Hozier - Jackie And Wilson

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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So tired trying to see from behind the red in my eyes
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No better version of me I could pretend to be tonight
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So deep in this swill with the most familiar of swine
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For reasons wretched and divine

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She blows outta nowhere, roman candle of the wild
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Laughing away through my feeble disguise
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No other version of me I would rather be tonight.
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And, Lord, she found me just in time

[Pre-Chorus]
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Cause with my mid-youth crisis all said and done
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I need to be youthfully felt ’cause, God, I never felt young

[Chorus]
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She’s gonna save me, call me “baby”
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Run her hands through my hair
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She’ll know me crazy, soothe me daily
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Better yet, she wouldn’t care
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We’ll steal her Lexus, be detectives
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Ride ’round picking up clues
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We’ll name our children, Jackie and Wilson
N.C.
Raise ’em on rhythm and blues

[Verse 2]
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Lord, it’d be great to find a place we could escape sometime
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Me and my Isis growing black irises in the sunshine
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Every version of me dead and buried in the yard outside
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Sit back and watch the world go by

[Pre-Chorus]
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Happy to lie back watch it burn and rust
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We tried the world, good God, it wasn’t for us

[Chorus]
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She’s gonna save me, call me “baby”
B F# D
Run her hands through my hair
B F# D
She’ll know me crazy, soothe me daily
B F# D
Better yet, she wouldn’t care
B F# D
We’ll steal her Lexus, be detectives
B F# D
Ride ’round picking up clues
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We’ll name our children, Jackie and Wilson
N.C.
Raise ’em on rhythm and blues

[Instrumental]
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[Bridge]
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Cut clean from the dream that night, let my mind reset
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Looking up from a cigarette, and she’s already left
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I start digging up the yard for what’s left of me and our little vignette
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For whatever poor soul is coming next

[Chorus]
B F# D
She’s gonna save me, call me “baby”
B F# D
Run her hands through my hair
B F# D
She’ll know me crazy, soothe me daily
B F# D
Better yet, she wouldn’t care
B F# D
We’ll steal her Lexus, be detectives
B F# D
Ride ’round picking up clues
B F# D
We’ll name our children, Jackie and Wilson
N.C.
Raise ’em on rhythm and blues