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Hozier Butchered Tongue Official Audio
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Official audio for “Butchered Tongue” by Hozier • Listen to ‘Unreal Unearth: Unending’ out now: https://hozier.lnk.to/UnrealUnearthUn... • Watch more videos by Hozier: https://hozier.lnk.to/listen_YD/youtube • Subscribe to the official Hozier YouTube channel: https://hozier.lnk.to/subscribeYD • • Follow Hozier • Facebook: https://hozier.lnk.to/follow_FI • Instagram: https://Hozier.lnk.to/follow_II • TikTok: https://hozier.lnk.to/follow_TTK • Twitter: https://hozier.lnk.to/follow_TI • Website: https://hozier.lnk.to/follow_WI • Spotify: https://hozier.lnk.to/follow_SI • YouTube: https://hozier.lnk.to/subscribeYD • Lyrics • As a child it was • The place names singing • at me as the first thing • • How the mouth • Must be employed • In every corner of itself • • To say • “Apalachicola”, or “Hushpuckena” • Like “Gweebarra”; a promise • Softly sung of somewhere else • • And as a young man • Blessed to pass so many road signs • And have my foreign ear • Made fresh again • On each unlikely sound • But feel at home • Hearing a music • That few still understand • A butchered tongue still • Singing here above the ground • • The ears were chopped • from young men • If the pitch-cap didn’t kill them • • They are buried • Without scalp • In the shattered bedrock of our home • • You may never know your fortune • Until the distance has been shown between • What is lost forever • And what can still be known • • So far from home • To have a stranger call you ‘darling’ • And have your guarded heart • Be lifted like a child up by the hand • In some town that just means • ‘Home’ to them • With no translator left to sound • A butchered tongue • Still singing here above the ground • #Hozier #ButcheredTongue #UnrealUnearth
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