Hozier - Jackie and Wilson
Time: 0:21
No better version of me I could pretend to be tonight
So deep in this swill with the most familiar of swine
For reasons wretched and divine

drink; feed pigs
Heard in 40 songs (42M+ combined views) — most famously in "Jackie and Wilson" by Hozier.
Updated August 24, 2026
Time: 0:21
No better version of me I could pretend to be tonight
So deep in this swill with the most familiar of swine
For reasons wretched and divine

Time: 3:21
It's by the sea and at nights end
That's when the sin and swill begin
That's when he had that certain light inside his head

Time: 0:19
I would rather have the dentist and drill
Then this swine in the swill
And if you were a bill, I would veto

Time: 3:30
Inside around it like a drill bit turns anatomy into a visceral
Swill grating, excavating and making its way through the
Body like a bore finding its way out the

Time: 1:03
Yeah, a fascist twerp, it's the song I hate, it's the song I hate
Black robe and swill, I believe Anita Hill
Judge will rot in hell, it's the song I hate, it's the song I hate

Time: 1:00
From the Corcovado to the Amazon
And the caipirinhas, indeed you'll swill
When you come to Brazil

Time: 1:15
Baby, I've been letting my perception of love and your exes break me
And it's been like, drinkin' swill, I'm takin' all my baggage to the landfill
'Cause I don't want another scenario where we

Time: 0:22
Little pinot pouring out my gills
Pass a carafe perhaps I'll swill
My grief may leak but can't congeal

Time: 0:47
And the blister packs coats and crumpled up notes appear
It's a break from the swill, the piss they distill around here
It's a break from the swill, the piss they distill around here

Time: 0:03
Tick, tock, go the death watch beetles in él presidente's swill
Pop, pop, goes the Cliquot magnum at the reading of the will

Time: 2:02
Poppin' the bottle and tippin' the fifth of that to goosey
Shinnin' for Swill and Halle, smokin' for Lil' Shawney
Still reppin' bad news and all my soldiers fallen

Time: 2:29
And I'm weak so weak when you're putting it down on me
You be the ambrosia I swill
Digging on X factors swear I will

Time: 0:51
I exercise my fucking right to kill
Vicious lies you propagate your swill
Of you're whole kind I've had my fill

Time: 2:05
They're laughing and they're drinking
On the swill of overtime
And no-one seems to know about

Time: 2:05
They're laughing and they're drinking
On the swill of overtime
And no-one seems to know about

Time: 2:45
To the cracks and creases and the dips in my will
As I am pushed toward the brink, I drink down arid swill
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Time: 1:24
Sgt. Hetfield? s Motorbreath pub band
It? s wonderful to drink beer, It? s certainly a swill
You? re such a lovely audience

Time: 1:27
Tell her make this one a double
Swillin' down the ave
Sippin' dirty cash daily

Time: 0:51
Little white jug, me and Kilburn Towers,
as we sit on the hill and we drink and we swill
till the early hours,

Time: 1:54
Wish you could help me, give me a pill...
Just a little drink that I could swill.
A little something, anything, anything, I'll try all...

Time: 0:56
Kelly tell me all you like
If it's filthy films and swill I think we just might
Kelly tell me all you'd live without

Time: 1:57
Stupoured and ill-humoured
You left her with the swine and swill
Didn't you?

Time: 1:13
Have you suffered enough? Bled all over yourself?
It's a shame to see you spill all that rotting swill
Seemed as though you've delved

Time: 2:07
Faecal tripe, take the bite
Urinary swill, take your fill
Squeeze out the pus, perforate the rash

Time: 1:47
DIE!
They gorge on swill
Cum-sucking priests who can't get their fill

Time: 1:20
Find the secrets of this city and its alleyways
In the bins behind the swill cafés, mid the clean picked chicken bones
In cartilages, spitter crones, small heart beats and red big moans

Time: 0:54
Don't care what you think. You think I care?
I'll call you Richard, if you will, you bag of swill.
Define your spine; you're standing in line.

Time: 1:16
We'll make sure it goes nowhere so you won't get ideas
Triumph of the swill
Triumph of the swill

Time: 0:13
pollution. Bleed the well dry pulsing through the arteries. Corroded
swollen veins. Wallow in the swill of the storm drain runoff, born
blistered and sterilized. Bloated chemical backslide, already drowning

Time: 0:07
Bill Hilley, he's the king of the hill
Bill Hilley, he hits the sour mash swill
Bill Hilley, he made it off of the farm

Time: 12:58
The collard greens waved in the wind like the sails of ships
And the wasps swam in the mint bloom's viscous swill
And you, again you

Time: 0:25
Now watch as it turns to a cup
Of your finest swill
And, whoa! Where'd it go?

Time: 0:25
So we took a personality pill
And something red to swill
And now every fire has gone out

Time: 0:41
Lil, Phil DeVille and Cool hand Bill
They came to dance, they came to swill
Timmy Chunks got lost on route 18

Time: 0:08
In found the bay, a blue whale rose
Gonna drown in the swill from city sewer hose
Summer's longer, delta's gashed

Time: 1:07
People in Chicago always brag about Old Style
Before I drink that swill again, it's gonna be a while
Hey you motherfuckers

Time: 1:02
Rattle your diamonds and pearls
There's swill for the swine and pills for the mind
More rhythm and booze for the girls

Time: 2:57
And who'll be by your side?
Regret is a pill to swill that never quite goes down
I pray that he is gentle and careful with your heart

Time: 1:37
Reckoning her near
And then she's gonna swill
I didn't build my raft in vain

Time: 0:59
This is me and you, but then I hit subtract (Then I hit subtract)
Now these bitches call me J Swill
On that track (J Swill on the track)
