when hozier said “the likes of a darkness so deep that god at the start couldn’t bear” and when hozier said “i don’t need to know where we begin and end. i’d still know you not being shown you i only need the working of my hands” and when hozier said “i think i owe my life to flowers left here by my mother. ain’t that like them, gifting life to you again” and when hozier said “infinitely suffering, but fighting off like all creation. the absence of itself, anyway” and when hozier said “when i was young i used to guess are there limits to any emptiness?” and when hozier said “heaven is not fit to house a love like you and i” and when hozier said “let me wrap my teeth around the world” and when hozier said “throw enough rope until the legs have swung” and when hozier said “so much of our lives is just carving through the dark to get so far and the hardest part is who we are” and when hozier said “uiscefhuariaithe, the feel of coolness only water brings” and when hozier said “you may never know your fortune until the distance has been shown between what is lost forever and what can still be known” and when hozier said “a butchered tongue still singing here above the ground” and when hozier said “in a shot i’d swap my body for a body of water” and hozier said “trapped within an abstract from a moment of my life” and when hozier said “do you know i could break beneath the weight? of the goodness, love, i still carry for you” and when