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[thisphantomlife]

In the fetal position, sobbing.

[youwerelikeanangel]

happy 10th birthday to one the most iconic songs of this century so far

[ismellpestilence]

Butchered Tongue is so....

There's something painful about being completely cut off from the culture of your ancestors. You know that there was once a connection there but its gone now and you have no idea how to get it back. You're just stuck wondering when and why things didn't get passed on to your parent or grandparent. Why did they let you assimilate?

Knowing that if your grandparents went to participate in your lost culture, they would be reclaiming it. But somewhere in the generations there is a point where it crosses from reclaiming your culture to being a tourist. And you're pretty sure that you fall directly on the other side of that line.

All you get is an heirloom or two, and a surname no one can pronounce. And that's it's you're lucky.

[worldenough-and-time]

Okay the thing about this song is that the Gaelic word in the song title means “the cool only that only water brings” which is a line in the chorus, and the song is addressed to a lover who grew up in a warm place and Hozier grew up in a cold place and the verses are about his lover learning to sleep in the cold and then Hozier learning to sleep in the summer heat, but the prechorus is about how there are things that you never have to learn and just know innately and Ireland is a cold place but they have this word for the cool only water can bring because that’s just something humans know instinctually even if they’ve never had a reason to learn it and he’s basically saying to his lover that their love “came easily” like something he never had to learn???!? And I’m just supposed to like??? Be a person now??? Go to work???

[ninjinistarsong]

as an indigenous person who's languages have been taken away from them, hozier singing in irish is so important to me

[littlespoonevan]

when hozier said "do you think i'd give up? that this might've shook the love from me" and "if someone asked me at the end i'd tell the put me back in it" and "heaven is not fit to house a love like you and i" and "so someone with your eyes might come and hold me like water or christ, hold me like a knife" and "the memory hurts but does me no harm, your hand in my pocket to keep us both warm" and "i will not be great but i'm grateful to get through, the feeling came late, i'm still glad i met you" and "i remember the view, streetlights in the dark blue, the moment i knew i'd no choice but to love you" and "if there was anyone to ever get through this life with their heart still intact, they didn't do it right" and "i don't need to know where we begin and end, i'd still know you, not being shown you, i only need the workin' of my hands" and-

[actual-sleeping-beauty]

Hozier saying, "being reckless and young is not how the damage gets done," and, "getting through still has its cost," and, "if there was anyone to ever get through this life with their heart still intact they didn't do it right," on the same album is soooooooooo

[confessionsdiaz]

"Hold me like water or, Christ, hold me like a knife.” Okay. What if I threw up. what if i bit my arm off. what if i died

[fawnforevergone]

HOZIER ?!?!?!?!?!? MR I DON'T RELEASE AN ALBUM FOR FOUR YEARS AT A TIME WHAT DO YOU MEAN WE GET MORE ?????? IT'S NOT EVEN BEEN 24HRS SINCE UNREAL UNEARTH WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO US ????

link: interview ( if he proves that all men do is lie , i'll go insane )

[chronicowboy]

[hauntingthehalls]

Me, in my current recurrence of Hozier obsession 💜

[ace-fender-bender]

Blessed trinity together at last

[bloendram-deactivated20230905]

[lesbian-i-ching]

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At last, when all of the world is asleep You take in the blackness of air The likes of a darkness so deep That God at the start couldn’t bear

And sit unseen, with only the inner upheld Your reflection can't offer a word To the bliss of not knowin' yourself With all mirrorin' gone from the world

Still the mind, rejectin' this new empty space Fills it with somethin' or someone No closer could I be to God Or why he would do what he's done

Bhfuilis soranna sorcha Ach tagais 'nós na hoíche Trína chéile; le chéile Bhfuilis soranna sorcha Claochlaithe is claochlú an ealaín Is ealaín dubh í Bhfuilis soranna sorcha Ach tagais 'nós na hoíche Trína chéilе; le chéile Bhfuilis soranna sorcha Claochlaithe is claochlú an еalaín Is ealaín dubh í

[Translation of the gaelic verse

Although your bright and light […] You arrived to me like nightfall, you come like nightfall You and I sort of mixed together You and I metamorphosized So that same idea of you can’t see where one begins and where one ends that, that is some kind of metamorphosis of some kind]

[hidinhaydn]

Butchered Tongue is so fucking incredible. The kinship between cultures whose languages and identities have been pushed down. The magic of seeing a language and culture survive and thrive in defiance of violence. I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you.

[youwerelikeanangel]

oh andrew the man that you are

[youwerelikeanangel]

oh andrew the man that you are