Hozier: 'Work Song'

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"Work Song"

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'd 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 kissin' on my baby
And she put her love down soft and sweet
In the low lamp light 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

[caitlinsailors]

My mother passed away a few years ago and I want this to be played at my funeral because make no mistake when I leave this Earth I will find her again ❤

[tracigavaza]

My dog died this past summer. She was my best friend. She was with me through the toughest times in my life. When I was Pregnant and homeless it was my sweet girl who kept me warm at night. She died so suddenly and unexpectedly, while in the care of my grandmother. I didn’t get to say goodbye. I’ve never mourned so much over anyone or anything in my life. I laid her to rest in my grandmothers backyard and for months in struggled with the fact that I didn’t bury her at our childhood home. I was sobbing to my mother on the phone one day about this, when at that very moment this song came on. This song gave me comfort, and reminded me that love never dies. Thank you, Hozier.

[christinedaniels]

Laying in bed in a pillow soaked with tears. Alone. While my husband sleeps in the other room. My heart is breaking. I yearn for this. Real love.

[beautifullykayla]

He put his heart and SOUL into this song you can just FEEL it

[melaniedyess]

We just buried my daughter at 20wks and I’m so happy to have found this song. I miss her so much and can’t wait to have her in my arms again

[-stargaze]

This song reminds me so much of Bash and Mary from Anne with an E, it's actually fantastic how well it fits for them

[alabamanano]

I fuckin love this song!!! “My baby’s as sweet as can be, she gives me toothaches just from kissing me”
“When my time comes around, lay my gently in the cold dark earth, no grave can hold my body down, I’ll crawl home to her”
Some of the most beautifully poetic lyrics ever written and they got me through some hard times.
Thank you Hozier, for this amazingly beautiful song and what it helped me get through

[jajabandonne]

I found my wedding song. Now I need to find a partner cuz all I see when I picture myself dancing to this, is a blurry figure who feels like a sunset

[jujifenty]

I love this song, but listening to it at the wrong time would probably depress me.

[zoemarie]

My friend sang this for a talent show it was amazing now I am in love with this song

[zbxnryh]

Hozier gives me antique gold and Greece priest vibe

[sofialudlow]

Unlike some people in the comment section, this song makes me think about someone I don't know yet, deep down I want to be a mom, I'm young and dumb but maybe very in the deepest of my desires I want to have a little one running in the backyard. I'm gonna be good, for me, for them, for us.

[iwentthehead]

The people in this comment section really need a hug...

[angelalzam]

I lost my baby in January it was healthy and everything and within a few days after finding out how far along I was and hearing the heartbeat, I went back for spotting and my babies heart had stopped. I also found out that very same day that my husband of 14 years had been cheating on me and spread and sti to me and our unborn baby which is what caused my babies heart to stop beating. I had to have a d&c and to say I was beyond devastated does not even begin to describe how much pain I felt. I heard this song and it just broke me down thinking about my baby.

[AutheniaTabooEroticaAuthor]

Lord, I only ask that you placed me here to not only love someone this much but to also be loved this much in return by them❤

[Elixfy_]

I was 12 and lost my parents due to drugs and alcohol in a car accident, i am 14 now and this just reminds me of the good times and to keep going. I wish the other people who are hurting to find the right person to spend the rest of there.life happy together.

[hannahkohl]

She lives 7 states away but the only thing that I can do right now is to just imagine her body pressed up against mine. The amount of warmth I get from imagining her here mixed with the amount of coldness I get from her absence is enough to make my heart feel like it’s burning

[marissajacobs]

I pray every night before bed for a love like this. I know this love exists because I am full of it. I am worthy and deserving of a safe and unconditional love. Speaking it into existence

[veronikaconstantinou]

This song makes me feel much better about my sins, all the bad things I did in my life, the people I hurt and most of all myself.. I got all the love of the world from just one person, and from then I'm just free to be just me and grow in ways I didn't know I could. Love is everything:)

[jac]

My boyfriend passed away last month to cancer. I can't believe this song came out 8 years ago and I only found it this year. RIP to Brandon. 10+ years with you.. Really felt the void without you with me now.