Hozier - First Time

[Intro]
C#

[Verse 1]
C# G#
Remember once I told you about
D#m7
How before I heard it from your mouth
C# G# D#m7
My name would always hit my ears as such an awful sound
C# G#
And the soul, if that’s what you’d call it
D#m7 C# G#
Uneasy ally of the body, it felt nameless as a river
F# D#m7
Undiscovered underground

[Pre-Chorus]
C# G#
And the first time that you kissed me
D#m7
I drank dry the River Lithe
C# G# D#m7
The Liffey would have been softer on my stomach all the same
C# G#
But you spoke some quick new music
D#m7
That went so far to soothe this soul
C# G# D#m7
As it was and ever shall be, unearth without a name

[Chorus]
C# G# D#m7
Some part of me must have died
C# G# F#
The first time that you called me, “Baby”
C# G# D#m7
And some part of me came alive
C# G# F#
The first time that you called me, “Baby”

[Verse 2]
C# G# D#m7
These days I think I owe my life to flowers
C#
To flowers that were left here by my mother
G# F#
Ain’t that like them, giftin’ life to you again
C# G#
This life lived mostly underground
D#m7
Unknowin’ either sight nor sound
C# G# F#
‘Til reachin’ up for sunlight just to be ripped out by the stem

[Pre-Chorus]
C# G#
Sensing only now it’s dyin’
D#m7
Drying out, then drowning blindly
C# G#
Bloomin’ forth its every colour
F#
In the moments it has left
C# G#
To share the space with simple living things
D#m7 C# G#
Infinitely suffering, but fighting off like all creation
F#
The absence of itself, anyway

[Chorus]
C# G# D#m7
Some part of me must have died
C# G# F#
Each time that you called me, “Baby”
C# G# D#m7
But some part of me stayed alive
C# G# F#
Each time that you called, each time that you called

[Bridge]
C#
Come here
G# D#m7
Ooh-la-la, ooh-la-la
C# G# F#
Whatever keeps you around, it keeps you around
C# G# D#m7
Ooh-la-la, come here, ooh-la-la
C# G# F#
Whatever keeps you around, it keeps you around

[Verse 3]
C# G#
The last time it was heard out loud
D#m7 C#
The perfect genius of our hands and mouths were shocked
G# F#
To resignation as the arguing declined
C# G#
When I was young I used to guess
D#m7
Are there limits to any emptiness?
C# G#
When was the last time
F#
Come here to me, when was the last time?

[Chorus]
C# G# D#m7
Some part of me must have died
C# G# F#
The final time that you called me, “Baby”
C# G# D#m7
But some part of me came alive
C# G# F#
The final time you called me, “Baby”