#no grave can hold my body down ill crawl home to her

[corneliaavenue]

reblog and put in the tags a lyric that absolutely cuts you. im so curious to see what makes everyone hurt

[hi-intrepid-heroes]

71

71 work song - hozier

send me a number and i'll tell you what spotify wrapped song it corresponds to!

[teabutmakeitazure]

Hozier songs are peak yearning

[dearinglovebot]

do you ever get a little crazy about how in fallen kingdom the break up argument is “I left” “because I told you to” but at the climax of the movie claire is telling him to go, to save maisie instead but he says “I can’t leave you here” and must be forced again to leave (because she told him to). then later in dominion the plane is going down and it’s that scenario all over again. except he’s telling her to leave, to save herself because maisie needs one of them alive, and he simply cannot leave her again even if he tried. “I always come back” and he is incapable of anything else

[lunas-worldofchaos]

kanej is so hozier coded

"all that we intend is scrawled in sand it slips right through our hand"

"the only heaven I'll be sent to is when I'm alone with you"

"i'll tell you my sins, and you can sharpen your knife"

"fell in love with the fire long ago with each love I could lose i was never the same"

"you knew who I was with every step that I ran to you"

"holding on to you while you drag me through stormy weather"

"and when I pull you close, it's like you're holding back"

"before we turn to strangers tryna love in the dark tell it to my heart"

"her fight and fury is fiery, oh, but she loves"

"no grave can hold my body down i'll crawl home to her"

"but I swear I thought I dreamed her she never asked me once about the wrong I did"

"if the Lord don't forgive me i'd still have my baby and my babe would have me"

[kirnet]

also have an atton playlist <3

[kalemakar]

goddamn i want to love someone the way hozier writes songs 😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩

[can-u-like-stop]

Work Song by Hozier is so ghostsoap

[oscarisaacasimov]

Work Song is a literal work song!?

This song's POV is someone in a labor camp.

No grave can hold my body down, I'll crawl home to her is not just "this loving is so good, I’ll resurrect to get some more" but "I am trapped in a physically bad place, and death is my best chance of going home"

Nina Simone, a noted Hozier influence, also wrote a "Work Song" https://genius.com/Nina-simone-work-song-lyrics and this is a deliberate homage. The tempo and regular beat of Hozier's "Work Song" fit exactly as a work song (compared with To Be Alone which has a changing time signature and changing tempo).

First verse:

Boys workin' on empty Is that the kinda way to face the burning heat? I just think about my baby I'm so full of love I could barely eat There's nothing sweeter than my baby I'd never want once from the cherry tree 'Cause my baby's sweet as can be She give me toothaches just from kissin' me

Seems to be set in the American South and not Ireland. Hozier takes 4 couplets to talk about his hunger, this repetition fits the genre of work songs and also seems to be a literal need for food, not just a yearning. Middle verse:

Boys, when my baby found me I was three days on a drunken sin I woke with her walls around me Nothin' in her room but an empty crib And I was burnin' up a fever 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

Our guy is in an altered state both now and at the time of this memory - drunken, fevered, probably dreaming. His baby forgave him before for the drinking and the "wrong he did", so he hopes to reunite when his current ordeal ends. Past and present are blurring, his picture of home and safety with "walls around" and "an empty crib" has been colored by his confinement in jail.

Final Verse:

My baby never fret none About what my hands and my body done If the Lord don't forgive me I'd still have my baby and my babe would have me When I was kissing on my baby And she put her love down soft and sweet In the lowland plot I was free Heaven and hell were words to me

Our narrator seems to have done some real harm, a sin beyond drunkenness or lust, causing guilt and his jail sentence. The final couplet, I often see written as "In the low lamplight I was free" which is a nice sensual moment, but the official lyrics are more powerful:

"In the lowland plot I was free" At the moment of his unglamorous death and burial, he is ready to "crawl home to her" covering the physical distance between them, rejoicing in his freedom from jail, God, and even death itself.

[icarusgf]

work song bf francesca gf

[corneliaavenue-ao3]

Listened to Work Song by Hozier, thought of Hinny, almost swerved into traffic

[ruiduscreated]

tags - (i will forget some for sure)

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🔴🌙  *  /   threads   /   watch the world from the sidelines.

