#to someone from a warm climate (Uiscefhuaraithe)

[thisphantomlife]

In the fetal position, sobbing.

[dirtyoldrocknroll]

Honestly I think this might've been the most beautiful version of To Someone From A Warm Climate I've ever heard

[awkwardmermaidhair]

Taking this opportunity with the hurricane to experience “To Someone From A Warm Climate” the way Hozier intended.

[justasmisunderstoodasloki]

The emotions you feel, the crying, and the chills you get when listening to Hozier are inevitable

[enby-licious]

That moment when De Selby (Part 1) comes up on shuffle and I am suddenly obligated to relisten to the entirely of Unreal Unearth start to finish.

[mosslikestrees]

i desperately want to think of a tattoo design for “to someone from a warm climate” - hozier but i just. can’t. how does one make a visual of that

[phillycheesesteakcore]

I would eat To Someone From A Warm Climate (Uiscefhuaraithe) if I could. I'd swallow it whole. I'd let it rest deep and low in my belly and never let it go.

[kryptoniteandcatnip]

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Hands in his pockets, just so ✨👌

[dragestil]

it happened easy, darlin / natural as another leg around you in the bed frame

📍 river dodder, dublin, ie

🎵“to someone from a warm climate (uiscefhuaraithe)” by hozier

[teenagemutantninjafangirl]

me when to someone from a warm climate (uiscefhuaraithe):

[dont-justdont]

i dont have the energy right now to dissect this but it's been on my mind and i feel like i cant be the only one who noticed the resemblance between "so someone with your eyes might come in time to hold me like water" (who we are) and "uiscefhuaraithe, the feel of coldness only water brings" (to someone from a warm climate (uiscefhuaraithe)) i feel like im missing something can someone with 2 functioning braincells help me with this

[thisphantomlife]

Just kill me, it would hurt less

(Source: rominaraggio)

[dirtyoldrocknroll]

Hozier explains what the word 'Uiscefhuaraithe' means

This is one of my favorite songs from the new album, so I was completely speechless when I realised I was about to hear it live

[unreal-unearthing]

Butchered Tongue and the double meaning. Butchered tongue as in a tongue (language) that has been a target of violence- a ‘dying’ language isn’t dying of natural causes, it’s being murdered.

But also, ‘butchering’ a language being a common phrase for clumsy attempts at a language. That to learn a language stolen by colonial violence means awkward, clumsy attempts at a new tongue that should’ve been second nature. It means ‘butchering’ the pronunciation at first.

And the way the song makes this clear - all the descriptions of violence done to the Irish and the Irish language by the British. But also the descriptions of struggling to work through pronunciations of a new tongue. The road signs he grew up around are in Irish, they sound like home, but he describes his own ear as foreign. all around him and yet he must carefully work his way through these words. The joy of there still being people around who can translate and teach Irish which isn’t true of all butchered tongues.

The violence of a language that has been butchered by colonial violence alongside the hope of new life that is contained in butchering the tongue as new learners clumsily find their way through a language that is both foreign and familiar.

[mediamaniameda]

The water motif in both Who We Are and To Someone From A Warmer Climate is so beautiful especially since water is a metaphor for love. The way love is approached is different in each song but the use of the same motif ties them together in a way. He really is a genius