine
    The blood is rare and sweet as cherry wine Writer/s: Andrew Hozier Byrne
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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