Uploaded August 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Official audio for “Anything But” by Hozier

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Lyrics

C’mere to me I wish I was a mayfly on the River Tay
I’d fit all my joys and my pleasures in one perfect day
I wish I was the sunlight just sitting on
The Mississippi
I’d settle for a shopping trolley in The Liffey
In a shot I’d swap my body for a body of water
Worry the cliffside top as a wave crashing over
I’d lower the world in a flood or better yet I’d cause a drought
If I was a riptide,
I wouldn’t take you out

I don’t wanna be anything
But I would do everything just to run away
I don’t wanna be anything like this at all
But I would do everything if you’d hear me say

Go look another way
Look another way

Look, I wanna be loud
So loud, I’m talking seismic
I wanna be soft as a single stone in a rain stick
I wanna be the thunder of a hundred thousand hooves moving quick
If was a stampede
You wouldn’t get a kick

I wanna be the shadow when my bright future’s behind me
I wanna be the last thing anybody ever sees I hear he touches your hand, and then you fly away together
If I had his job
You would live forever

I don’t wanna be anything
But I would do everything just to run away
I don’t wanna be anything like this at all
But I would do everything if you’d hear me say

Go look another way
Look another way

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