Work Song

Album: Hozier (2014)
Charted: 120
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  • Boys, 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'd never want once from the cherry tree
    'Cause my baby's sweet as can be
    She give me toothaches just from kissin' me

    When my time comes around
    Lay me gently in the cold, dark earth
    No grave can hold my body down
    I'll crawl home to her

    Boys, when my baby found me
    I was three days on a drunken sin
    I woke with her walls around me
    Nothin' in her room but an empty crib
    And I was burnin' up a fever
    I didn't care much how long I lived
    But I swear I thought I dreamed her
    She never asked me once about the wrong I did

    When my time comes around
    Lay me gently in the cold, dark earth
    No grave can hold my body down
    I'll crawl home to her

    When my time comes around
    Lay me gently in the cold, dark earth
    No grave can hold my body down
    I'll crawl home to her

    My babe would never fret none
    About what my hands and my body done
    If the Lord don't forgive me
    I'd still have my baby and my babe would have me
    When I was kissing on my baby
    And she put her love down soft and sweet
    In the low lamplight I was free
    Heaven and hell were words to me

    When my time comes around
    Lay me gently in the cold, dark earth
    No grave can hold my body down
    I'll crawl home to her

    When my time comes around
    Lay me gently in the cold, dark earth
    No grave can hold my body down
    I'll crawl home to her Writer/s: Andrew Hozier-Byrne
    Publisher: Sentric Music, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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