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hello !! i am here to brain dump about hozier :] i mainly ramble about lyrics but am also a professional at shit posting. i hope that impresses you :]
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It's not the talking, it's the doing
It's the hand that yearns for work
And its renewing
Of the self each time you try
Of purpose and of pride
It's not the waking, it's the rising
It's not what's in front but who's beside you
It's all that came before
And what it provides you
All those that held the line
Who wouldn't bow down and resign
It's not the waking, it's the rising
"i wouldn't be seen walking through any door some place you're not welcome to" is so interesting to me because dante was physically unable to go anywhere virgil wasn't permitted to. it walks the line of love and codependency, and what happens when you lose yourself to devotion. "i do not do this for myself; i'd walk through hell on living feet for you" essentially saying i've gone too far and ended up somewhere i'm not meant to be just through the act of following, the same way dante simply followed virgil through the gates of hell because he seemed like a beacon but ended up in a darkness he couldn't even comprehend. HOZIER !!! YOU GENIUS !!!
Reblogged icarianss
not to be that person but what do you mean butchered tongue is the least streamed song on unreal unearth. what do you mean people can listen to lines like "and as a young man blessed to pass so many road signs / and have my foreign ear made fresh again on each unlikely sound / but feel at home hearing a music that few still understand" and just. move on. sort that song into the skip file. what. what do you mean.
anyways butchered tongue is the best song, the most haunting song off unreal unearth.
y'all just don't fucking listen to lyrics anymore.
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me and the mutuals talking about motifs and symbolism
what absolutely floors me is the way "Unknown (Nth)" is the song for Treachery, and yet is more about betraying ourselves rather than being betrayed. hozier says that, when the break-up happened, it felt as though his lover was chewing on his heart while it still beats, but he can only blame himself because entering a relationship is acknowledging the chance it may fail and still going through with it. AND THEN HE SAYS "i'd walk so far just to take the injury of finally knowing you" - meaning he would do it all again with the knowledge of failure because isn't that what he risked in the first place anyway? ,,,"Unknown (Nth)", the weapon that you are-
#if u guys want i will go full dante mode on how this relates to the most DEVASTATING part of inferno#btw ik i posted the article on this ages ago but im back to talk on it again#and how unknown links to eat your young because of it#the unknown > count ugolino > eat your young pipeline goes crazy#if his ( apparent ) new music in march is about inferno...#u guys will have to suffer so much ramblings from me im sorry in advance#hozier's inferno#unreal unearth#unknown/nth#lyric analysis#hozier