GOD DAMNIT
MY HOZIER OBSESSION IS GOING TOO FAR‼️‼️‼️
I AM NOW LINKING MULTIPLE HOZIER SONGS NOT ONLY TO KURAS AND LEANDER BUT TO GRIM
SO I'M GONNA TELL YOU EXACTLY WHAT SONGS ARE REMINDING ME OF HIM BECAUSE THE BRAINROT FROM FINISHING MY FIRST PLAYTHROUGH IS VERY REAL
there's so many...
cut just so the post doesn't look too long
OBVIOUSLY THIS ONE HAS TO BE FIRST SUNSHINE.
"But whose heart would not take flight?
Betray the moon as acolyte
On first and fierce affirming sight
Of sunlight, sunlight, sunlight"
"Once I had wondered what was holdin' up the ground
But I can see that all along, love, it was you all the way down
Leave it now, I am sky-bound
If you need to, darling, lean your weight to me
We'll float away, but if we fall
I only pray, don't fall away from me"
THE WAY I HAD TO STOP MID PLAYTHROUGH TO PLAY THIS SONG ON REPEAT AND THEN CONTINUE
"My life was a storm, since I was born
How could I fear any hurricane?
If someone asked me at the end
I'll tell them put me back in it
Darling, I would do it again, ah, ah
If I could hold you for a minute
Darling, I'd go through it again, ah, ah"
AGAIN WITH THE LIGHT
"Could this be how every day begins?
The sky set to burst
The gold and the rust
The colour erupts
You filling my cup
The sun coming up
Like I lived my whole life
Before the first light"
psychopomp... get it cuz he's... the grim reaper...
"The feeling came late
I'm still glad I met you
The memory hurts
But does me no harm
Your hand in my pocket
To keep us both warm
The poor thing in the road
Its eye still glistening
The cold wet of your nose
The Earth from a distance
See how it shines"
"Some part of me must have died
The first time that you called me baby
And some part of me came alive
The first time that you called me baby
These days I think I owe my life
To flowers that were left here by my mother
Ain't that like them, gifting life to you again
This life lived mostly underground
Unknowing either sight nor sound
'Til reaching up for sunlight
Just to be ripped out by the stem"
"When you move
I'm put to mind of all that I wanna be
When you move
I could never define all that you are to me
So move me, baby
Shake like the bough of a willow tree
You do it naturally
Move me, baby"
and last, but certainly not least,
"I didn't care much how long I lived
But I swear I thought I dreamed her
She never asked me once about the wrong I did
When my time comes around
Lay me gently in the cold, dark earth
No grave can hold my body down
I'll crawl home to her"
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I just wanna bitch about how amazing Hoziers music is. This is unlikely to have any sensible order to it and most has probs been said before but who cares?
I just really wanna sit the guy down and pick apart his brain. Unfortunately, this would never work in real life because, a., I'm really bad at coming up with questions, and b. I will never meet the man.
Regardless, I think his songs, the lyrics in particular, are just so beautiful. They read like poetry. I love that hes not afraid to put his political views in songs, but it also never feels like hes attacking those who dont agree with him (I say as if I disagree with him). For example, take me to church was a big fuck you to the catholic church and Christians loved that shit. It's probably his shit enunciation in all honesty.
I also love how being Irish is such a key part of his music. Knowing that can help deepen your understanding of his discography. This is especially obvious with eat your young and john swift's essay (don't ask me its name I cant be fucked looking it up). Knowing just the jist of that essay brings a whole new level of meaning to that song, and it's so amazing. I think its particularly fitting as we are currently in a cost of living crisis. "You cant afford to eat? Sell your children to the rich for food!"
I also really love butchered tongue. (Disclaimer: this may in part be due to properly listening to the lyrics for the first time right after I finished reading Babel. Lol.) Anyways, I live in a place where my ancestors were the colonisers, I know this. I don't really have a right to this song. However, a different section of my ancestors were kinda colonised, or at least have suffered injuries to their language (my dad's welsh). I did not grow up in that country, I have 0 experience with that culture. I wish I did. My nephew and niece went to a Welsh speaking school and I'm jealous. Instead, I live in a country my ancestors colonised and am forced (? I dont think that's quite the right way to put it but here we be) to learn the language of the colonised in school. Yes, it's important to preserve this language, I just wish I was more connected to my own culture rather than that of this place on the complete opposite side if the world. I probably sound like a cunt but here we be.
Honestly tho, Andrew needs to chill. Like, babes, I love you, but I'm too dumb for this shit, pls simplify. Or at the very least find a translator to translate your lyrics to idiot speak for people like me with no brain cells. Ily.
Anyways, heres some of my fave lyrics from the new album, in no particular order with a little explanation cause I cant help myself:
I may not be great but I'm grateful to get through
My life was a storm since I was born, how could I fear any hurricane?
Allow the ground to find its brutal way to me (I particularly love this one as it takes the idea of love always being soft and is like fuck no, love is violent and bloody and viscious and painful, but so worth it)
I wanna be the shadow when my bright futures behind me (suggesting it only goes down hill from here baby!)
You and I burned out our steam chasing someone else's dream
My name would always hit my ears as such an awful sound (mood)
And the soul, if that's what you call it, uneasy ally if the body
These days I think I owe my life to flowers that were left here by my mother, ain't that like them, gifting life to you again?
Heaven is not fit to house a love like you and I
Anyways, I could add more but I'll leave it there.
Take home message: Hoziers great and I'm dumb
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