🔴🌙  *  /  meta   /   never feel too good in crowds with folks around.

🔴🌙  *  /   inbox   /     broken glass saw the blood run from my veins.

🔴🌙  *  /   ooc   /     taylor swift lyric bot.

🔴🌙  *  /   self promo   /     its hard for me to go home to be so lonely.

🔴🌙  *  /   promos   /     never split the party.

🔴🌙  *  /   memes   /     you could call me lady or you could call me something else like that.

🔴🌙  *  /   wishlist   /     violent delights.

🔴🌙  *  /   headcanons   /     lullabies dont comfort me.

🔴🌙   *  /   wishlist   /       everyone else is just noise.

🔴🌙  *  /   powers   /     all this running around. i cant fight it much longer.

🔴🌙 *  /   abilities   /     i feel the chemicals kicking in.

🔴🌙 *  /   isms   /     sad cowboy lesbian music.

🔴🌙 *  /   aesthetics   /     know its for the better.

🔴🌙 *  /   crack   /     lesbian request denied.

verses -

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ships -

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[yutolnukai]

hozier’s work song is so yuto coded

[ur-friendly-neighborhood-simp]

did hozier seriously write "when my time comes around / lay me gently in the cold dark earth / no grave can hold my body down / ill crawl home to her" and expected me not to absolutely lose my shit

[roboobin]

i never got work song by hozier but suddenly everything clicked this week. like YES indeed! no grave CAN hold my body down! ill crawl home to her! thanks mr. hozier

[drop-cherries]

saw you need requests

what about Simon with fem!reader who has abandonment issues? He knows it takes a while to get you to fully trust people and knows that due to ptsd, you'll have flare ups. Like you get those slight insecurity thoughts while he's gone and he knows you just need some reassurances. He hold you close and kisses you softly, whispering how much he loves you and that not a moment goes by where he doesn't crave to be near you

Like that part of Work Song by Hozier

"No grave can hold my body down, I'll crawl home to her"

thanks hun for the request!! Sorry this took so long

Ghost x reader

Cw: insecurities, fluff, domestic ghost, soft ghost, hurt comfort, picking at nails

A/n: this may be my last ghost drabble/fic for a while unless i get requests (requests are open) because im feeling more towards writing for the marauders, xoxo birdy

The day started of wonerfully, as is was fianlly the day your boyfriend Simon gets home from a deployment. But as it hets later and no sign of him the thought creep in, ones you have not experienced in a long time. The self doubt that leads to the horrid self deprication.

The thought of never being good enough for anyone ever. How you'll always be alone. That no matter what you do no one will want you.

It took years to finally let Simon in, the post tramstic stress from you final deployment, one where a collegue turned on your task force. And left you with scares only Simon has seen, and a distrustment of almost everyone you come across.

But some how Simon got through to you, some how he broke through the barriers of haunting insecurities. It was like he put on sound proof headphones the thoughts suddely quieted.

You loved him more than anyone you've ever known. So him being late has got you on edge. Your nails picking at your cuticles in an anxious fret. You're so lost in thought you donr hear the door finally open. And footsteps leading towards you.

Suddenly hand are on your shoulders and you jerk, instinctively fighting off the attacker.

But there is no attacker and a voice whispers in your ear.

"Hey...hey its me love, its me."

Your jerking ceases and you look up, Simon staring back at you and suddenly tears start falling and you let out a wretched sob. Pulling him towards you.

"I thought you left me." You say between sobs. Your words coming out muffled again his chest.

Oh no sweetheart, im never going to leave you." He says pulling you to his lap and rubbing your back until your sobs cease to hiccups.

"I'm so sorry, you were late and i got nervous, and caught in my own head, i didnt mean to. You didnt reply so i thougjt you were gone." You ramble on Simon's eyes staring at you. He shishes you with a kiss on the forehead.

"There was weather issues so the plane got delayed." He says. "And besides, no grave can hold my body down, ill always crawl home to you...no matter what."