Acquired Stardust
Claire Keane
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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Stranger Things
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Monterey Bay Aquarium
Misplaced Lens Cap
@theartofmadeline
Xuebing Du
if i look back, i am lost
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@hozierwords
Masterlist (so far)
Awful
Dog
Fire and Burning
Terms of Endearment (Babe, Honey, Baby, Love, Darling, Dear, Doll)
Water
Light
Darkness
"Of me"
Noise/sound words
Un- words
Plants and animals
Hands
Jesus, Christ, God, Lord
Pray, Prayer, Worship
Religion
so i ran some statistics and...
terms of endearment in hozier songs
throughout hozier's discography, not counting live and acoustic versions of existing songs and songs that don't belong to any era, 229 terms of endearment are used. in particular:
hozier (special edition) - 57 (3.56 per song)
wasteland, baby! (special edition) - 123 (6.83 per song)
unreal unearth: unending - 49 (1.88 per song)
the disparities here are pretty high. 'wasteland, baby!' alone accounts for more than half total terms of endearment. the numbers for 'unreal unearth' are so low because the surrounding EPs contain few love songs, and next to no terms of endearment at all. if we count only the main body of the album, the number becomes 42, or 2.63 per song. much closer to the self-titled amount, though still significantly lower.
when broken down into individual terms:
'baby' gets used the most, making up about half of all terms of endearment in the first 2 albums, before dropping to less than 1/4 in 'unreal unearth'. the use of 'honey' proportionally declines over time, while 'love' increases, eventually overtaking the former.
funnily, 'sunlight' only appears in one song, but gets used so much there, that it still makes a significant appearance in the overall statistics. (and i didn't even count every time the word gets used in the song, only the ones when it explicitly refers to a person.)
most interesting is the journey 'darling' goes on, being used a total of zero times in 'wasteland, baby!', and then coming back to make up more than half of all terms in 'unreal unearth'.
and here's how it looks over time:
Religion
Unreleased songs
Devil: “I'd piss on heaven's gate if I could/I'm straight on the level/But I'd be the devil/As long as your lovin' was good”
Blood: “Ahh, but you might be right/If there is no heaven and there is no soul”
But The Wages: “Sky-bound as a heavenly choir”
The Love of: “The angels can know their place/Let heaven hidе its face in sheer disgrace”
I Could Be Yours: “Oh God, I'd benefit/From your sweet tenderness/Thank God, it could have been/'cause nothing comes from it”
Rob The Goddess: “No mere saint makes shit of winter/Here or any land”
Rob The Goddess: “I swear, the old demotion be damned/I will not rob the goddess/I will not rob the goddess/One more prayer”
Love Supreme: “Wondering how in God's name he felt moved enough to write of a love supreme”
Discreet: “And Lord, they're calling the desperate men”
Discreet: “Ah, when will you know, Lord, to be discreet/To your place where you bled out the radio/Ah, when will you know, Lord, to be discreet/Mock the man as he sang you falsetto/Ah, when will you know, Lord, to be discreet/Our love being made from a window/Ah, when will you know, Lord, to be discreet”
Greater Worth: “Good God, it’s still so new to me/You turned the heavy rock that night”
Hozier (Special Edition)
Take Me to Church: “I should've worshipped her sooner”
Take Me to Church: “If the heavens ever did speak/She's the last true mouthpiece”
Take Me to Church: “My church offers no absolutes/She tells me, "Worship in the bedroom"
Take Me to Church: “The only heaven I'll be sent to/Is when I'm alone with you”
Take Me to Church: “A, amen/Amen, amen”
Take Me to Church: “Take me to church/I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies”
Take Me to Church: “I'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife”
Take Me to Church: “Oh, good God, let me give you my life”
Take Me to Church: “If I'm a pagan of the good times/My lover's the sunlight/To keep the goddess on my side/She demands a sacrifice”
Take Me to Church: “What you got in the stable?/We've a lot of starvin' faithful”
Take Me to Church: “No masters or kings when the ritual begins/There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin”
Angel of Small Death and the Codeine Scene: “With her sweetened breath, and her tongue so mean/She's the angel of small death and the codeine scene"
Jackie and Wilson: “Me and my Isis growing black irises in the sunshine”
Jackie and Wilson: “We tried the world; good God, it wasn't for us”
Someone New: “'Cause God knows I fall/In love just a little ol' little bit/Every day with someone new”
To Be Alone: “It's the God that heroin prays to”
From Edеn: “I slithered here from Eden just to sit outside your door”
From Eden” But I might be hoping about this/Oh, what a sin”
From Eden: “I slithered here from Eden just to hide outside your door”
Sеdated: “Lord, we should quit, but we love it too much”
Work Song: "I was three days on a drunken sin"
Work Song: “If the Lord don't forgive me/I'd still have my baby and my babe would have me”
Work Song: “Heaven and hell were words to me”
It Will Come Back: “Don't give it a hand, offer it a soul"
It Will Come Back: “Jesus Christ, don't be kind to it”
It Will Come Back: “Jesus Christ, don't be kind to me”
It Will Come Back: “Oh, please, give me mercy no more”
Foreigner's God: “When the land was godless and free”
Foreigner’s God: “With the hate of some other man's beliefs”
Foreigner’s God: “Screamin' the name of a foreigner's God”
Cherry Wine (Live): “And it's worth it, it's divine/I have this some of the time”
In the Woods Somewhere: "Forgot all prayers of joining you"
Run: “Her hungry eye, her ancient soul"
Run: "A shame without a sin"
Run: "With as many souls claimed as she"
Arsonist's Lullabye: “Don't you ever tame your demons/But always keep them on a leash"
Wasteland, Baby!
Nina Cried Power: “And I could cry power/Power, Lord"
Almost (Sweet Music): “And, Lord/I wouldn't know where to start"
Movement: "Like Jonah on the ocean"
Movement: "You are the rite of movement"
No Plan: “There's no plan, there's no kingdom to come"
Nobody: “I'd be appalled if I saw you ever try to be a saint"
Talk: “That's found in the last witness/Before the wave hits, marvelling at God"
Be: “When St. Peter loses cool and bars the gates"
Be: "With the same sweet shock of when Adam first came"
Be: "Be like the love that discovered the sin/That freed the first man and will do so again"
Be: "Be that hopeful feeling when Eden was lost"
Be: "Oh, when there’s nobody upstairs to receive us"
Dinner & Diatribes: “Hell is the talkin' type/I’d suffer hell if you'd tell me"
Sunlight: “Betray the moon as acolyte"
Sunlight: "A soul that’s born in cold and rain"
Moment’s Silence (Common Tongue): “A cure I know that soothes the soul does so impossibly"
Moment’s Silence (Common Tongue): “All reason flown as God looks on in abject apathy"
Moment’s Silence (Common Tongue): “A squall and all of me is a prayer in perfect piety"
Moment’s Silence (Common Tongue): “Like a heathen clung to the homily"
Moment’s Silence (Common Tongue): “So summon on the pearl rosary"
Be (Acoustic): “Be like the love that discovered the sin/That freed the first man and will do so again
Be (Acoustic): "Be that hopeful feeling when Eden was lost
NFWMB: “To Bethlehem, it slouched/And then, must've caught a good look at you"
NFWMB: “Give your heart and soul to charity"
Unreal Unearth: Unending
Nobody’s Soldier: “Running with bulls/Working my miracles"
July: "And you can go to work, until your disaster, babe/Build your temple to sound and stone"
July: "Put in all of that time, only to find/By the end that your god has flown"
That You Are: “It's the sound of it that brings me there/This city locked into the song of prayer"
That You Are: "The twitching muscles in each step I take/The prayer is all of me"
That You Are: "The prayer/Is all of me, all of me"
Swan Upon Leda: “Would never belong to angels/Had never belonged to man"Swan Upon Leda:"The swan upon Leda/Empire upon Jerusalem"
Swan Upon Leda: "Past where the god-child soldier, Sétanta, stood dead"
Swan Upon Leda: "The pillar of myth still stands"
Hymn to Virgil: “You tell me the sun is shining in paradise/And I have to watch your lips turn blue"
Hymn to Virgil: "And I can only do my best, I do not do this for myself/I'd walk through hell on living feet for you"
Too Sweet: “You treat your mouth as if it's Heaven's gate/The rest of you like you're the TSA"
Wildflower and Barley: “Would all things God allows remain above ground"
Empire Now: “The martyrs of our revolution/Their spinning caused the earth to shake"
De Selby (Part 1): “The likes of a darkness so deep/That God, at the start, couldn't bear"
De Selby (Part 1): “No closer could I be to God/Or why he would do what he's done"
First Time: “That went so far to soothe this soul/As it was and ever shall be, unearth without a name"
First Time: “Infinitely suffering, but fighting off like all creation/The absence of itself, anyway"
Damage Gets Done: "That first car was like wings on an angel/Before the whole wide world got too thin"
Who We Are: “To hold me like water/Or Christ, hold me like a knife"
To Someone From A Warm Climate (Uiscefhuaraithe): “There are some things that no-one teaches you, love/That God in his awful wisdom first programs in"
To Someone From A Warm Climate (Uiscefhuaraithe): “I wish I could say the cold lake water of my heart/Christ, it's boilin' over"
Unknown / Nth: “So I thought you were like an angel to me"
Unknown / Nth: “Where you were held frozen like an angel to me"
Unknown / Nth: “You called me "angel" for the first time, my heart leapt from me"
Unknown / Nth: “Going unknown as any angel to me"
Non Album Songs
Better Love: “Blind to the purpose of the brute divine/But you were mine"
Also, anything with "pray", "prayer", "worship" etc, please 🧡
here you go!
