the hozier deep lore timeline
conspiracy theory: all of hozier’s songs off of his first album piece together as a timeline telling the story of his life, and death.Â
listen to the playlist here
From Eden: this song acts to set the stage for the rest of the timeline. it tells the story of adam and eve, from the point of view of the snake, or the devil. the devil is in love with eve, and will do anything for her. the story comes off as timeless, and will repeat, as the devil says eve is “familiar” and the way he says he “slithered here from eden just to hide outside your door” implies the story has begun its cycle again
Someone New: enter hozier. he is a happy go lucky man who sees the good in everything around him, and falls in love with someone new each day. despite his optimism, he feels like he is doing something wrong, he feels guilty. he is seeking answers, thrills, anything that will answer this deep tug when he meets…
Angel of Small Death and the Codeine Scene: the angel. to put it frankly, she’s a badass. she’s gorgeous, and she’s mean, and there’s a mystery to her that brings him back for more. this is the thrill he had mean missing this whole time. the angel has everything he had been looking for, she makes him feel alive, and they enter a whirlwind romance.Â
Foreigner’s God: hozier thinks the angel is perfect. she sees something in him that even he doesn’t know about, and he trusts her. the idea of praising anyone else over her feels wrong, feels foreign. she is the only thing worth praising.
Take Me to Church: simply put, it’s the honeymoon phase. hozier is unbelievably in love with the angel. he worships her, and doesn’t care what anyone else thinks, she is his everything. he dedicates every second of his time. he’s enthralled. she is beauty and sin, good and evil, love and pain are synonymous, she is a god to him.
Work Song: their relationship has begun to settle down a little bit, but he doesn’t love the angel any less than before. they’ve settled into a routine, and he stops and realizes how much he loves her. he’d defy every law of the universe for her. he doesn’t just love her, he trusts her, and would go to hell and back for her.
Sedated: here’s where things begin to take a turn. hozier is still hopelessly in love with the angel, but recognizes that she is not good for him. she became his everything, but now she’s all he has. he feels trapped, but he turns to her because she is the only thing that makes him feel better.Â
Cherry Wine: hozier and the angel begin to fight. she fights with him, yells at him, overall treats him like shit. he is still hopelessly devoted and loves her, and just accepts that this is their relationship now. hozier begins to suspect the angel is cheating on him.
To Be Alone: hozier is “addicted” to the angel. being with her is the only thing that makes him feel better, feel okay, feel alive. hozier knows the angel is seeing someone else, but doesn’t want to bring it up, because he would lose her.Â
It Will Come Back: and now we enter the spooky realm. hozier learns more about the nature of the other man the angel has been seeing, and urges her to cut off ties, for her own safety. halfway through the song we switch POV and learn exactly who it is she’s been seeing. it is the snake, the devil in From Eden, and the angel is eve, evidenced in the lyric “you’ll hear me howling outside your door” which reflects the lyric in From Eden, saying the devil is hiding outside eve’s door, waiting to strike on her new adam.
In The Woods Somewhere: one night, hozier is sick with a fever, and hears a scream out in the woods. terrified for the angel, knowing the kind of danger she’s gotten herself into, he runs out to find her. he quickly realizes he was baited, as the devil begins to hunt him down. hozier runs, but is caught and killed. as he dies, he vows that he is “not done yet.”
Arsonists Lullaby: somewhere between life and death, he remembers the voices he used to hear, the power he used to have, the magic that used to fill his life, that fire that he only began to feel again when he was with the angel. in death, he is reawakened and feels his power.Â
In a Week: the morning after his encounter in the woods. the peace with the forest around him, and the peace that comes in the rot. his spirit is one with the woods, the foxes, the birds and the bugs. he wants to be reunited with his angel, and be home with her.
Run: hozier urges the angel to find him out in the woods, to run to him, to save him. he recognizes her true power. she is the reincarnation of eve, an angel in her own right. she is a deity, a goddess, an immortal. he misses her, aches for her, wants her back, and eve is searching for him, too, looking for her lost adam.
Like Real People Do: eve finds adam. she digs him out from the earth, resurrecting him, and gifting him with immortality, same as her. hozier wants to put aside everything that’s just happened, stop asking questions, stop learning new things about the world and life and just wants to be with eve, and kiss her like real people do. after everything, they deserve to be real people. after dying, it’s time to live again.
Jackie and Wilson: rebirth. two immortals, hozier and the angel, adam and eve, against the world. all they need is each other, they’ve tried the world, it wasn’t for them. every version of hozier is dead and buried in the yard outside, literally and figuratively, seeing as he’s died and left that version of him behind, but also the version of him that was seeking the answers he has found. their life together is one big adventure… until one morning, hozier wakes up, to find the angel has left him. she was always a spitfire, a thrill seeker, and she’s off to catch her next adventure. so hozier, cursed with immortality, forever to walk this earth, is forced to move on.
(when wasteland, baby! comes out, i’ll either piece together the timeline further, or it will be a completely new story, and i can’t wait to find out. moments silence would fit in between angel of small death and foreigners god. NFWMB would be in between arsonists lullaby and in a week, and shrike would be in between in a week and run. almost (sweet music) fits as a next piece to the story after jackie and wilson, learning to move on from the angel.)
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