I watched Hozier play this in some videos and this is what it looked and sounded like he was doing. 

[Intro/Verses]
         
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[Chorus]
            
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[Intro]
                    (2x) 

[Verse]
         
Boys workin on

        
 empty
         
Is that the ki

              
nda way to fac

              
e the burning 

       
heat?
         
I just think a

              
bout my baby
         
I'm so full of

            
 love I could 

barely eat
         
There's nothin

              
g sweeter than

          
 my baby
         
I never want o

              
nce from the c

           
herry tree
         
Cause my baby'

              
s sweet as can

    
 be
  
She give me to

othaches just 

from kissin me

[Chorus]
        
When, my, time

              
 comes around
          
....Lay me gen

              
tly in the col

       
d dark earth
            
...No grave ca

  
n hold my body

 down

....I'll crawl

 home to her

[Verse 2]
         
....That's whe

              
n my baby foun

      
d me
         
I was three da

              
ys on a drunke

      
n sin
         
...I woke with

              
 her walls aro

        
und me
         
Nothin in her 

      
room but an em

pty crib
         
.....And I was

              
 burnin up a f

      
ever
         
I didn't care 

              
much how long 

        
I lived
         
.....But I swe

              
ar I thought I

             
 dreamed her
         
She never aske

          
d me once abou

t the wrong I 

did

[Chorus]
        
When, my, time

              
 comes around
          
....Lay me gen

              
tly in the col

       
d dark earth
            
...No grave ca

  
n hold my body

 down

....I'll crawl

 home to her

[Chorus]
        
When, my, time

              
 comes around
          
....Lay me gen

              
tly in the col

       
d dark earth
            
...No grave ca

  
n hold my body

 down

....I'll crawl

 home to her

[Verse 3]
         
.....My baby n

                
ever fret none
         
About what my 

              
hands and my b

          
ody done
         
.....If the Lo

              
rd don't forgi

       
ve me
         
I'd still have

              
 my baby and m

              
y babe would h

        
ave me
         
.....When I wa

              
s kissing on m

        
y baby
         
And she put he

              
r love down so

             
ft and sweet
         
....In the low

              
land plot I wa

   
s free

Heaven and hell were words to me

[Chorus]
        
When, my, time

              
 comes around
          
....Lay me gen

              
tly in the col

       
d dark earth
            
...No grave ca

  
n hold my body

 down

....I'll crawl

 home to her

[Chorus]
        
When, my, time

              
 comes around
          
....Lay me gen

              
tly in the col

       
d dark earth
            
...No grave ca

  
n hold my body

 down

....I'll crawl

 home to her

[Outro]