Pray, Prayer, Worship
Unreleased songs
Rob The Goddess: “I will not rob the goddess/One more prayer”
Hozier (Special Edition)
Take Me to Church: “I should've worshipped her sooner”
Take Me to Church: “She tells me, "Worship in the bedroom"”
Take Me to Church: “I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies”
In the Woods Somewhere: "Forgot all prayers of joining you"
Wasteland, Baby!
Moment’s Silence (Common Tongue): “A squall and all of me is a prayer in perfect piety"
Unreal Unearth: Unending
That You Are: “It's the sound of it that brings me there/This city locked into the song of prayer"
That You Are: "The twitching muscles in each step I take/The prayer is all of me"
That You Are: "The prayer/Is all of me, all of me"
Non Album Songs
(no mention)
Hi! Could you do "Jesus", "Christ" and "God"?
Thank you 🧡
And this is FINALLY done
Unreleased songs
I Could Be Yours: “Oh God, I'd benefit/From your sweet tenderness/Thank God, it could have been/'cause nothing comes from it”
Love Supreme: “Wondering how in God's name he felt moved enough to write of a love supreme”
Discreet: “And Lord, they're calling the desperate men”
Discreet: “Lord, how many ears have heard the lie?”
Discreet: “Ah, when will you know, Lord, to be discreet/To your place where you bled out the radio/Ah, when will you know, Lord, to be discreet/Mock the man as he sang you falsetto/Ah, when will you know, Lord, to be discreet/Our love being made from a window/Ah, when will you know, Lord, to be discreet”
Greater Worth: “Good God, it’s still so new to me/You turned the heavy rock that night”
Hozier (Special Edition)
Take Me to Church: “Oh, good God, let me give you my life”
Jackie and Wilson: “We tried the world; good God, it wasn't for us”
Someone New: “'Cause God knows I fall/In love just a little ol' little bit/Every day with someone new”
To Be Alone: “It's the God that heroin prays to”
Sеdated: “Lord, we should quit, but we love it too much”
Work Song: “If the Lord don't forgive me/I'd still have my baby and my babe would have me”
It Will Come Back: “Jesus Christ, don't be kind to it”
It Will Come Back: “Jesus Christ, don't be kind to me”
Foreigner's God: “When the land was godless and free”
Foreigner’s God: “Screamin' the name of a foreigner's God”
Wasteland, Baby!
Nina Cried Power: “And I could cry power/Power, Lord"
Almost (Sweet Music): “And, Lord/I wouldn't know where to start"
Talk: “That's found in the last witness/Before the wave hits, marvelling at God"
Moment’s Silence (Common Tongue): “All reason flown as God looks on in abject apathy"
Unreal Unearth: Unending
July: "Put in all of that time, only to find/By the end that your god has flown"
Wildflower and Barley: “Would all things God allows remain above ground"
De Selby (Part 1): “The likes of a darkness so deep/That God, at the start, couldn't bear"
De Selby (Part 1): “No closer could I be to God/Or why he would do what he's done"
Who We Are: “To hold me like water/Or Christ, hold me like a knife"
To Someone From A Warm Climate (Uiscefhuaraithe): “There are some things that no-one teaches you, love/That God in his awful wisdom first programs in"
To Someone From A Warm Climate (Uiscefhuaraithe): “I wish I could say the cold lake water of my heart/Christ, it's boilin' over"
Non Album Songs
(no mention)
And another one: could you do "hands"?
🧡🧡🧡
this took forEVER to get round to but here you go lovely! the other two are underway but a LOT more
Unreleased songs
The Love of: “I’ll build again the world by my baby’s hands”
Rob The Goddess: “Like a baby in her hands”
Hozier (Special Edition)
Jackie and Wilson: “She's gonna save me, call me baby/Run her hands through my hair”
Work Song: “My babe would never fret none/About what my hands and my body done”
Like Real People Do: “Why were you digging? What did you bury/Before those hands pulled me from the earth?”
In The Woods Somewhere: “A woman's voice, I quickly ran/Into the trees with empty hands”
Run: “White hands to fondle and beat her/Give her his onliness”
Wasteland, Baby!
Nobody: “I once warmed my hands over a burnin' Maserati, woo”
Wasteland, Baby!: “Like the holding of hands, like the breaking of glass”
Unreal Unearth: Unending
Hymn to Virgil: “If I held in my hands everything gold could buy/I'd still not have a thing worth giving you”
De Selby (Part 2): “I'd still know you, not being shown you/I only need the workin' of my hands”
First Time: “The perfect genius of our hands and mouths were shocked/To resignation as the arguing declined”
I Carrion (Icarian): “While you're as heavy as the world/That you hold your hands beneath”
Damage Gets Done: “You and I had nothin' to show/But the best of the world in the palm of our hands”
Damage Gets Done: “You were steerin' my heart like a wheel in your hands”
All Things End: “All that we intend is scrawled in sand/And slips right through our hands”
All Things End: “All that we intend is scrawled in sand/And slips right through our hands”
All Things End: “All that we intend is scrawled in sand/And slips right through our hands”
Hi! Just wanted to ask, out of curiosity, how do you look for these words? Do you just look them up in a file?
Thanks! I appreciate this blog so much, I'm not normal about lyrics 🧡
Hi!! Thank you for all the requests I love doing them!!
I have a big document which has a link to each of the genius pages for every song and then it depends if the request is for a specific word or a theme. if it's an individual word it's easier because I can literally just ctrl + F each page to get the lyrics, if it's a theme it's more interesting but can take aaaaages because I a) don't want to miss any and b) have to decide where to draw the line with what meets the theme I probably should just paste all the lyrics into a doc so I can do it offline but I am lazy and haven't got round to it lol
Oh! it also depends if i'm doing one at a time or multiple at once because if i'm doing multiple i sorta scan the page and paste in anything i immediately notice and then do a deeper dive I am also not normal about lyrics, hence the blog!! I am so glad you like it!
Can you do plants and animals? Thanks!
here you go!
Unreleased songs
Blood: “A creature that would horrify/Any child that I used to be”
Discreet: “Cryin' out "war is peace, let the dogs off the leash"”
Hozier (Special Edition)
Take Me to Church: “I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies”
Take Me to Church: “That's a fine lookin' high horse”
Angel of Small Death & the Codeine Scene: “Lurched like a stray to the arms that were open”
Jackie and Wilson: “Soul deep in this swill with the most familiar of swine”
Jackie and Wilson: “Me and my Isis growing black irises in the sunshine”
To Be Alone: “Crude and proud, creatures baying”
From Edеn: “I slithered here from Eden just to sit outside your door”
In a Week: “I have never known peace/Like the damp grass that yields to me”
In a Week: “I have never known hunger/Like these insects that feast on me”
In a Week: “So long, we'd become the flowers/Two corpses we were, two corpses I saw”
In a Week: “After the insects have made their claim”
In a Week: “We'd feed well the land/and worry the sheep”
In a Week: “When the cattle show fear”
In a Week: “After the foxes have known our taste”
In a Week: “When the buzzards get loud”
In a Week: “After the raven has had his say”
Work Song: “I'd never want once from the cherry tree”
Like Real People Do: “About that night, the bugs and the dirt”
It Will Come Back: “You'll hear me howling outside your door”
It Will Come Back: “Don't you hear me howling, babe?”
Foreigner's God: “The perfect creature rarely seen”
In The Woods Somewhere: “A fox, it was, he shook afraid”
In The Woods Somewhere: “What caused the wound? How large, the teeth?/I sure knew eyes were watchin' me”
In The Woods Somewhere: “The creature lunged, I turned and ran”
Wasteland, Baby!
Movement: “Shake like the bough of a willow tree”
Movement: “Move like a bird of paradise”
No Plan: “Why would you make out of words a cage for your own bird?”
