do you know i could break beneath the weight of the goodness love i still carry for you, that i’d walk so far just to take the injury of finally knowing you. if you even care.
when hozier said "the bliss of not knowin' yourself with all the mirrorin' gone from the world" and when hozier said "i'd still know you, not being shown you, i only need the workin' of my hands" and when hozier said "the soul, if that's what you'd call it, uneasy ally of the body" and when hozier said "my life was a storm since i was born, how could i fear any hurricane?" and when hozier said "if you need to, darling, lean your weight on me" and when hozier said "let me put my lips to something, let me wrap my teeth around the world" and when hozier said "but i know being reckless and young is not how the damage gets done" and when hozier said "so someone with your eyes might come in time to hold me like water or, christ, hold me like a knife" and when hozier said "we didn't get it right, love, but we did our best" and when hozier said "as natural as another leg around you in the bed frame" and when hozier said "and have your guarded heart be lifted like a child up by the hand" and when hozier said "if i had his job, you would live forever" and when hozier said "the moment i knew i'd no choice but to love you" and when hozier said "you know the distance never made a difference to me" and when hozier said "i can scarce believe what i'm believing in"
how can Hozier just casually sing "sha la la" after breaking my heart and singing the beauty of the universe and creating poetry out of nowhere and capturing every emotion every expressed with THAT song's bridge
when hozier said "it ain't the being alone, it ain't the empty home... it's more the being unknown, so much of the living is the being unknown" and noah kahan said "now I know your name but not who you are" and mitski said "i need somebody to remember my name after all that I can do for them is done"
Loving is to be known and one of the tragedies of heartbreak is the being unknown of becoming a stranger to someone who used to know everything about you, and the inverse where they become a stranger to you as well.
Imagine writing a song about domestic abuse and toxic relationships and detailing how abuse victims find it so hard to leave a relationship because they still think there is love, or the victim knows the relationship is messed up and they don’t care because both people in the relationship are horrible, or how the victim wishes they never met their partner in the first place because of where they ended up. Imagine writing lyrics so raw, so deep, so bittersweet, all about how two people are wrong for each other and the relationship is going down in flames.
And then a bunch of couples decide to play that song at their wedding or call it “their song”.