Hozier – Jackie and Wilson

[Verse 1]

So tired trying to see from behind the red in my eyes

No better version of me I could pretend to be tonight

Soul deep in this swill with the most familiar of swine

For reasons wretched and divine

[Verse 2]

She blows out of nowhere, a roman candle of the wild

Laughing her way through my feeble disguise

No other version of me I would rather be tonight

And lord, she found me just in time

[Pre-Chorus 1]

'Cause with my mid-youth crisis all said and done

I need to be youthfully felt 'cause, God, I never felt young

[Chorus]

She's gonna save me, call me baby

Run her hands through my hair

She'll know me crazy, sooth me daily

Better yet, she wouldn't care

We'll steal a Lexus, be detectives

Ride 'round picking up clues

We'll name our children Jackie and Wilson

Raise 'em on rhythm and blues

[Verse 3]

Lord, it'd be great to find a place we could escape sometime

Me and my Isis growing black irises in the sunshine

Every version of me dead and buried in the yard outside

We'd sit back and watch the world go by

[Pre-Chorus 2]

Happy to lie back, watch it burn and rust

We tried the world

Good God it wasn't for us

[Chorus]

She's gonna save me, call me baby

Run her hands through my hair

She'll know me crazy, sooth me daily

Better yet, she wouldn't care

We'll steal a Lexus, be detectives

Ride 'round picking up clues

We'll name our children Jackie and Wilson

Raise 'em on rhythm and blues

[Instrumental]

[Verse 4]

Cut clean from the dream that night, let my mind reset

Looking up from a cigarette, she's already left

I start digging up the yard for what's left of me in our little vignette

For whatever poor soul is coming next

[Chorus]

She's gonna save me, call me baby

Run her hands through my hair

She'll know me crazy, sooth me daily

Better yet, she wouldn't care

We'll steal a Lexus, be detectives

Ride 'round picking up clues

We'll name our children Jackie and Wilson

Raise 'em on rhythm and blues