No Plan: “Blue bird, I know your beat, baby”
No Plan: “But your secret is safe with me 'cause if secrets were like seeds”
No Plan: “When I'm lying under marble, marvel at flowers you'll have made”
As It Was: “There is a roadway, muddy and foxgloved”
Shrike: “Ah, but I'm singing like a bird 'bout it now”
Shrike: “As the shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn”
Shrike: “Hung like the pelt of some prey you had worn”
Shrike: “Ah, but I'm flying like a bird to you now”
Be: “When Atlas acts the maggot, makes his arms shake”
Be: “When the birds are heard again in their singin'”
Be: “That scorches the hillside and salts every root”
Be: “Or be like the rose that you hold in your hand/That will grow bold in a barren and desolate land”
Would That I: “True that I saw her hair like the branch of a tree/A willow dancing on air before covering me/Under cotton and calicoes/Over canopy dapple long ago”
Would That I: “That the sound of the saw must be known by the tree”
Would That I: “Watching still-living roots be consumed by the flame”
Wasteland, Baby!: “When the stench of the sea and the absence of green”
Be (Acoustic): “Or be like the rose that you'd hold in your hand/That grows bold in a barren and an uneasy land”
NFWMB: “If I was born as a blackthorn tree”
Unreal Unearth: Unending
Nobody’s Soldier: “Running with bulls/Working my miracles”
July: “Took root where he fell and started to grow”
July: “Blooming beyond us like the promise of July, July”
Swan Upon Leda: “Without leaving so much as a feather behind”
Swan Upon Leda: “The swan upon Leda”
Too Sweet: “It can't be said I'm an early bird”
Too Sweet: “Pretty as a vine, as sweet as a grape”
Wildflower and Barley: “The world lyin' fallow/and you are apart from me”
Wildflower and Barley: “Riverboat,/wheelbarrow, wildflower and barley”
Wildflower and Barley: “Low and harrowed lie the fields and the heart of me”
Wildflower and Barley: “The grass cryin' out to be heated by bodies”
Wildflower and Barley: “Canal boat and trolley, wildflower and barley”
Wildflower and Barley: “Like grief and sweet memory, wildflower and barley”
Fare Well: “Hedgehog-under-a-van-wheel kind of wouldn't fare well”
Fare Well: “A kitten-cosy-in-the-engine type of wouldn't fare well”
Fare Well: “A dog-deep-into-the-chocolate kind of wouldn't fare well”
Fare Well: “A whale-swimmin'-up-Sumida-Gawa wouldn't fare well”
First Time: “These days, I think I owe my life/To flowers that were left here by my mother/Ain't that like them, giftin' life to you again”
First Time: “This life lived mostly underground/Unknowin' either sight nor sound/Till reachin' up for sunlight just to be ripped out by the stem”
First Time: “Bloomin' forth its every colour/In the moments it has left/To share the space with simple living things”
I Carrion (Icarian): “You have me floatin' like a feather on the sea”
I Carrion (Icarian): “I do not have wings, love, I never will”
Anything But: “Come here to me,/I wish I was a may fly/on the River Tay”
Anything But: “I wanna be the thunder of a hundred thousand hooves moving quick/If I was a stampede, you wouldn't get a kick”
Abstract (Psychopomp): “The poor thing in the road, its eye still glistening”
Abstract (Psychopomp): “The creature still moving, that slowed in your arms/The fear in its eyes, gone out in an instant”
Abstract (Psychopomp): “The weeds up through the concrete/The traffic picking up speed/All my love and terror balanced there between those eyes”
Non Album Songs
Blood Upon The Snow: “The bear that keeps to his own line”
Blood Upon The Snow: “The wolf that seeks always his own kind”
Blood Upon The Snow: “The parent forced to eat its young before it grows”
Blood Upon The Snow: “Every bird, gone unheard/Starving where the ground has froze”
Blood Upon The Snow: “The trees deny themselves nothing that makes them grow”
Better Love: “Like fire weeping from a cedar tree”
How about all the "un-' words from his whole discography? 🙃
(Thank you so much, I love this blog 💖)
This one was kinda surprising, there was less than I expected! Thank you for the request❤️❤️
Unreleased songs
The Love of: “The unamable, the unmade again”
The Love of: “‘Cus here unmarked/Would still be the love, the love, the love”
Hozier (Special Edition)
It Will Come Back: “It can't be unlearned/I've known the warmth of your doorways”
Wasteland, Baby!
Nina Cried Power: “It is the grounding of a foot uncompromising”
As It Was: “But your love was unmoved”
Shrike: “Then when I met you, my virtues uncounted”
Wasteland, Baby!: “Happily, I'm unfazed here too”
Wasteland, Baby!: “Be still, my indelible friend, you are unbreaking”
Wasteland, Baby!: “And you'll gaze unafraid as they sob from the city roofs”
Wasteland, Baby!: “Are the death of all things that are seen and unseen”
Unreal Unearth: Unending
Swan Upon Leda: “Where nature unmakes the boundary/The pillar of myth still stands”
Wildflower and Barley: “I feel as useful as dirt, unreal unearth”
Through Me (The Flood): “The unheard footsteps at the doorway/The unemployment of the mouth”
First Time: “And the soul, if that's what you'd call it/Uneasy ally of the body, it felt nameless as a river/Undiscovered underground”
First Time: “As it was and ever shall be,/unearth without a name”
First Time: “This life lived mostly underground/Unknowin' either sight nor sound”
Who We Are: “Darling, we sacrificed/We gave our time to something undefined”
Butchered Tongue: “And have my foreign ear made fresh again on each unlikely sound”
Unknown / Nth: “Sha-la-la, baby, you know, it's more the being unknown/So much of the livin', love, is the being unknown”
Unknown / Nth: “Going unknown as any angel to me”
Unknown / Nth: “And there are some people, love, who are better unknown”
Non Album Songs
Blood Upon The Snow: “Every bird, gone unheard”
Better Love: “The thrill of knowing how alone we are/Unknown we are”
Un- words for @1-lamentis (who I cannot tag for some reason so I hope you see this!) Either I accidentally answered it privately or tumblr swallowed it. Thank you for the request, there were fewer than I expected for this one!
Unreleased songs
The Love of: “The unamable, the unmade again”
The Love of: “‘Cus here unmarked/Would still be the love, the love, the love”
Hozier (Special Edition)
It Will Come Back: “It can't be unlearned/I've known the warmth of your doorways”
Wasteland, Baby!
Nina Cried Power: “It is the grounding of a foot uncompromising”
As It Was: “But your love was unmoved”
Shrike: “Then when I met you, my virtues uncounted”
Wasteland, Baby!: “Happily, I'm unfazed here too”
Wasteland, Baby!: “Be still, my indelible friend, you are unbreaking”
Wasteland, Baby!: “And you'll gaze unafraid as they sob from the city roofs”
Wasteland, Baby!: “Are the death of all things that are seen and unseen”
Unreal Unearth: Unending
Swan Upon Leda: “Where nature unmakes the boundary/The pillar of myth still stands”
Wildflower and Barley: “I feel as useful as dirt, unreal unearth”
Through Me (The Flood): “The unheard footsteps at the doorway/The unemployment of the mouth”
First Time: “And the soul, if that's what you'd call it/Uneasy ally of the body, it felt nameless as a river/Undiscovered underground”
First Time: “As it was and ever shall be,/unearth without a name”
First Time: “This life lived mostly underground/Unknowin' either sight nor sound”
Who We Are: “Darling, we sacrificed/We gave our time to something undefined”
Butchered Tongue: “And have my foreign ear made fresh again on each unlikely sound”
Unknown / Nth: “Sha-la-la, baby, you know, it's more the being unknown/So much of the livin', love, is the being unknown”
Unknown / Nth: “Going unknown as any angel to me”
Unknown / Nth: “And there are some people, love, who are better unknown”
Non Album Songs
Blood Upon The Snow: “Every bird, gone unheard”
Better Love: “The thrill of knowing how alone we are/Unknown we are”
noise/sound words
Here you go! Unsurprisingly there were a lot, especially in a few songs in particular - I also included language words kind of? (Sidenote i could’ve sworn the lyric in nina cried power was the heaven of the human spirit ringing)
Unreleased songs
Blood: “Oh, I love the very blood of you/Leaks and squeaks you black and blue”
But The Wages: “Sky-bound as a heavenly choir”
But The Wages: “The screams of the dying”
The Love of: “To hear that the world’s to end in flames”
The Love of: “Speak of the love of my baby”
I Could Be Yours: “Why don't you hear me sing out from the lost and found”
Love Supreme: “I heard stories of a love supreme”
Love Supreme: “Dreams are falling always end in a waking scream”
Love Supreme: “ Those days listening to John Coltrane”
Discreet: “Who'll be the stick when the drum gets beat?”
Discreet: “That noise and shape of you in the street”
Discreet: “Lord, how many ears have heard the lie?”
Discreet: “Who spoke out or who wrote a song”
Discreet: “To your place where you bled out the radio”
Discreet: “Mock the man as he sang you falsetto”
Hozier (Special Edition)
Take Me to Church: “She's the giggle at a funeral”
Take Me to Church: “If the heavens ever did speak/She's the last true mouthpiece”
Take Me to Church: “She tells me, "Worship in the bedroom"”
Angel of Small Death & the Codeine Scene: “Calling to join them the wretched and joyful”
Jackie and Wilson: “Laughing her way through my feeble disguise”
Jackie and Wilson: “She's gonna save me, call me baby”
Jackie and Wilson: “We'll name our children Jackie and Wilson/Raise 'em on rhythm and blues”
To Be Alone: “With folks around when they're playing/The anthems of rape culture loud”
To Be Alone: “Crude and proud, creatures baying”
To Be Alone: “There are questions I can't ask”
From Edеn: “No tired sigh, no rolling eyes”
From Eden: “Innocence died screaming, honey, ask me, I should know”
In a Week (feat. Karen Cowely): “When the buzzards get loud”
Sеdated: “Some whiff of this, death and guts, we are deaf, we are numb”
Like Real People Do: “I will not ask you where you came from/I will not ask and neither should you”
Like Real People Do: “So I will not ask you why you were creeping”
It Will Come Back: “You know better, babe, you know better, babe/Than to talk to it, talk to it like that”
It Will Come Back: “You'll hear me howling outside your door”
It Will Come Back: “Don't you hear me howling, babe?”
