Hozier - First Time lyrics

Remember once I told you about
How before I heard it from your mouth
My name would always hit my ears
As such an awful sound
And the soul, if that's what you'd call it
Uneasy ally of the body
It felt nameless as a river
Undiscovered underground

And the first time that you kissed me
I drank dry the River Lethe
The Liffey would have been softer on
My stomach all the same
But, you spoke some quick new music
That went so far to soothe this soul
As it was and ever shall be
Unearth without a name

Some part of me must have died
The first time that you called me, "Baby"
And some part of me came alive
The first time that you called me, "Baby"

These days I think I owe my life
To flowers that were left here by my mother
Ain't that like them
Giftin' life to you again
This life lived mostly underground
Unknowin' either sight nor sound
'Til reachin' up for sunlight just to
Be ripped out by the stem

Sensing only now it's dyin'
Drying out, then drowning blindly
Bloomin' forth it's every colour
In the moments it has left
To share the space with simple living things
Infinitely suffering
But fighting off like all creation
The absence of it'self, anyway

Some part of me must have died
Each time that you called me, "Baby"
But some part of me stayed alive
Each time that you called
Each time that you called

Come here ooh la la, ooh la la
Whatever keeps you around
It keeps you around
Ooh la la, come here, ooh la la
Whatever keeps you around
It keeps you around

The last time it was heard out loud
The perfect genius of our hands
And mouths were shocked
To resignation as the arguing declined
When I was young I used to guess
Are there limit's to any emptiness?
When was the last time
Come here to me, when was the last time?

Some part of me must have died
The final time that you called me, "Baby"
But some part of me came alive
The final time you called me, "Baby"