Work Song
Work Song

Hozier - Work Song Lyrics

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Work Song Lyrics

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 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 kissing 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

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

Writer(s): Andrew Hozier-Byrne
Copyright(s): Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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What is the Meaning of Work Song?

To me I feel as if him and his woman broke apart and he went around and got drunk and such. and she has found him again

When he says would never want from the cherry tree this means he would never cheat, the cherry's are referring to other women. his baby is sweeter than anything. And he is happy with her alone

This song is about a working man, it could be he is working to support his love, or maybe working in order to impress his love. What keeps him going is thinking about his baby. Even though he is working on empty the thought of his Love keeps him going and not to be so desperate for something so material like food

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