Foreigner's God: “Since some liar brought the thunder”
Foreigner’s God: “Screamin' the name of a foreigner's God”
Foreigner’s God: “I've no language left to say it”
Cherry Wine (Live): “The way she tells me I'm hers and she is mine”
Cherry Wine (Live): “Calls of guilty thrown at me, all while she stains/The sheets of some other”
In The Woods Somewhere: “I called your name till the fever broke”
In The Woods Somewhere: “The night, so black that the darkness hums”
In The Woods Somewhere: “An awful noise filled the air”
In The Woods Somewhere: “I heard a scream in the woods somewhere”
In The Woods Somewhere: “A woman's voice, I quickly ran”
In The Woods Somewhere: “I spoke no words, no sound he made”
Arsonist's Lullabye: “When I was a child, I heard voices/Some would sing and some would scream”
Arsonist's Lullabye: “I learned the voices died with me”
Wasteland, Baby!
Nina Cried Power: “It's not the song, it is the singing/It's the hearing of a human spirit ringing”
Nina Cried Power: “It is the bearing of the rhyme”
Nina Cried Power: “And I could cry power (Power), power (Power)”
Nina Cried Power: “Nina cried power/Billie cried power/Mavis cried power”
Nina Cried Power: “Curtis cried power/Patti cried power/Nina cried power”
Nina Cried Power: “Nina cried power/Lennon cried power/James Brown cried power”
Nina Cried Power: “Billie cried power/Joni cried power/Nina cried power”
Nina Cried Power: “And I could cry power/Power has been cried by those stronger than me”
Nina Cried Power: “Straight into the face that tells you to/Rattle your chains if you love being free”
Nina Cried Power: “James Brown cried power/Seeger cried power/Marvin cried power”
Nina Cried Power: “James cried power/Lennon cried power/Patti cried power”
Almost (Sweet Music): “Played from the bedside is "Stella by Starlight"”
Almost (Sweet Music): “That was my heart, the drums that start off "Night and Day"”
Almost (Sweet Music): “The same kind of music haunts her bedroom”
Almost (Sweet Music): “Sweet music playing in the dark”
Almost (Sweet Music): “As soft as Chet can sing "Let's Get Lost"?”
Almost (Sweet Music): “Oh, the radio news reader chimes/Reporting Russian lullabies”
Almost (Sweet Music): “She'll turn to me awake and ask, "Is everything alright?"”
Movement: “There, all of you, a verb in perfect view”
No Plan: “What a waste to say the heart could feel apart”
No Plan: “When it sings so sweet/The screaming, heaving fuckery of the world?”
No Plan: “Let it hurl, let the awful song be heard”
Nobody: “If I had the choice between hearing either noise”
Nobody: “The excitement of a thousand, or the soothing of your voice”
To Noise Making (Sing): “Remember when you'd sing just for the fuck of it?”
To Noise Making (Sing): “I couldn't hope to know that song or know its words”
To Noise Making (Sing): “Was as sweet as the sound”
To Noise Making (Sing): “Wouldn't claim to feel the same we felt the first time it was heard”
To Noise Making (Sing): “I couldn't name that feeling carried in that voice”
To Noise Making (Sing): “Was it that or just the act of makin' noise that brought you joy?”
To Noise Making (Sing): “You don't have to sing it right/But who could call you wrong?”
To Noise Making (Sing): “To put your emptiness to melody/Your awful heart to song”
To Noise Making (Sing): “You don't have to sing it nice but, honey, sing it strong”
To Noise Making (Sing): “At best, you'll find a little remedy/At worst, the world will sing along”
To Noise Making (Sing): “So honey, sing, sing/Sing, sing, sing, sing, sing/Sing, sing/Sing, sing, sing, sing, sing”
To Noise Making (Sing): “Remember when you'd sing before we'd move to it?”
To Noise Making (Sing): “"I Wanna Be Your Lover" or "The Fisherman's Blues"”
To Noise Making (Sing): “And who could ask you to be sound or to feel saved again?/But stick around until you hear that music play again”
To Noise Making (Sing): “Remember when you'd sing just for the love of it?”
As It Was: “Whenever I'd have life enough, my heart is screamin' of”
Shrike: “I couldn't utter my love when it counted”
Shrike: “Ah, but I'm singing like a bird 'bout it now”
Shrike: “And I couldn't whisper when you needed it shouted”
Shrike: “Words hung above but never would form”
Shrike: “Like a cry at the final breath that is drawn”
Talk: “I'd be the voice that urged Orpheus”
Talk: “So I try to talk refined for fear that you find out”
Be: “When the birds are heard again in their singin'/Once atrocity is hoarse from voicin’ shame”
Be: “It's been deaf to our laughter since the master was crossed”
Be: “When I have no kind words left, love, for you”
Dinner & Diatribes: “Hell is the talkin' type”
Dinner & Diatribes: “I’d suffer hell if you'd tell me/What you'd do to me tonight”
Dinner & Diatribes: “Tell me, tell me, tell me, ah”
Dinner & Diatribes: “Honey, I laugh when it sinks in/A pillar I am, upright”
Dinner & Diatribes: “Scarcely can speak for my thinkin'/What you'd do to me tonight”
Dinner & Diatribes: “Tell me, tell me, tell your man, ah”
Would That I: “True that love in withdrawal was the weepin' of me”
Would That I: “That the sound of the saw must be known by the tree”
Would That I: “With the roar of the fire, my heart rose to its feet”
Sunlight: “I would shun the light, share in evening's cool and quiet”
Sunlight: “Who would trade that hum of night/For sunlight, sunlight, sunlight?”
Sunlight: “All the tales the same/Told before and told again”
Wasteland, Baby!: “Like the bonfire that burns that all words in the fight fell to”
Wasteland, Baby!: “Be still, my indelible friend, you are unbreaking”
Wasteland, Baby!: “And you'll gaze unafraid as they sob from the city roofs”
Moment’s Silence (Common Tongue): “Alarms are struck and shore is shook by sheer atrocity”
Moment’s Silence (Common Tongue): “A moment's silence when my baby puts the mouth on”
Moment’s Silence (Common Tongue): “A squall and all of me is a prayer in perfect piety”
Moment’s Silence (Common Tongue): “This moment's silence when my baby puts the mouth on me”
Why Would You Be Loved: “You're never told but you're loaned it”
Why Would You Be Loved: “I wouldn't say it, but I blame them”
Be (Acoustic): “It's been deaf to our laughter since the master was crossed”
NFWMB: “Ain't it a gentle sound, the rolling in the graves?”
NFWMB: “Ain't it like thunder under earth, the sound it makes?”
NFWMB: “Ain't it exciting you, the rumble where you lay?”
Unreal Unearth: Unending
July: “Build your temple to sound and stone”
That You Are: “It's the sound of it that brings me there/This city locked into the song of prayer/That finds no melody”
That You Are: “See the places that I hear about/Planes and trains and cars”
Swan Upon Leda: “A crying child pushes a child into the night”
Too Sweet: “It can't be said I'm an early bird/It's 10 o'clock before I say a word”
Wildflower and Barley: “This year, I swear it will be buried in words”
Wildflower and Barley: “The grass cryin' out to be heated by bodies”
Wildflower and Barley: “The streets for the laughter of young women and men”
Through Me (The Flood): “But try measure loss/Measure the silence of a house”
Through Me (The Flood): “The unheard footsteps at the doorway/The unemployment of the mouth”
First Time: “Remember once I told you about/How before I heard it from your mouth/My name would always hit my ears as such an awful sound?”
First Time: “But you spoke some quick new music/That went so far to soothe this soul”
First Time: “This life lived mostly underground/Unknowin' either sight nor sound”
First Time: “The last time it was heard out loud/The perfect genius of our hands and mouths were shocked/To resignation as the arguing declined”
Francesca: “I'd tell them, "Put me back in it””
I Carrion (Icarian): “When I am lifted by every word you say to me?”
