First Time chords by Hozier

• Difficulty: Intermediate

🎸 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#      D#m7
These days I think I owe my life to flowers
                   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 that 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"