First Time - Hozier, guitar chords

Published: 2023-12-06 17:47
Selection chords: Sarah Harris

Intro: C

Verse:
  C                        G
Remember once I told you about
      Dm7
How before I heard it from your mouth
    C                    G           Dm7
My name would always hit my ears as such an awful sound
         C                          G
And the soul, if thatʼs what youʼd call it
  Dm7                             C             G
Uneasy ally of the body, it felt nameless as a river
      F             Dm7
Undiscovered underground

Pre-chorus:
         C                   G
And the first time that you kissed me
        Dm7
I drank dry the River Lithe
     C                      G            Dm7
The Liffey would have been softer on my stomach all the same
          C               G
But you spoke some quick new music
     Dm7
That went so far to soothe this soul
       C             G         Dm7
As it was and ever shall be, unearth without a name

Chorus:
 C           G        Dm7
Some part of me must have died
      C                  G           F
The first time that you called me, "Baby"
      C          G        Dm7
And some part of me came alive
     C                    G          F
The first time that you called me, "Baby"

Verse:
       C                 G           Dm7
These days I think I owe my life to flowers
                                      C
To flowers that were left here by my mother
            G                  F
Ainʼt that like them, giftinʼ life to you again
      C                 G
This life lived mostly underground
 Dm7
Unknowinʼ either sight nor sound
       C                 G                F
ʼTil reachinʼ up for sunlight just to be ripped out by the stem

Pre-chorus:
          C            G
Sensing only now itʼs dyinʼ
       Dm7
Drying out, then drowning blindly
          C               G
Bloominʼ forth its every colour
        F
In the moments it has left
               C                G
To share the space with simple living things
 Dm7                                C              G
Infinitely suffering, but fighting off like all creation
     F
The absence of itself, anyway

Chorus:
 C           G        Dm7
Some part of me must have died
  C                  G          F
Each time that you called me, "Baby"
     C            G         Dm7
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   Dm7
Ooh-la-la, ooh-la-la
           C          G        F
Whatever keeps you around, it keeps you around
 C     G              Dm7
Ooh-la-la, come here, ooh-la-la
          C          G         F
Whatever keeps you around, it keeps you around

Verse:
      C                         G
The last time it was heard out loud
             Dm7                                 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
           Dm7
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            Dm7
Some part of me must have died
     C                    G          F
The final time that you called me, "Baby"
     C           G        Dm7
But some part of me came alive
     C          G          F
The final you called me, "Baby"