Eat Your Young: “Skinnin' the children for a war drum”
Damage Gets Done: “I heard once, it's the comforts that make us feel numb”
Who We Are: “Quietly, it slips through your fingers, love”
All Things End: “I havе never known a silence like the one fallen here”
To Someone From A Warm Climate (Uiscefhuaraithe): “The awful things we do to make the head go quiet”
Butchered Tongue: “As a child, it was the place names/Singin' at me as the first thing”
Butchered Tongue: “How the mouth must be employed/in every corner of itself”
Butchered Tongue: “To say, "Appalacicola"/or, "Hushpuckena,"/like, "Gweebarra"”
Butchered Tongue: “A promise softly sung of somewhere else”
Butchered Tongue: “And have my foreign ear made fresh again on each unlikely sound”
Butchered Tongue: “But feel at home, hearin' a music that few still understand/A butchered tongue still singin' here above the ground”
Butchered Tongue: “So far from home to have a stranger call you "darling"”
Butchered Tongue: “With no translator left to sound/A butchered tongue still singin' here above the ground”
Anything But: “Look, I wanna bе loud, so loud, I'm talking seismic/I wanna be soft as a single stone in a rainstick/I wanna be the thunder of a hundred thousand hooves moving quick”
Abstract (Psychopomp): “The speed that you moved, the screech of the cars”
Unknown / Nth: “You called me "angel" for the first time, my heart leapt from me”
Unknown / Nth: “And what's left of it, I listen to it tick/Every tedious beat”
First Light: “Soft and easy as your breathin', you wake”
First Light: “A voice your body jumps to callin' out your name”
Non Album Songs
Tell It To My Heart (MEDUZA): “'Cause the sound of silence is a place we're dyin'”
Blood Upon The Snow: “To all things housed in her silence”
Blood Upon The Snow: “Every bird, gone unheard”
Better Love: “Chided by the silence of the hushed sublime”
reblogging to add more song tags bc tumblr limits to 30
final tags reblog (for navigation)
noise/sound words
Here you go! Unsurprisingly there were a lot, especially in a few songs in particular - I also included language words kind of? (Sidenote i could’ve sworn the lyric in nina cried power was the heaven of the human spirit ringing)
Unreleased songs
Blood: “Oh, I love the very blood of you/Leaks and squeaks you black and blue”
But The Wages: “Sky-bound as a heavenly choir”
But The Wages: “The screams of the dying”
The Love of: “To hear that the world’s to end in flames”
The Love of: “Speak of the love of my baby”
I Could Be Yours: “Why don't you hear me sing out from the lost and found”
Love Supreme: “I heard stories of a love supreme”
Love Supreme: “Dreams are falling always end in a waking scream”
Love Supreme: “ Those days listening to John Coltrane”
Discreet: “Who'll be the stick when the drum gets beat?”
Discreet: “That noise and shape of you in the street”
Discreet: “Lord, how many ears have heard the lie?”
Discreet: “Who spoke out or who wrote a song”
Discreet: “To your place where you bled out the radio”
Discreet: “Mock the man as he sang you falsetto”
Hozier (Special Edition)
Take Me to Church: “She's the giggle at a funeral”
Take Me to Church: “If the heavens ever did speak/She's the last true mouthpiece”
Take Me to Church: “She tells me, "Worship in the bedroom"”
Angel of Small Death & the Codeine Scene: “Calling to join them the wretched and joyful”
Jackie and Wilson: “Laughing her way through my feeble disguise”
Jackie and Wilson: “She's gonna save me, call me baby”
Jackie and Wilson: “We'll name our children Jackie and Wilson/Raise 'em on rhythm and blues”
To Be Alone: “With folks around when they're playing/The anthems of rape culture loud”
To Be Alone: “Crude and proud, creatures baying”
To Be Alone: “There are questions I can't ask”
From Edеn: “No tired sigh, no rolling eyes”
From Eden: “Innocence died screaming, honey, ask me, I should know”
In a Week (feat. Karen Cowely): “When the buzzards get loud”
Sеdated: “Some whiff of this, death and guts, we are deaf, we are numb”
Like Real People Do: “I will not ask you where you came from/I will not ask and neither should you”
Like Real People Do: “So I will not ask you why you were creeping”
It Will Come Back: “You know better, babe, you know better, babe/Than to talk to it, talk to it like that”
It Will Come Back: “You'll hear me howling outside your door”
It Will Come Back: “Don't you hear me howling, babe?”
Foreigner's God: “Since some liar brought the thunder”
Foreigner’s God: “Screamin' the name of a foreigner's God”
Foreigner’s God: “I've no language left to say it”
Cherry Wine (Live): “The way she tells me I'm hers and she is mine”
Cherry Wine (Live): “Calls of guilty thrown at me, all while she stains/The sheets of some other”
In The Woods Somewhere: “I called your name till the fever broke”
In The Woods Somewhere: “The night, so black that the darkness hums”
In The Woods Somewhere: “An awful noise filled the air”
In The Woods Somewhere: “I heard a scream in the woods somewhere”
In The Woods Somewhere: “A woman's voice, I quickly ran”
In The Woods Somewhere: “I spoke no words, no sound he made”
Arsonist's Lullabye: “When I was a child, I heard voices/Some would sing and some would scream”
Arsonist's Lullabye: “I learned the voices died with me”
Wasteland, Baby!
Nina Cried Power: “It's not the song, it is the singing/It's the hearing of a human spirit ringing”
Nina Cried Power: “It is the bearing of the rhyme”
Nina Cried Power: “And I could cry power (Power), power (Power)”
Nina Cried Power: “Nina cried power/Billie cried power/Mavis cried power”
Nina Cried Power: “Curtis cried power/Patti cried power/Nina cried power”
Nina Cried Power: “Nina cried power/Lennon cried power/James Brown cried power”
Nina Cried Power: “Billie cried power/Joni cried power/Nina cried power”
Nina Cried Power: “And I could cry power/Power has been cried by those stronger than me”
Nina Cried Power: “Straight into the face that tells you to/Rattle your chains if you love being free”
Nina Cried Power: “James Brown cried power/Seeger cried power/Marvin cried power”
Nina Cried Power: “James cried power/Lennon cried power/Patti cried power”
Almost (Sweet Music): “Played from the bedside is "Stella by Starlight"”
Almost (Sweet Music): “That was my heart, the drums that start off "Night and Day"”
Almost (Sweet Music): “The same kind of music haunts her bedroom”
Almost (Sweet Music): “Sweet music playing in the dark”
Almost (Sweet Music): “As soft as Chet can sing "Let's Get Lost"?”
Almost (Sweet Music): “Oh, the radio news reader chimes/Reporting Russian lullabies”
Almost (Sweet Music): “She'll turn to me awake and ask, "Is everything alright?"”
Movement: “There, all of you, a verb in perfect view”
No Plan: “What a waste to say the heart could feel apart”
No Plan: “When it sings so sweet/The screaming, heaving fuckery of the world?”
No Plan: “Let it hurl, let the awful song be heard”
Nobody: “If I had the choice between hearing either noise”
Nobody: “The excitement of a thousand, or the soothing of your voice”
To Noise Making (Sing): “Remember when you'd sing just for the fuck of it?”
To Noise Making (Sing): “I couldn't hope to know that song or know its words”
To Noise Making (Sing): “Was as sweet as the sound”
To Noise Making (Sing): “Wouldn't claim to feel the same we felt the first time it was heard”
To Noise Making (Sing): “I couldn't name that feeling carried in that voice”
To Noise Making (Sing): “Was it that or just the act of makin' noise that brought you joy?”
To Noise Making (Sing): “You don't have to sing it right/But who could call you wrong?”
To Noise Making (Sing): “To put your emptiness to melody/Your awful heart to song”
To Noise Making (Sing): “You don't have to sing it nice but, honey, sing it strong”
To Noise Making (Sing): “At best, you'll find a little remedy/At worst, the world will sing along”
To Noise Making (Sing): “So honey, sing, sing/Sing, sing, sing, sing, sing/Sing, sing/Sing, sing, sing, sing, sing”
To Noise Making (Sing): “Remember when you'd sing before we'd move to it?”
To Noise Making (Sing): “"I Wanna Be Your Lover" or "The Fisherman's Blues"”
To Noise Making (Sing): “And who could ask you to be sound or to feel saved again?/But stick around until you hear that music play again”
To Noise Making (Sing): “Remember when you'd sing just for the love of it?”
As It Was: “Whenever I'd have life enough, my heart is screamin' of”
Shrike: “I couldn't utter my love when it counted”
Shrike: “Ah, but I'm singing like a bird 'bout it now”
Shrike: “And I couldn't whisper when you needed it shouted”
Shrike: “Words hung above but never would form”
Shrike: “Like a cry at the final breath that is drawn”
Talk: “I'd be the voice that urged Orpheus”
Talk: “So I try to talk refined for fear that you find out”
Be: “When the birds are heard again in their singin'/Once atrocity is hoarse from voicin’ shame”
Be: “It's been deaf to our laughter since the master was crossed”
Be: “When I have no kind words left, love, for you”
Dinner & Diatribes: “Hell is the talkin' type”
Dinner & Diatribes: “I’d suffer hell if you'd tell me/What you'd do to me tonight”
Dinner & Diatribes: “Tell me, tell me, tell me, ah”
Dinner & Diatribes: “Honey, I laugh when it sinks in/A pillar I am, upright”
Dinner & Diatribes: “Scarcely can speak for my thinkin'/What you'd do to me tonight”
Dinner & Diatribes: “Tell me, tell me, tell your man, ah”
Would That I: “True that love in withdrawal was the weepin' of me”
Would That I: “That the sound of the saw must be known by the tree”
Would That I: “With the roar of the fire, my heart rose to its feet”
Sunlight: “I would shun the light, share in evening's cool and quiet”
Sunlight: “Who would trade that hum of night/For sunlight, sunlight, sunlight?”
