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Too Sweet is Hozier's first #1 hit, released in 2024. Inspired by Dante's Inferno, the song is about gluttony and follows a speaker who lives a jaded, overindulgent life and is put off by his love interest’s positive, sweet disposition.
The Lyrics of Too Sweet:
It can't be said I'm an early bird
It's 10:00 before I say a word
Baby I can never tell
How do you sleep so well
You keep tellin' me to live right
To go to bed before the daylight
But then you wake up for the sunrise
You know you don't gotta pretend
Baby now and then
Don't you just wanna wake up
Dark as a lake
Smellin' like a bonfire
Lost in a haze
If you're drunk on life babe
I think it's great
But while in this world
I think I'll take my whiskey neat
My coffee black and my bed at three
You're too sweet for me
You're too sweet for me
I take my whiskey neat
My coffee black and my bed at three
You're too sweet for me
You're too sweet for me
I aim low
I aim true and the ground's where I go
I work late where I'm free from the phone
And the job gets done
But you worry some I know
But who wants to live forever babe
You treat your mouth as if it's Heaven's gate
The rest of you like you're the TSA
I wish that I could go along
Babe don't get me wrong
You know you're bright as the morning
As soft as the rain
Pretty as a vine
As sweet as a grape
If you can sit in a barrel
Maybe I'll wait
Until that day
I'd rather take my whiskey neat
My coffee black and my bed at three
You're too sweet for me
You're too sweet for me
I take my whiskey neat
My coffee black and my bed at three
You're too sweet for me
You're too sweet for me
I take my whiskey neat
My coffee black and my bed at three
You're too sweet for me
You're too sweet for me
