Lyrics Butchered Tongue.lrc Hozier
[id: ayidcnnm]
[ar: Hozier]
[al: Unreal Unearth]
[ti: Butchered Tongue]
[length: 02:30]
[00:13.62]As a child, it was the place names
[00:17.10]Singin’ at me as the first thing
[00:21.73]How the mouth must be employed in every corner of itself
[00:28.85]To say “Appalacicola” or “Hushpukena,” like “Gweebarra”
[00:33.45]A promise softly sung of somewhere else
[00:41.18]And as a young man, blessed to pass so many road signs
[00:50.23]And have my foreign ear made fresh again on each unlikely sound
[00:57.02]But feel at home, hearin’ a music that few still understand
[01:03.34]A butchered tongue still singin’ here above the ground
[01:11.20]The ears were chopped from young men if the pitch cap didn’t kill them
[01:19.18]They are buried without scalp in the shattered bedrock of our home
[01:26.27]You may never know your fortune
[01:29.52]Until the distance has been shown between what is lost forever
[01:35.03]And what can still be known
[01:39.12]So far from home to have a stranger call you, “Darling”
[01:46.01]And have your guarded heart be lifted like a child up by the hand
[01:52.89]In some town that just means “Home” to them
[01:56.61]With no translator left to sound
[01:59.63]A butchered tongue still singin’ here above the ground
[02:03.47]Year of Release: 2023