Released: July 3, 2013
Songwriter: Hozier
Producer: Hozier
[Verse 1]
Her eyes and words are so icy
Oh, but she burns
Like rum on a fire
Hot and fast and angry as she can be
I walk my days on a wire
[Pre-Chorus 1]
It looks ugly, but it's clean
Oh mama, don't fuss over me
[Chorus]
The way she tells me I'm hers and she is mine
Open hand or closed fist would be fine
The blood is rare and sweet as cherry wine
[Verse 2]
Calls of guilty thrown at me, all while she stains
The sheets of some other
Thrown at me so powerfully, just like she throws
With the arm of her brother
[Pre-Chorus 2]
But I want it, it's a crime
That she's not around most of the time
[Chorus 2]
The way she shows me I'm hers and she is mine
Open hand or closed fist would be fine
The blood is rare and sweet as cherry wine
[Verse 3]
Her fight and fury's fiery
Oh, but she looks
Like sleep to the freezing
Sweet and right and merciful, I'm all but washed
In the tide of her breathing
[Pre-Chorus 3]
And it's worth it, it's divine
I have this some of the time
[Chorus 2]
The way she shows me I'm hers and she is mine
Open hand or closed fist would be fine
The blood is rare and sweet as cherry wine
Her eyes and words are so icy
Oh, but she burns
Like rum on a fire
Hot and fast and angry as she can be
I walk my days on a wire
[Pre-Chorus 1]
It looks ugly, but it's clean
Oh mama, don't fuss over me
[Chorus]
The way she tells me I'm hers and she is mine
Open hand or closed fist would be fine
The blood is rare and sweet as cherry wine
[Verse 2]
Calls of guilty thrown at me, all while she stains
The sheets of some other
Thrown at me so powerfully, just like she throws
With the arm of her brother
[Pre-Chorus 2]
But I want it, it's a crime
That she's not around most of the time
[Chorus 2]
The way she shows me I'm hers and she is mine
Open hand or closed fist would be fine
The blood is rare and sweet as cherry wine
[Verse 3]
Her fight and fury's fiery
Oh, but she looks
Like sleep to the freezing
Sweet and right and merciful, I'm all but washed
In the tide of her breathing
[Pre-Chorus 3]
And it's worth it, it's divine
I have this some of the time
[Chorus 2]
The way she shows me I'm hers and she is mine
Open hand or closed fist would be fine
The blood is rare and sweet as cherry wine
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From the albums
- Take Me to Church (2013)
- Wish I Was Here (Music From the Motion Picture) (2014)
- Hozier (2014)
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- Cherry Wine (Live)
- From Eden
- Work Song
- Nina Cried Power
- Shrike
- Angel of Small Death & the Codeine Scene
- Almost (Sweet Music)
- Movement
- Like Real People Do
- Someone New
- Moment’s Silence (Common Tongue)
- NFWMB
- Jackie and Wilson
- To Be Alone
- Wasteland, Baby!
- Arsonist’s Lullabye
- In a Week
- No Plan
- Dinner & Diatribes
- Would That I
- Sedated
- Foreigner’s God
- Talk