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Work Song Lyrics

This is the only song on Hozier’s self titled album to have a title that is not entirely composed of lyrics from the song.

The song is about the love of a worker’s life lending him strength during a hard… Read More 

[Intro]

Mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm

Mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm

[Verse 1]

Boys workin' on empty

Is that the kinda way to face the burnin' heat?

I just think about my baby

I'm so full of love, I could barely eat

There's nothin' 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

[Chorus]

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

[Verse 2]

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

[Chorus]

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

[Verse 3]

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 lamplight, I was free

Heaven and hell were words to me

[Chorus]

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