Sunlight: “All the tales the same/Told before and told again”
Wasteland, Baby!: “Like the bonfire that burns that all words in the fight fell to”
Wasteland, Baby!: “Be still, my indelible friend, you are unbreaking”
Wasteland, Baby!: “And you'll gaze unafraid as they sob from the city roofs”
Moment’s Silence (Common Tongue): “Alarms are struck and shore is shook by sheer atrocity”
Moment’s Silence (Common Tongue): “A moment's silence when my baby puts the mouth on”
Moment’s Silence (Common Tongue): “A squall and all of me is a prayer in perfect piety”
Moment’s Silence (Common Tongue): “This moment's silence when my baby puts the mouth on me”
Why Would You Be Loved: “You're never told but you're loaned it”
Why Would You Be Loved: “I wouldn't say it, but I blame them”
Be (Acoustic): “It's been deaf to our laughter since the master was crossed”
NFWMB: “Ain't it a gentle sound, the rolling in the graves?”
NFWMB: “Ain't it like thunder under earth, the sound it makes?”
NFWMB: “Ain't it exciting you, the rumble where you lay?”
Unreal Unearth: Unending
July: “Build your temple to sound and stone”
That You Are: “It's the sound of it that brings me there/This city locked into the song of prayer/That finds no melody”
That You Are: “See the places that I hear about/Planes and trains and cars”
Swan Upon Leda: “A crying child pushes a child into the night”
Too Sweet: “It can't be said I'm an early bird/It's 10 o'clock before I say a word”
Wildflower and Barley: “This year, I swear it will be buried in words”
Wildflower and Barley: “The grass cryin' out to be heated by bodies”
Wildflower and Barley: “The streets for the laughter of young women and men”
Through Me (The Flood): “But try measure loss/Measure the silence of a house”
Through Me (The Flood): “The unheard footsteps at the doorway/The unemployment of the mouth”
First Time: “Remember once I told you about/How before I heard it from your mouth/My name would always hit my ears as such an awful sound?”
First Time: “But you spoke some quick new music/That went so far to soothe this soul”
First Time: “This life lived mostly underground/Unknowin' either sight nor sound”
First Time: “The last time it was heard out loud/The perfect genius of our hands and mouths were shocked/To resignation as the arguing declined”
Francesca: “I'd tell them, "Put me back in it””
I Carrion (Icarian): “When I am lifted by every word you say to me?”
Eat Your Young: “Skinnin' the children for a war drum”
Damage Gets Done: “I heard once, it's the comforts that make us feel numb”
Who We Are: “Quietly, it slips through your fingers, love”
All Things End: “I havе never known a silence like the one fallen here”
To Someone From A Warm Climate (Uiscefhuaraithe): “The awful things we do to make the head go quiet”
Butchered Tongue: “As a child, it was the place names/Singin' at me as the first thing”
Butchered Tongue: “How the mouth must be employed/in every corner of itself”
Butchered Tongue: “To say, "Appalacicola"/or, "Hushpuckena,"/like, "Gweebarra"”
Butchered Tongue: “A promise softly sung of somewhere else”
Butchered Tongue: “And have my foreign ear made fresh again on each unlikely sound”
Butchered Tongue: “But feel at home, hearin' a music that few still understand/A butchered tongue still singin' here above the ground”
Butchered Tongue: “So far from home to have a stranger call you "darling"”
Butchered Tongue: “With no translator left to sound/A butchered tongue still singin' here above the ground”
Anything But: “Look, I wanna bе loud, so loud, I'm talking seismic/I wanna be soft as a single stone in a rainstick/I wanna be the thunder of a hundred thousand hooves moving quick”
Abstract (Psychopomp): “The speed that you moved, the screech of the cars”
Unknown / Nth: “You called me "angel" for the first time, my heart leapt from me”
Unknown / Nth: “And what's left of it, I listen to it tick/Every tedious beat”
First Light: “Soft and easy as your breathin', you wake”
First Light: “A voice your body jumps to callin' out your name”
Non Album Songs
Tell It To My Heart (MEDUZA): “'Cause the sound of silence is a place we're dyin'”
Blood Upon The Snow: “To all things housed in her silence”
Blood Upon The Snow: “Every bird, gone unheard”
Better Love: “Chided by the silence of the hushed sublime”
reblogging to add more song tags bc tumblr limits to 30
noise/sound words
Here you go! Unsurprisingly there were a lot, especially in a few songs in particular - I also included language words kind of? (Sidenote i could’ve sworn the lyric in nina cried power was the heaven of the human spirit ringing)
Unreleased songs
Blood: “Oh, I love the very blood of you/Leaks and squeaks you black and blue”
But The Wages: “Sky-bound as a heavenly choir”
But The Wages: “The screams of the dying”
The Love of: “To hear that the world’s to end in flames”
The Love of: “Speak of the love of my baby”
I Could Be Yours: “Why don't you hear me sing out from the lost and found”
Love Supreme: “I heard stories of a love supreme”
Love Supreme: “Dreams are falling always end in a waking scream”
Love Supreme: “ Those days listening to John Coltrane”
Discreet: “Who'll be the stick when the drum gets beat?”
Discreet: “That noise and shape of you in the street”
Discreet: “Lord, how many ears have heard the lie?”
Discreet: “Who spoke out or who wrote a song”
Discreet: “To your place where you bled out the radio”
Discreet: “Mock the man as he sang you falsetto”
Hozier (Special Edition)
Take Me to Church: “She's the giggle at a funeral”
Take Me to Church: “If the heavens ever did speak/She's the last true mouthpiece”
Take Me to Church: “She tells me, "Worship in the bedroom"”
Angel of Small Death & the Codeine Scene: “Calling to join them the wretched and joyful”
Jackie and Wilson: “Laughing her way through my feeble disguise”
Jackie and Wilson: “She's gonna save me, call me baby”
Jackie and Wilson: “We'll name our children Jackie and Wilson/Raise 'em on rhythm and blues”
To Be Alone: “With folks around when they're playing/The anthems of rape culture loud”
To Be Alone: “Crude and proud, creatures baying”
To Be Alone: “There are questions I can't ask”
From Edеn: “No tired sigh, no rolling eyes”
From Eden: “Innocence died screaming, honey, ask me, I should know”
In a Week (feat. Karen Cowely): “When the buzzards get loud”
Sеdated: “Some whiff of this, death and guts, we are deaf, we are numb”
Like Real People Do: “I will not ask you where you came from/I will not ask and neither should you”
Like Real People Do: “So I will not ask you why you were creeping”
It Will Come Back: “You know better, babe, you know better, babe/Than to talk to it, talk to it like that”
It Will Come Back: “You'll hear me howling outside your door”
It Will Come Back: “Don't you hear me howling, babe?”
Foreigner's God: “Since some liar brought the thunder”
Foreigner’s God: “Screamin' the name of a foreigner's God”
Foreigner’s God: “I've no language left to say it”
Cherry Wine (Live): “The way she tells me I'm hers and she is mine”
Cherry Wine (Live): “Calls of guilty thrown at me, all while she stains/The sheets of some other”
In The Woods Somewhere: “I called your name till the fever broke”
In The Woods Somewhere: “The night, so black that the darkness hums”
In The Woods Somewhere: “An awful noise filled the air”
In The Woods Somewhere: “I heard a scream in the woods somewhere”
In The Woods Somewhere: “A woman's voice, I quickly ran”
In The Woods Somewhere: “I spoke no words, no sound he made”
Arsonist's Lullabye: “When I was a child, I heard voices/Some would sing and some would scream”
Arsonist's Lullabye: “I learned the voices died with me”
Wasteland, Baby!
Nina Cried Power: “It's not the song, it is the singing/It's the hearing of a human spirit ringing”
Nina Cried Power: “It is the bearing of the rhyme”
Nina Cried Power: “And I could cry power (Power), power (Power)”
Nina Cried Power: “Nina cried power/Billie cried power/Mavis cried power”
Nina Cried Power: “Curtis cried power/Patti cried power/Nina cried power”
Nina Cried Power: “Nina cried power/Lennon cried power/James Brown cried power”
Nina Cried Power: “Billie cried power/Joni cried power/Nina cried power”
Nina Cried Power: “And I could cry power/Power has been cried by those stronger than me”
Nina Cried Power: “Straight into the face that tells you to/Rattle your chains if you love being free”
Nina Cried Power: “James Brown cried power/Seeger cried power/Marvin cried power”
Nina Cried Power: “James cried power/Lennon cried power/Patti cried power”
Almost (Sweet Music): “Played from the bedside is "Stella by Starlight"”
Almost (Sweet Music): “That was my heart, the drums that start off "Night and Day"”
Almost (Sweet Music): “The same kind of music haunts her bedroom”
Almost (Sweet Music): “Sweet music playing in the dark”
Almost (Sweet Music): “As soft as Chet can sing "Let's Get Lost"?”
