In a Week

[Verse 1: Hozier]

I have never known peace

Like the damp grass that yields to me

I have never known hunger

Like these insects that feast on me

A thousand teeth

And yours among them, I know

Our hungers appeased

Our heartbeats becoming slow

[Pre-Chorus: Both, Karen Cowley, Hozier]

We lay here for years or for hours

Thrown here or found, to freeze or to thaw

So long, we'd become the flowers

Two corpses we were, two corpses I saw

[Chorus: Karen Cowley & Hozier]

And they'd find us in a week

When the weather gets hot

After the insects have made their claim

I'd be home with you, I'd be home with you

[Verse 2: Karen Cowley]

I have never known sleep

Like this slumber that creeps to me

I have never known colour

Like this morning reveals to me

And you haven't moved an inch

Such that I would not know

If you sleep always like this

The flesh calmly going cold

[Pre-Chorus: Karen Cowley & Hozier, Karen Cowley, Hozier]

We lay here for years or for hours

Your hand in my hand, so still and discreet

So long, we'd become the flowers

We'd feed well the land and worry the sheep

[Chorus: Karen Cowley & Hozier]

They'd find us in a week

When the cattle show fear

After the insects have made their claim

After the foxes have known our taste

I'd be home with you, I'd be home with you

[Bridge:  Karen Cowley, Hozier]

They'd find us in a week (We lay here for years or for hours)

When the weather gets hot (So long we'd become the flowers)

They'd find us in a week (We lay here for years or for hours)

When the cattle show fear (So long we'd become the flowers)

[Chorus: Karen Cowley & Hozier]

And they'd find us in a week

When the buzzards get loud

After the insects have made their claim

After the foxes have known our taste

[Outro: Karen Cowley & Hozier]

After the raven has had his say

I'd be home with you, I'd be home with you

I'd be home with you, I'd be home with you

I'd be home with you, I'd be home with you