Butchered Tongue lyrics

• Copyright: Hozier

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  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 "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, 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

• Who is the author of the song Butchered Tongue ?
  The song Butchered Tongue was written by Hozier.

• Who sings the song Butchered Tongue ?
  The song Butchered Tongue is performed by Hozier.