Eat Your Young - Hozier

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Tuning: Gm, E A D G B E

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[Intro]
         
         

[Verse 1]
     
I'm starvin', 

darlin'
 
Let me put my 

lips to someth

ing
            
Let me wrap my

              
 teeth around 

      
the world
       
Start carvin',

 darlin'
    
I wanna smell 

the dinner coo

king
            
I wanna feel t

              
he edges start

      
 to burn

[Pre-Chorus]
             
Honey, I wanna

        
 race you to t

   
he table
            
If you hesitat

        
e, the gettin'

 is gone
             
I won't lie if

          
 there's somet

         
hing to be gai

ned
            
There's money 

              
to be made, wh

  
atever's still

 to come

[Chorus]

Get some
              
Pull up the la

              
dder when the 

  
flood comes
              
Throw enough r

              
ope until the 

 
legs have swun

g
              
Seven new ways

              
 that you can 

 
eat your young
         
Come and get s

ome
              
Skinning the c

              
hildren for a 

 
war drum
              
Putting food o

              
n the table se

       
lling bombs an

d guns
              
It's quicker a

              
nd easier to e


at your young

[Post-Chorus Instrumental]
         
         

[Verse 2]
          
You can't buy 

this fineness
 
Let me see the

 heat get to y

ou
            
Let me watch t

              
he dressing st

        
art to peel
        
It's a kindnes

s, highness
  
Crumbs enough 

for everyone
            
Old and young 

              
are welcome to

      
 the meal

[Pre-Chorus]
             
Honey, I'm mak

        
in' sure the t

 
able's made
            
We can celebra

          
te, the good t

hat we've done
             
I won't lie if

          
 there's somet

         
hing still to 

take
            
There is groun

              
d to break, wh

  
atever's still

 to come

[Chorus]

Get some
              
Pull up the la

              
dder when the 

  
flood comes
              
Throw enough r

              
ope until the 

 
legs have swun

g
              
Seven new ways

              
 that you can 

 
eat your young
         
Come and get s

ome
              
Skinning the c

              
hildren for a 

 
war drum
              
Putting food o

              
n the table se

       
lling bombs an

d guns
              
It's quicker a

              
nd easier to e


at your young

[Outro]
         
         

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