Chords with lyrics
- Difficulty: Intermediate
🎸 Intro: C#C# 🎸 Verse 1: C#C# G#G# Remember once I told you about D#m7D#m7 How before I heard it from your mouth C#C# G#G# D#m7D#m7 My name would always hit my ears as such an awful sound C#C# G#G# And the soul, if that's what you'd call it D#m7D#m7 C#C# G#G# Uneasy ally of the body, it felt nameless as a river F#F# D#m7D#m7 Undiscovered underground 🎸 Pre-Chorus: C#C# G#G# And the first time that you kissed me D#m7D#m7 I drank dry the River Lithe C#C# G#G# D#m7D#m7 The Liffey would have been softer on my stomach all the same C#C# G#G# But you spoke some quick new music D#m7D#m7 That went so far to soothe this soul C#C# G#G# D#m7D#m7 As it was and ever shall be, unearth without a name 🎸 Chorus: C#C# G#G# D#m7D#m7 Some part of me must have died C#C# G#G# F#F# The first time that you called me, "Baby" C#C# G#G# D#m7D#m7 And some part of me came alive C#C# G#G# F#F# The first time that you called me, "Baby" 🎸 Verse 2: C#C# G#G# D#m7D#m7 These days I think I owe my life to flowers C#C# To flowers that were left here by my mother G#G# F#F# Ain't that like them, giftin' life to you again C#C# G#G# This life lived mostly underground D#m7D#m7 Unknowin' either sight nor sound C#C# G#G# F#F# 'Til reachin' up for sunlight just to be ripped out by the stem 🎸 Pre-Chorus: C#C# G#G# Sensing only now it's dyin' D#m7D#m7 Drying out, then drowning blindly C#C# G#G# Bloomin' forth its every colour F#F# In the moments it has left C#C# G#G# To share the space with simple living things D#m7D#m7 C#C# G#G# Infinitely suffering, but fighting off like all creation F#F# The absence of itself, anyway 🎸 Chorus: C#C# G#G# D#m7D#m7 Some part of me must have died C#C# G#G# F#F# Each time that you called me, "Baby" C#C# G#G# D#m7D#m7 But some part of me stayed alive C#C# G#G# F#F# Each time that you called, each time that you called 🎸 Bridge: C#C# Come here G#G# D#m7D#m7 Ooh-la-la, ooh-la-la C#C# G#G# F#F# Whatever keeps you around, it keeps you around C#C# G#G# D#m7D#m7 Ooh-la-la, come here, ooh-la-la C#C# G#G# F#F# Whatever keeps you around, it keeps you around 🎸 Verse 3: C#C# G#G# The last time it was heard out loud D#m7D#m7 C#C# The perfect genius of our hands and mouths were shocked G#G# F#F# To resignation as the arguing declined C#C# G#G# When I was young I used to guess D#m7D#m7 Are there limits to any emptiness? C#C# G#G# When was the last time F#F# Come here to me, when was the last time? 🎸 Chorus: C#C# G#G# D#m7D#m7 Some part of me must have died C#C# G#G# F#F# The final time that you called me, "Baby" C#C# G#G# D#m7D#m7 But some part of me came alive C#C# G#G# F#F# The final time you called me, "Baby"
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Alternative guitar chords and tabs for First time by Hozier
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