Almost (Sweet Music): “Oh, the radio news reader chimes/Reporting Russian lullabies”
Almost (Sweet Music): “She'll turn to me awake and ask, "Is everything alright?"”
Movement: “There, all of you, a verb in perfect view”
No Plan: “What a waste to say the heart could feel apart”
No Plan: “When it sings so sweet/The screaming, heaving fuckery of the world?”
No Plan: “Let it hurl, let the awful song be heard”
Nobody: “If I had the choice between hearing either noise”
Nobody: “The excitement of a thousand, or the soothing of your voice”
To Noise Making (Sing): “Remember when you'd sing just for the fuck of it?”
To Noise Making (Sing): “I couldn't hope to know that song or know its words”
To Noise Making (Sing): “Was as sweet as the sound”
To Noise Making (Sing): “Wouldn't claim to feel the same we felt the first time it was heard”
To Noise Making (Sing): “I couldn't name that feeling carried in that voice”
To Noise Making (Sing): “Was it that or just the act of makin' noise that brought you joy?”
To Noise Making (Sing): “You don't have to sing it right/But who could call you wrong?”
To Noise Making (Sing): “To put your emptiness to melody/Your awful heart to song”
To Noise Making (Sing): “You don't have to sing it nice but, honey, sing it strong”
To Noise Making (Sing): “At best, you'll find a little remedy/At worst, the world will sing along”
To Noise Making (Sing): “So honey, sing, sing/Sing, sing, sing, sing, sing/Sing, sing/Sing, sing, sing, sing, sing”
To Noise Making (Sing): “Remember when you'd sing before we'd move to it?”
To Noise Making (Sing): “"I Wanna Be Your Lover" or "The Fisherman's Blues"”
To Noise Making (Sing): “And who could ask you to be sound or to feel saved again?/But stick around until you hear that music play again”
To Noise Making (Sing): “Remember when you'd sing just for the love of it?”
As It Was: “Whenever I'd have life enough, my heart is screamin' of”
Shrike: “I couldn't utter my love when it counted”
Shrike: “Ah, but I'm singing like a bird 'bout it now”
Shrike: “And I couldn't whisper when you needed it shouted”
Shrike: “Words hung above but never would form”
Shrike: “Like a cry at the final breath that is drawn”
Talk: “I'd be the voice that urged Orpheus”
Talk: “So I try to talk refined for fear that you find out”
Be: “When the birds are heard again in their singin'/Once atrocity is hoarse from voicin’ shame”
Be: “It's been deaf to our laughter since the master was crossed”
Be: “When I have no kind words left, love, for you”
Dinner & Diatribes: “Hell is the talkin' type”
Dinner & Diatribes: “I’d suffer hell if you'd tell me/What you'd do to me tonight”
Dinner & Diatribes: “Tell me, tell me, tell me, ah”
Dinner & Diatribes: “Honey, I laugh when it sinks in/A pillar I am, upright”
Dinner & Diatribes: “Scarcely can speak for my thinkin'/What you'd do to me tonight”
Dinner & Diatribes: “Tell me, tell me, tell your man, ah”
Would That I: “True that love in withdrawal was the weepin' of me”
Would That I: “That the sound of the saw must be known by the tree”
Would That I: “With the roar of the fire, my heart rose to its feet”
Sunlight: “I would shun the light, share in evening's cool and quiet”
Sunlight: “Who would trade that hum of night/For sunlight, sunlight, sunlight?”
Sunlight: “All the tales the same/Told before and told again”
Wasteland, Baby!: “Like the bonfire that burns that all words in the fight fell to”
Wasteland, Baby!: “Be still, my indelible friend, you are unbreaking”
Wasteland, Baby!: “And you'll gaze unafraid as they sob from the city roofs”
Moment’s Silence (Common Tongue): “Alarms are struck and shore is shook by sheer atrocity”
Moment’s Silence (Common Tongue): “A moment's silence when my baby puts the mouth on”
Moment’s Silence (Common Tongue): “A squall and all of me is a prayer in perfect piety”
Moment’s Silence (Common Tongue): “This moment's silence when my baby puts the mouth on me”
Why Would You Be Loved: “You're never told but you're loaned it”
Why Would You Be Loved: “I wouldn't say it, but I blame them”
Be (Acoustic): “It's been deaf to our laughter since the master was crossed”
NFWMB: “Ain't it a gentle sound, the rolling in the graves?”
NFWMB: “Ain't it like thunder under earth, the sound it makes?”
NFWMB: “Ain't it exciting you, the rumble where you lay?”
Unreal Unearth: Unending
July: “Build your temple to sound and stone”
That You Are: “It's the sound of it that brings me there/This city locked into the song of prayer/That finds no melody”
That You Are: “See the places that I hear about/Planes and trains and cars”
Swan Upon Leda: “A crying child pushes a child into the night”
Too Sweet: “It can't be said I'm an early bird/It's 10 o'clock before I say a word”
Wildflower and Barley: “This year, I swear it will be buried in words”
Wildflower and Barley: “The grass cryin' out to be heated by bodies”
Wildflower and Barley: “The streets for the laughter of young women and men”
Through Me (The Flood): “But try measure loss/Measure the silence of a house”
Through Me (The Flood): “The unheard footsteps at the doorway/The unemployment of the mouth”
First Time: “Remember once I told you about/How before I heard it from your mouth/My name would always hit my ears as such an awful sound?”
First Time: “But you spoke some quick new music/That went so far to soothe this soul”
First Time: “This life lived mostly underground/Unknowin' either sight nor sound”
First Time: “The last time it was heard out loud/The perfect genius of our hands and mouths were shocked/To resignation as the arguing declined”
Francesca: “I'd tell them, "Put me back in it””
I Carrion (Icarian): “When I am lifted by every word you say to me?”
Eat Your Young: “Skinnin' the children for a war drum”
Damage Gets Done: “I heard once, it's the comforts that make us feel numb”
Who We Are: “Quietly, it slips through your fingers, love”
All Things End: “I havе never known a silence like the one fallen here”
To Someone From A Warm Climate (Uiscefhuaraithe): “The awful things we do to make the head go quiet”
Butchered Tongue: “As a child, it was the place names/Singin' at me as the first thing”
Butchered Tongue: “How the mouth must be employed/in every corner of itself”
Butchered Tongue: “To say, "Appalacicola"/or, "Hushpuckena,"/like, "Gweebarra"”
Butchered Tongue: “A promise softly sung of somewhere else”
Butchered Tongue: “And have my foreign ear made fresh again on each unlikely sound”
Butchered Tongue: “But feel at home, hearin' a music that few still understand/A butchered tongue still singin' here above the ground”
Butchered Tongue: “So far from home to have a stranger call you "darling"”
Butchered Tongue: “With no translator left to sound/A butchered tongue still singin' here above the ground”
Anything But: “Look, I wanna bе loud, so loud, I'm talking seismic/I wanna be soft as a single stone in a rainstick/I wanna be the thunder of a hundred thousand hooves moving quick”
Abstract (Psychopomp): “The speed that you moved, the screech of the cars”
Unknown / Nth: “You called me "angel" for the first time, my heart leapt from me”
Unknown / Nth: “And what's left of it, I listen to it tick/Every tedious beat”
First Light: “Soft and easy as your breathin', you wake”
First Light: “A voice your body jumps to callin' out your name”
Non Album Songs
Tell It To My Heart (MEDUZA): “'Cause the sound of silence is a place we're dyin'”
Blood Upon The Snow: “To all things housed in her silence”
Blood Upon The Snow: “Every bird, gone unheard”
Better Love: “Chided by the silence of the hushed sublime”
colours mentioned in hozier songs:
blue - 6
black - 4
gold - 3
red - 2
scarlet - 1
silver - 1
grey - 1
green - 1
rust - 1
white - 1
amber - 1
*some songs have more than one colour
**not including songs that use an alternate meaning (ie gold referring to the metal)
it’s also worth noting he has no songs with a colour in the title
Hozier and "Of Me"
Unreleased songs
Blood: “Some pure motive inside of me”
Blood: “Innocence in spite of me”
I Could Be Yours: “Oh, take a dose of me”
Hozier (Special Edition)
Jackie and Wilson: “No better version of me I could pretend to be tonight”
Jackie and Wilson: “No other version of me I would rather be tonight”
Jackie and Wilson: “Every version of me dead and buried in the yard outside”
Jackie and Wilson: “I start digging up the yard for what's left of me in our little vignette”
To Be Alone: “I know that you hate this place/Not a trace of me would argue”
Sеdated: “To derail the mind of me”
Foreigner's God: “Her eyes look sharp and steady/Into the empty parts of me”
Wasteland, Baby!
