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To Be Alone Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Never feel too good in crowds
With folks around when they're playing
The anthems of rape culture loud
Crude and proud, creatures baying
All I've ever done is hide
From our times when you're near me
Honey, when you kill the lights and kiss my eyes
I feel like a person for a moment of my life
[Pre-Chorus]
But you don't know what hell you put me through
To have someone kiss the skin that crawls from you
To feel your weight in arms, I'd never use
It's the God that heroin prays to
[Chorus]
It feels good, girl, it feels good
It feels good, girl, it feels good
It feels good, girl, it feels good
Oh, to be alone with you
[Refrain]
Woah, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Woah, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Never feel too good in crowds
With folks around when they're playing
The anthems of rape culture loud
Crude and proud, creatures baying
All I've ever done is hide
From our times when you're near me
Honey, when you kill the lights and kiss my eyes
I feel like a person for a moment of my life
[Pre-Chorus]
But you don't know what hell you put me through
To have someone kiss the skin that crawls from you
To feel your weight in arms, I'd never use
It's the God that heroin prays to
[Chorus]
It feels good, girl, it feels good
It feels good, girl, it feels good
It feels good, girl, it feels good
Oh, to be alone with you
[Refrain]
Woah, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Woah, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
[Verse 2]
There are questions I can't ask
Now, at last, the worst is over
See the way you hold yourself
Reel against your body's borders
I know that you hate this place
Not a trace of me would argue
Honey, we should run away, oh, someday
Our baby and her momma and the damaged love she made
[Pre-Chorus]
But I don't know what else that I would do
Than to try to kiss the skin that crawls from you
Than feel your weight in arms, I'd never use
It's the God that heroin prays to
[Chorus]
It feels good, girl, it feels good
It feels good, girl, it feels good
It feels good, girl, it feels good
Oh, to be alone with you
[Refrain]
Woah, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Woah, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Woah, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Woah, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
There are questions I can't ask
Now, at last, the worst is over
See the way you hold yourself
Reel against your body's borders
I know that you hate this place
Not a trace of me would argue
Honey, we should run away, oh, someday
Our baby and her momma and the damaged love she made
[Pre-Chorus]
But I don't know what else that I would do
Than to try to kiss the skin that crawls from you
Than feel your weight in arms, I'd never use
It's the God that heroin prays to
[Chorus]
It feels good, girl, it feels good
It feels good, girl, it feels good
It feels good, girl, it feels good
Oh, to be alone with you
[Refrain]
Woah, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Woah, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Woah, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Woah, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
[Chorus]
Feels good, girl, it feels good
Feels good, girl, it feels good
It feels good, girl, it feels good
Oh, to be alone with you
Feels good, girl, it feels good
Feels good, girl, it feels good
It feels good, girl, it feels good
Oh, to be alone with you
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Genius Annotation
To Be Alone first appeared on Hozier’s second EP as a live version. And would later appear as 5th track on the self-titled album as a fully realized song.
In the Track by Track he says “It’s about trying to love a damaged person in a modern society”
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Live Performance
Genius Answer
- 4.Someone New
- 5.To Be Alone
- 6.From Eden
- 7.In a Week
- 8.Sedated
- 9.Work Song
- 12.Foreigner’s God
- 15.Run
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Piano
Synthesizer
Drums
Percussion
Guitar
Bass
Cello
Recorded At
Wicklow & Dublin ("in the attic"); Cauldron Studios; Westland Studios; Exchequer Studios
Release Date
March 9, 2014
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