Hozier – First Time (Guitar)

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[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#           
These days I think I owe my life 

      D#m7                            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 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"