All the comments on here are like a year old so I'm not sure if anyone will see this, but i think i just had a religious experience with this song?? I've not been feeling very mentally sound as of late, the world being what it is right now and a lot of stress in my personal life as well. Today in particular I was feeling especially bad. Well, there was a little thunderstorm going through my town, I could hear the rain and thunder raging on outside. I'm not sure what possessed me to do it but I decided to go out and see it. I grabbed my jacket, umbrella, and phone, and went outside. I thought I should listen to something while I stood there, so I picked this. It was so perfect it almost felt timed. The rain and the thunder raged loudly in the background while he sang throughout the song, and then, at the very end, as his voice trailed off and the guitar faded away, the rain dissipated to a drizzle and I could hear birds singing. I heard him say "That's it.", and chuckle as I took a deep breath and for the first time in a long time I felt ok. I felt hope that things in the future are going to be ok. I'm not sure if anyone will read this comment that's already way too long, but I hope that I remember that experience for the rest of my life. We're going to be ok, and I really believe that now.
That is so beautiful. I also feel as like his music let´s me know everything will be fine. These times are so hard and with so many things going on we forget about the beauty of life. Just being alive. I loved your comment and your experience. All will be well. Hope you are doing fine now
@@shaycornacorn After hearing this live the other night I told my wife that were something to ever happen to me this needed to be played on repeat at my deathbed.
notyourstalker41319 was found dead in the swamps one month ago cause of death is suspected to be murder by hozier's voice, but no foul play was involved, officials say fjkskahfl
There is no artist out there that has made me want for Wasteland like Hozier, and maybe its because I can see his version of a Wasteland being steroid trees
@@cthulhujankinx5652 yESS-- An endless forest, with ginormous trees that you don't know the end of other than the leaves far in the sky and the sun filtering through them. Unable to be cut down, trunks too thick to even think to do so. And the people living and loving between them
I feel like this song isn’t actually about the apocalypse, but it’s metaphor for the way we feel when we fall in love. Everything else stops mattering as much. There’s a lot of shitty things in life, but sometimes that loses meaning when we fall in love. Everything else can be burning up around us but we find peace in that one person.
Before he sang this song during his concert in Zurich last autumn, Hozier actually told the audience that he wrote this song the same day when he read that the time on the so called Doomsday Clock was moved by the scientists to one minute before twelve. He said that he had read that, that he thought of the warning and in what grim situation the entire planet was, then he said that he sat down to write a love song, and this came out. It was chilling to hear him say that, and he mentioned the current bad situation in the world three times during that concert, before this one and also two other songs he sang. His song lyrics are mostly very symbolic and metaphorical, but he himself said that this was genuinely about loving someone as the world around you desintegrates into chaos and destruction.
I always assumed it was because the world is on fire and dying where it isn't but the peace you found in that person made it okay. I assumes that they were friends who became friends who became lovers, so doomed to end. The person becomes the wasteland because that's where you live in this shitty world.
My girlfriend and I saw him last night, in Raleigh, NC, where he said he first came up with the song during his last tour. He played the sounds of rain in the background, just like the night he came up with the idea of the song. It was one of the most beautiful things I've ever experienced, holding her and swaying and just listening to this beautiful voice sing. Seeing Hozier live is really a magical experience.
I assumed that this song would be like "FCK the world, let's go down fighting" but what I got was a pure emotion of adoring someone to your soul. Like in the far future when our Sun finally dies- that quiet moment as you and people you care about stare at the sky as and you see the end of our solar system. Kind of like that old couple in Titanic to chose to stay in the boat.
Sheena, long before the sun dies, it will become a Red Giant, expand to engulf the earth, and completely incinerate it. No one will be around to see the death of the Sun or the end of our solar system. That should comfort you, except for the incineration thing.
@@billdumas5347 I know you aint talking to me but that makes me more uncomfortable tbh. I just want to watch the sun explode in peace and die without pain. But thats impossible lol
To me, it sounds more like he is freezing, which i think is even more charming somehow than the idea that he is singing this from the bottom of the sea
My boyfriend and I want to slow dance to this at our wedding as a nod to how everything was when we started dating. Everything was chaotic and there was a lot of fear, but two men found comfort and peace in each other and things seemed less scary.
