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another hozier song about state violence, another group of people that do not seem to get that even though it’s super incredibly glaringly obvious. even more obvious than usual
look at these lyrics for two seconds and use your big kid brains, I promise you can do it
Happy St Patrick’s day. Irish history is incredibly dark and rage inducing
hi i’m seeing no one talk about this cover??? this is HAUNTING, it’s dedicated it to everyone who’s died from the coronavirus so far especially healthcare staff i just,,,
Hozier singing trad song “The Parting Glass”
Other celebrities: (goopily drip upon, of all things, “imagine”)
Us: (call for the guillotine)
Hozier: (a bittersweet lad, sings an ancient song to the departed)
Us: play this over silent, crisply shot black and white footage of the empty streets and silent landmarks. cut with shots of our drowning hospitals. An acceptable future documentary of 2020 that we will allow.
My audio processing isnt working in the brain. Can someone PLEASE tell me what the crud he’s saying because all i can make out are sounds not words
Saw your post while skimming through the reblog and did not see an answer, so for accessibility! Hozier is singing the following:
Of all the money that e’er I had / I spend it in good company
And of all the harm that e’er I done / Alas it was to none but me
For all I’ve done for want of wit / to memory now I can’t recall
So fill to me the parting glass / good night and joy be with you all.
Of all the comrades that e’er I had / they’re sorry for my going away
And of all the sweethearts that e’er I had / they’d wish me one more day to stay
But as it falls unto my lot / that I must go and you must not
I’ll gently rise and I’ll softly call / good night and joy be with you all.
when i first read the lyrics to this a year or so ago, i always thought it was a sad song (contrary to what google says about it being a pub song), and hearing this solemn and heartfelt rendition by hozier always makes me tear up
Google’s technically right, it is a pub song, but not in the sense you’re thinking. This is what I call an “end of the night” song - these tend to be somber, nostalgic, and contain references to a final drink/toast eg “the parting glass” usually either in memory of death, or in the knowledge of death to come. Others include Auld Lang Syne and Health to the Company. They’re “let’s drink to old times because we might not all meet here again” songs.
In Welsh-speaking Wales, it’s Yma o Hyd. Which actually translates to “We’re still here lol”, but it’s not a joke song. Yma o Hyd is a resistance song about how, in spite of everyone and everything that England has done and tried to do to us, we’re still here. We’re still able to go to the pub, and join together in a shared community, in Welsh. We’re still a culture that can do this. We’re still here.
It even has a verse name dropping Thatcher.
Been thinking more about Hozier’s “Sunlight” (which I found on an ofmd playlist. i never seek out Hozier songs, but they find me and hold me captive)
I looked up song meanings, what other ppl had to say, and I gotta say I was a little surprised? People are like “oh this is a happy song! I wanna be loved like that!” And I’m? Idk that isn’t the vibe I get from it, at least not entirely.
I feel like he is talking about two kinds of love, the kind that warms and brightens and the kind that burns. These are both sunlight, bc sunlight can do both of these things.
There is so much contrast in these lyrics! Even just the first verse
I would shun the light, share in evening’s cool and quiet
Who would trade that hum of night?
For sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
This is talking about the harsh, glaring midday sun. Who would ever trade a cool evening for that? The night is comforting and safe. People who feel more energized in the evenings, you know what I mean.
But then you get
But whose heart would not take flight?
Betray the moon as acolyte
On first and fierce affirming sight
Of sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
If you’ve been living in darkness and cold and finally, finally there is light and warmth? Of course you would turn away from the moon and towards the sun.
Then this whole verse, which I just love, illustrates the warmth and burning of sunlight!
Each day, you’d rise with me
Know that I would gladly be
The Icarus to your certainty
Oh, my sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
Strap the wing to me
Death trap clad happily
With wax melted, I’d meet the sea
Under sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
This is just!! This is knowing that sunlight and love are destructive, going in with eyes open, accepting the eventual pain, because you love the person so much. You will allow them to lift you up and pull you along. Eventually you will crash, but you will still be under that sunlight. And it’s worth it.
Then the chorus!
Oh, your love is sunlight
Oh, your love is sunlight
But it is sunlight
Your love is “sunlight” (warmth and light, attractive and soul affirming)
But it is “sunlight” (burning and destructive pain)
I could do more verses, but I don’t want this to get too long. I just had to yell about this!! I love how he is like ‘this word has two meanings. I will make those meanings clear, but I will only use this one word, so you can feel the triumph and the tragedy and maybe understand why someone would put themself through fire just to feel warm.’
florence welch: probably like 200 BCE celtic queen
keeanu reeves: 1500 renaissance hoe
jeff goldblum: late 1800′s i would guess
harry styles: fairly new immortal, 1970′s
lorde: 1920′s flapper era
hozier: man who even knows, rough estimate is like, 400 BCE
john mulaney: 1930′s/40′s, still bitter about the great depression probably and if he could put it in a bit with out being #exposed he would
paul rudd: newest to the immortal club, didn’t age past the 1990′s
I feel like this list is forgetting Sir Patrick Stewart who I believe has not aged since 7000 BCE.. After all his twin brother was the Kennewick man..
as a self-appointed expert on Hozier, i would say that date is possibly accurate.
many of Hozier’s songs reference being buried in the earth (In a Week, Work Song), and some are directly inspired by bog bodies (Like Real People Do, Run). two of the most famous Irish bog bodies, Old Croghan Man and Clonycavan Man, are dated between 392 and 175 BCE, and both are speculated to have been kings ritually sacrificed to the goddess of the land. in Take Me to Church, Hozier demonstrates a willingness to offer sacrifices to a goddess, and in Foreigner’s God, he thinks fondly upon the image of a pre-Christian Ireland (“when the land was God-less and free”). as well, Old Croghan Man is estimated to have been about 6′6, and Hozier is about 6′5.
the only possible flaw in this theory is that in a Facebook Q&A (here at 5:28), Hozier says that he is over 3000 years old. 400 BCE only puts him at ~2400. it could be that after so many years he’s lost track of how many thousands, but another possibility is that he is more contemporaneous with an older bog body, the Cashel Man, also presumed to be a sacrificed king. that would put him closer to 4000 than 3000, but again, we could forgive an immortal for getting his millenia wrong.
in any case,
it seems likely to me that Hozier is an ancient Irish king who was ritually sacrificed to the old gods, but somehow returned (possibly through intervention by said old gods) to give us music subtly hinting at his experiences.
this hozier addition is frighteningly detailed and I’m here for it
Thank you, cryptid Tumblr, for always having the best answers.
