I think it’s just kinda ironic that Hozier released a song dedicated to the destruction of native culture and language, and most of you seem to be allergic to referring to the Irish language as Irish.
Gaelic is an umbrella term that describes many languages, mainly Irish, Welsh, and Scots Gaelic. Gaelic is not an actual language (or at least not anymore). All three are distinct languages with their own spellings and grammar. In the De Selby bts video Hozier himself refers to it as Irish.
You would not refer to Spanish as romantic when it could also mean French and Italian. Show some respect.
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honey, when you kill the lights / and kiss my eyes / i feel like a person for a moment of my life
want to be when you fall on me like night, every time / and i want to be so far from sight and mind / i wanna kill the lights
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Thinking a lot already about Hozier saying “I wanna run against a world that’s turning” in De Selby II and already feeling just absolutely sick to my stomach I keep saying he can’t keep getting away with this but at this point lord I worry I want him to
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the song of achilles, madeline miller
de selby (part 2), hozier
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I'D BLOCK THE SUN - IF YOU WANT IT DONE
I’ve been listening to Unreal, Unearth by Hozier on repeat. Originally this piece came from De Selby Pt2 - really loved that hook in the chorus - but became a lot more as I was creating it. I wanted it to embody both songs, like a tapestry. Art is slow because this music makes me want to take my time and imbue it with meaning.
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hozier's intro to de selby in amsterdam
'[song] talks about the fact that we all live in a world of mirrors, and everybody we know and everybody we meet reflects us and meets us and we are reflected by everyone we know and that can be hard sometimes and it can be.. you know when we meet somebody that we haven't seen in years and they are reflecting us in a mirror that is years old and it feels distorted, and that can feel tough and [it] talks about these long walks that you take in Connemara, in nights that are so dark and so peaceful, like you're existing in a night that existed before nights existed and talks about how that is when all mirroring is gone from the world, and you're free from everything, and I suppose that's where this song sort of starts.. and it's called De Selby'
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(if I was any closer, I could lose me/
if I fade away, let me fade away)
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stream unreal unearth by hozier NOW 👊 digital painting referenced from the music video for de selby (pt.2) on the same album by hozier, featuring domnhall gleeson.
close ups under the cut
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How have I not seen anyone make this yet
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"I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world." - the song of achilles, madeline miller
"I'd still know you, not being shown you
I only need the workin' of my hands" - de selby (part 2), hozier
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The perfection of this music video, it’s not even fair
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De Selby (Hoziest's Version)
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At last, when all of the world is asleep
You take in the blackness of air
The likes of a darkness so deep
That God at the start couldn't bear
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