As It Was: “Whatever here that's left of me is yours, just as it was”
Would That I: “True that love in withdrawal was the weepin' of me”
Moment’s Silence (Common Tongue): “A squall and all of me is a prayer in perfect piety”
Unreal Unearth: Unending
That You Are: “The prayer is all of me”
That You Are: “The prayer/Is all of me, all of me”
Wildflower and Barley: “Low and harrowed lie the fields and the heart of me”
First Time: “Some part of me must have died/The first time that you called me "baby"”
First Time: “And some part of me came alive/The first time that you called me "baby"”
First Time: “Some part of me must have died/Each time that you called me "baby"”
First Time: “But some part of me stayed alive/Each time that you called, each time that you called”
First Time: “Some part of me must have died/The final time that you called me "baby"”
First Time: “But some part of me came alive/The final time you called me "baby"”
Abstract (Psychopomp): “Darling, there's a part of me/I'm afraid will always be”
Unknown / Nth: “If there were scarlet flags, they washed out in the mind of mе”
Non Album Songs
(no “of me”)
Let's do "darkness" too, please 😊
Here you go!
Darkness/Night/Blackness
Unreleased songs
(none)
Hozier (Special Edition)
Take Me to Church: “Every Sunday's gettin' more bleak”
Someone New: “Only blue or black days”
Someone New: “The dark caress of someone else, I guess any thrill will do”
To Be Alone: “Honey, when you kill the lights and kiss my eyes”
Sеdated: “Adding shadows to the walls of the cave”
Work Song: “Lay me gently in the cold, dark earth”
Work Song: “In the low lamplight, I was free”
Like Real People Do: “About that night, the bugs and the dirt”
In The Woods Somewhere: “The night, so black that the darkness hums”
Wasteland, Baby!
Nina Cried Power: “It's not the shade, we should be past it”
Almost (Sweet Music): “That was my heart, the drums that start off "Night and Day"”
Almost (Sweet Music): “Sweet music playing in the dark”
Almost (Sweet Music): “I get along without you very well some other nights”
Movement: “Move like an odd sight come out at night”
No Plan: “As Mack explained, there will be darkness again”
As It Was: “The drug, the dark, the light, the flame”
As It Was: “The drug, the dark, the light, the shame”
As It Was: “And the nights were as dark as my baby”
Shrike: “By your grounded and giving and darkening scorn”
NFWMB: “Ain't it a waste they'd watch the throwing of the shade?”
Unreal Unearth: Unending
July: “Threw up on me when the night was through”
July: “But you arrived like sunlight in the gloom”
Swan Upon Leda: “A crying child pushes a child into the night”
Too Sweet: “Don't you just wanna wake up, dark as a lake”
Too Sweet: “My coffee black/and my bed at 3”
Wildflower and Barley: “The sun hesitates more on each evening's darkenin'”
De Selby (Part 1): “You take in the blackness of air/The likes of a darkness so deep”
De Selby (Part 2): “And your heart, love, has such darkness”
De Selby (Part 2): “(If I was any closer) After the gloom”
De Selby (Part 2): “Want to be when you fall on me like night every time”
De Selby (Part 2): “I wanna kill the lights”
De Selby (Part 2): “Let all time slow, let all light go”
Who We Are: “We're born at night”
Who We Are: “So much of our lives/Is just carving through the dark”
All Things End: Never watched my future darken in a single tear
To Someone From A Warm Climate (Uiscefhuaraithe): “In summer's heat, I learned to dread the comin' of the night”
Anything But: “I wanna be the shadow when my bright future's behind me”
Abstract (Psychopomp): “I remember the view, streetlights in the dark blue”
Abstract (Psychopomp): "The fear in its eyes, gone out in an instant"
Unknown / Nth: “Funny how true colours shine in darkness and in secrecy”
First Light: “Onе bright mornin' goes so easy/Darkness always finds you either way”
Non Album Songs
Tell It To My Heart (MEDUZA): “Before we turn to strangers tryna love in the dark”
Tell It To My Heart (MEDUZA): “Before a light goes out, come and tell me now if something's fadin'”
Blood Upon The Snow: “How dark the night”
Better Love: “Staring into blackness at some distant star”
Better Love: “I have never loved a darker blue”
Better Love: “Then the darkness I have known in you”
Hi again! Could you look for "Light"?
😊
hiiiii thanks for the request - I'm sorry it took so long, my laptop was broken -_-
I wasn’t sure what type of light you wanted, so I went with it in terms of a light source, but let me know if you want me to do it in the sense of weight or lighting a fire! I feel like I should’ve included sun/lamps/shining/bright and stuff, I might go back and edit mentions of those in at some point… (has since been edited to add these)
Let me know if you want me to do darkness too:)
Also SUNLIGHT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE A WORD ANYMORE
Light (in the sense of light source)
Unreleased songs
Greater Worth: “No one’s ever/Honey, been so kind to me/Let me adjust in this light”
Hozier
Take Me to Church: “If I'm a pagan of the good times/My lover's the sunlight”
Jackie and Wilson: “She blows out of nowhere, a roman candle of the wild"
Jackie and Wilson: “Me and my Isis growing black irises in the sunshine”
Someone New: “I wake at the first cringe of morning"
To Be Alone: “Honey, when you kill the lights and kiss my eyes”
Work Song: “In the low lamplight, I was free/Heaven and hell were words to me”
Arsonist's Lullabye: “Staring into open flame, something in it had a power”
Wasteland, Baby!
Nina Cried Power: “It's the light, and it's the obstacle that casts it”
Nina Cried Power: “It's the heat that drives the light”
Almost (Sweet Music): “Played from the bedside is "Stella by Starlight"”
No Plan: “Sit in and watch the sunlight fade/Honey, enjoy, it's gettin' late”
Nobody: “I once warmed my hands over a burnin' Maserati, woo”
As It Was: “And I knew its name/The drug, the dark, the light, the flame”
As It Was: “And the lights were as bright as my baby/But your love was unmoved”
As It Was: “And I knew its name/The drug, the dark, the light, the shame"
Would That I: “Where I'm set alight/And I blink in sight (Oh)/Of your blinding light (Oh)”
Would That I: “Light a fire bright”
Would That I: “Long as amber of ember glows”
Sunlight: “I would shun the light, share in evening's cool and quiet”
Sunlight: “Who would trade that hum of night/For sunlight, sunlight, sunlight?”
Sunlight: “On first and fierce affirming sight/Of sunlight, sunlight, sunlight?”
Sunlight: “I had been lost to you, sunlight/And flew like a moth to you, sunlight, oh, sunlight/Oh, your love is sunlight/Oh, your love is sunlight/Oh, but it is sunlight”
Sunlight: “A soul that’s born in cold and rain/Knows sunlight, sunlight, sunlight”
Sunlight: “As love and its decisive pain/Oh, my sunlight, sunlight, sunlight”
Sunlight: “All that was shown to me, sunlight/Was somethin' foreknown to me, sunlight/Oh, sunlight”
Sunlight: “Hold me, carry me slowly, my sunlight”
Sunlight: “Know that I would gladly be/The Icarus to your certainty/Oh, my sunlight, sunlight, sunlight”
Sunlight: “Death trap clad happily/With wax melted, I’d meet the sea/Under sunlight, sunlight, sunlight”
Sunlight: “Sunlight, sunlight/Sunlight, sunlight/Sunlight”
NFWMB: “Ain't it warming you, the world gone up in flames?”
NFWMB: “Ain't it the life of you, your lighting of the blaze?”
Unreal Unearth: Unending
Nobody’s Soldier: “Benzos and gasoline/Coffee and blue light screens till the morning”
July: “But you arrived like sunlight in the gloom”
Hymn to Virgil: “You tell me the sun is shining in paradise”
Hymn to Virgil: “You stare at the faces smiling from somewhere warm/From somе place the sunlight won't come through”
Too Sweet: “You keep tellin' me to live right/To go to bed before the daylight/But then you wake up for the sunrise”
Too Sweet: “You know you're bright as the morning, as soft as the rain”
Wildflower and Barley: “Springtime in the country/Each time I'm shocked by the light”
Empire Now: “Sun comin' up on a dream come 'round”
Empire Now: “Sun comin' up on a world that's easy now”
Empire Now: “The future's so bright it's burnin'"
Through Me (The Flood): “At the long-term cliff edge of the world/Light and air find some new deepness there”
De Selby (Part 2): “Let all time slow, let all light go”
First Time: “Unknowin' either sight nor sound/Till reachin' up for sunlight just to be ripped out by the stem”
Anything But: “I wish I was the sunlight just sitting on The Mississippi”
Anything But: “I wanna be the shadow when my bright future's behind me”
See how it shines”
Abstract (Psychopomp): “I remember the view, streetlights in the dark blue”
Abstract (Psychopomp): “Your tear caught the light, the earth from a distance”
Unknown / Nth: “If there were scarlet flags, they washed out in the mind of mе/Where a blindin' light shone on you еvery night”
First Light: “One bright mornin' changes all things”
First Light: “Onе bright mornin' goes so easy”
First Light: “The sky set to burst, the gold and the rust”
First Light: “The colour erupts/You fillin' my cup, the sun comin' up”
First Light: “Like I lived my whole life/Before the first light”
Non Album Songs
Tell It To My Heart (MEDUZA): “Before a light goes out, come and tell me now if something's fadin'”
Blood Upon The Snow: “The winter sun rise, red on white”
Blood Upon The Snow: “No rain fall, no sunshine”
