Chords for Hozier - Hozier On Moment's Silence (Common Tongue)

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Moment of Silence [Em] is an interesting one in that it definitely lends itself to a blues and gospel tradition
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a [Em] development on a riff that [E] I stumbled [Ab] across, a mountain blues drone.
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_ _ _ _ And a few things also, [Ab] somebody had switched me on to some sort of website at one point,
I think it was an interview I did with somebody where they were asking me about lyrics specifically
and saying, I think is it Genius is the website where people analyse your lyrics or something
so people will interpret your lyrics and go, I think he meant this, blah blah blah, this is about this, blah blah blah.
But one was like a lyric, one was a lyric to _ Take Me To Church that I can't [N] remember exactly what it said
but it was like, obviously this is a reference to oral sex, which was something that I hadn't picked up on.
_ And which I, usually I would never say that, I _ _ think it's all a bit, you know what I mean, it's far better when people [G] can interpret their own stuff.
But I was surprised to see that, that kind of steered me in a way, if you want a metaphor about oral sex, right, here you go.
And then One Moment's Silence was born, I think the lyric in my head at the time was,
at this moment's silence when my baby puts her mouth on me.
Not to be crude, [A] but the song is not as crude as that, it's kind of in [Ab] the verses about the relationship [Em] between power [G] and sex.
So [C] it's [Am] between [Em] people in power and oral sex.
Take me to church, [G] I'll leave you there.
_ _ [C] If it [Am] comes in the common time [Em] of your livin', _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
what yields the [Em] need for those who'd lead us oh so morally? _
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The lyric being, you know, what yields the need for those who'd lead us oh so morally,
those [Em] that would do the same that we do through their deformity, who view the deed as power's creed, [Em] as pure authority,
[E] this moment's silence when my [Em] baby puts her mouth on me.
Church, [C] I'll be getting out on Tuesday.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Again, I [Em] hope it's taken with a pinch of salt, the kind of tongue in cheek, but it was sort of this, if you want a metaphor for oral [G] sex, here you go.
So yeah, [C] that's One Moment's Silence.
If it comes in the common [Em] time of your livin', it be thankful, son, [G] for loving me.
[C] If it comes in the [Am] common time [Em] of your livin', I'll be thankful.
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