LYRICS: Hozier – Unknown (Angel To Me)*

Lyrics from TikTok Live

[Verse 1]

You know the distance never made a difference to me

I swam a lake of fire, I’d have walked across the floor of any sea

Ignored the vastness between all that can be seen

And all that we believe

[Chorus]

So I thought you were like an angel to me

[Verse 2]

Funny how true colors shine in darkness and in secrecy

If there were scarlet flags, they washed out in the mind of me

Where a blinding light shone on you every night

Either side of my sleep

[Chorus]

Where you were held frozen like an angel to me

[Post-Chorus]

It ain’t the being alone

(Sha-la-la)

It ain’t the empty home, baby

You know I’m good on my own

Sha-la-la, baby, no, it’s more the being unknown

So much of the living, love, is the being unknown

[Verse 3]

You called me angel for the first time, my heart leapt from me

You smile now, I can see its pieces still stuck in your teeth

And what’s left of it, I listen to it tick

Every tedious beat

[Chorus]

Going unknown as any angel to me

[Post-Chorus]

It ain’t the being alone

(Sha-la-la, sha-la-la, la, la-la)

It ain’t the empty home, baby (Sha-la-la, la-la-la)

You know I’m good on my own

Sha-la-la, baby, no, it’s more the being unknown

And there are some people, love, who are better unknown

[Instrumental Outro]