Butchered Tongue letra

As a child it was the place names
Singin' at me as the first thing
How the mouth must be employed in every corner of itself
To say appalacicola or hushpukena, like gweebara
A promise softly sang 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, hearin' a music that few still understand
A butchered tongue still singin' 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 singin' here above the ground

Hozier - Letras

• Abstract (Psychopomp)
• All Things End
• Almost (Sweet Music)
• Angel Of Small Death & The Codeine Scene
• Anything But
• Arsonist's Lullabye
• As It Was
• Be
• Be (Acoustic Version)
• Better Love
• Blood (unreleased)
• Blood Upon The Snow (feat. Bear McCreary)
• But The Wages (unreleased)
• Butchered Tongue
• Cherry Wine
• Damage Gets Done (feat. Brandi Carlile)
• De Selby, Pt. 1
• De Selby, pt. 2
• Dinner & Diatribes
• Do I Wanna Know?
• Eat Your Young
• Empire Now
• Fare Well
• First Light
• First Time
• Foreigner's God
• Francesca
• From Eden
• I Could Be Yours (unreleased)
• I, Carrion (Icarian)
• In a Week
• In The Woods Somewhere
• It Will Come Back
• Jackboot Jump (Live)
• Jackie And Wilson
• Like Real People Do
• Love Of (unreleased)
• Moment's Silence (Common Tongue)
• Movement
• My Love Will Never Die
• NFWMB
• Nina Cried Power (feat. Mavis Staples)
• No Plan
• Nobody
• Northern Attitude (remix) (feat. Noah Kahan)
• Problem
• Run
• Say My Name
• Sedated
• Shrike
• Someone New
• Son of Nyx
• Sunlight
• Swan Upon Leda
• Take Me To Church
• Take Me To Church / I Put a Spell On You (Medley) (feat. Annie Lennox)
• Talk
• Tell It To My Heart (feat. MEDUZA)
• The Bones (feat. Maren Morris)
• The Parting Glass
• Through Me (The Flood)
• To Be Alone
• To Noise Making (Sing)
• To Someone From a Warm Climate (Uiscefhuarithe)
• Too Sweet
• Unknown (Angel To Me)
• Unknown / Nth
• Wasteland, Baby!
• Who We Are
• Why Would You Be Loved
• Wildflower and Barley (feat. Allison Russell)
• Work Song
• Would That I