2015-03-12 - 5:29 p.m.
Work Song - Hozier
Body's 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 lamp light 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
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This song paints a complete image of precisely what it is that I want from love. It's a lot to ask, I know. It's about complete acceptance and complete love beyond all, even death. It goes past God and past death and into forever, beyond where human flesh can go.
If I could know, really know, that this is how my man felt about me in his heart, and his love could not be changed by hard times or other people's interference because it simply is too strong to be removed, there would be no valley low enough, no mountain high enough. Yes? There's no limit to what I would do for that kind of love.
This all consuming kind of love is the one I want. No standing back on pride. No lukewarm feelings. All in.
Way too much to ask for?
Maybe.
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