Official Music Video
Butchered Tongue by Hozier
Lyrics & Translation
English
As a child it was the place names
Singing at me as the first thing
How the mouth must be employed
In every corner of itself
To say "Appalacicola"
Or "Hushpukena" like "Gweebara"
A promise softly sung of somewhere else
And as a young man
Blessed to pass so many road signs
And have my foreign ear made fresh again
On each unlikely sound
But feel at home
Hearing a music
That few still understand
A butchered tongue still
Still singing here above the ground
The ears were chopped
From young men
If the pitch-cap didn't kill them
They are buried
Without scalp
In the shattered bedrock of our home
You may never know your fortune
Until the distance has been shown between
What is lost forever
And what can still be known
So far from home
To have a stranger call you darling
And have your guarded heart
Be lifted like a child up by the hand
In some town that just means
'Home' to them
With no translator left to sound
A butchered tongue
Still singing here above the ground
Spanish translations are provided by the LyricVerse team.
Spanish translation of Butchered Tongue by Hozier
Butchered Tongue* (original Hozier)
As a child it was the place names
Singing at me as the first thing
How the mouth must be employed
In every corner of itself
To say "Appalacicola"
Or "Hushpukena" like "Gweebara"
A promise softly sung of somewhere else
And as a young man
Blessed to pass so many road signs
And have my foreign ear made fresh again
On each unlikely sound
But feel at home
Hearing a music
That few still understand
A butchered tongue still
Still singing here above the ground
The ears were chopped
From young men
If the pitch-cap didn't kill them
They are buried
Without scalp
In the shattered bedrock of our home
You may never know your fortune
Until the distance has been shown between
What is lost forever
And what can still be known
So far from home
To have a stranger call you darling
And have your guarded heart
Be lifted like a child up by the hand
In some town that just means
'Home' to them
With no translator left to sound
A butchered tongue
Still singing here above the ground
Butchered Tongue (traducción LyricVerse Team)
De niño eran los nombres de los lugares
Cantándome como lo primero
Cómo la boca debe ser empleada
En cada rincón de sí misma
Para decir "Appalacicola"
O "Hushpukena" como "Gweebara"
Una promesa suavemente cantada de otro lugar
Y como un joven
Bendecido de pasar tantas señales de carretera
Y tener mi oído extranjero renovado de nuevo
En cada sonido improbable
Pero sentirme en casa
Oyendo una música
Que pocos aún entienden
Una lengua masacrada aún
Aún cantando aquí sobre la tierra
Las orejas fueron cortadas
De hombres jóvenes
Si la gorra de brea no los mató
Están enterrados
Sin cuero cabelludo
En la roca madre destrozada de nuestro hogar
Puede que nunca conozcas tu fortuna
Hasta que la distancia se haya mostrado entre
Lo que se pierde para siempre
Y lo que aún puede ser conocido
Tan lejos de casa
Que un extraño te llame cariño
Y tener tu corazón guardado
Ser levantado como un niño de la mano
En algún pueblo que solo significa
'Hogar' para ellos
Sin traductor que quede para sonar
Una lengua masacrada
Aún cantando aquí sobre la tierra
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