All the fear and the fire of the end of the world Happens each time a boy falls in love with a girl Happens great, happens sweet Happily, I'm unfazed here, too Wasteland, baby I'm in love, I'm in love with you All the things yet to come are the things that have passed Like the old enough hands, like the breaking of glass Like the bonfire that burns, at all worth in the fight fell too Wasteland, baby I'm in love, I'm in love with you And I love too, that love soon might end Be known in its aching Shown in the shaking Lately of my wasteland, baby Be still, my indelible friend, you are unbreaking Though quaking, though crazy That's just wasteland, baby And that day that we watch the death of the sun That the cloud and the cold and those jeans you have on And you gaze unafraid as they sob from the city ruins Wasteland, baby I'm in love, I'm in love with you And I love too, that love soon might end Be known in its aching Shown in the shaking Lately of my wasteland, baby Be still, my indelible friend, you are unbreaking Though quaking, though crazy That's just wasteland, baby And the stance of the sea and the absence of green Are the death of all things that I've seen and unseen Aren't end, but the start of all things that are left to do Wasteland, baby I'm in love, I'm in love with you (That's it)
Not to be that guy, but that sounds like synth, not xylophone. A xylo would make a more wooden sound. - a mallet percussion player trying to educate the public about a lost art
I feel like i can't really listen to new hozier songs consecutively because each one needs to sink in properly first and let go of my soul before I can move to the next. Only thing is, that can take over weeks :/
He's got that vintage rotary speaker in some of his videos. I'm guessing it's the guitar mic picking up the vox. It's on his inhales too, so I think it's effect.
No one is probably going to see this, but I just wanted to say that I really love Hozier's music and this song in particular. All of his song convey different emotions that I can feel all the time, but this song is so soothing and has really helped me with my anxiety in recent times.
This, but playing in an abandoned church that you and your lover holed up in. It's been years since the apocalypse began and things look dire. Food is running out and there is no more clean water to be found. Nuclear fallout has turned everything grey. It is cold; warmth is a dream from a faraway past. In a few days, you will be too weak to move and find supplies and a better shelter. You both agree to just stay here, holding each other until the end. This is what you hear on your final morning: you wake up to your lover serenading you, and the world that has fallen apart. Edit: I cried at the thought of this too, I see y’all
I cry listening to this song because it reminds me of how much love I have to give and nobody to love. I want someone to show Hozier's songs to and say, "This is how I feel about you."
@@gabby3868 i am so glad that you found your loving partner. Even i found someone this year, it's magical, it's like the comfort we'd been seeking all our lives.
@@Amina2544 me. I want to like in a small cottage in the wood with my cottagecore girlfriend, baking blueberry and lemon tarts as the world slowly dies around us; living off the land till the land at 'no more'.
This song takes me to a time when i could crawl into my mother's lap and feel absolutely safe knowing nothing will harm me. I love you Hozier for making me feel like this.
I know its not exactly the right interpretation but this is how I told my boyfriend I loved him for the first time. We sat on the floor in the dark and let the song play. we were definitely the corny couple that just cried and held each other. still can't listen to this song without feeling all warm and sunny inside.
All the fear and the fire of the end of the world Happens each time a boy falls in love with a girl Happens great, happens sweet Happily, I'm unfazed here, too [Chorus] Wasteland, baby I'm in love, I'm in love with you [Verse 2] All the things yet to come are the things that have passed Like the holding of hands, like the breaking of glass Like the bonfire that burns, at all worth in the fight fell too [Chorus] Wasteland, baby I'm in love, I'm in love with you And I love too, that love soon might end Be known in its aching Shown in the shaking Lately of my wasteland, baby Be still, my indelible friend, you are unbreaking Though quaking, though crazy That's just wasteland, baby [Verse 3] And that day that we watch the death of the sun That the cloud and the cold and those jeans you have on And you gaze unafraid as they sob from the city ruins [Chorus] Wasteland, baby I'm in love, I'm in love with you And I love too, that love soon might end Be known in its aching Shown in the shaking Lately of my wasteland, baby Be still, my indelible friend, you are unbreaking Though quaking, though crazy That's just wasteland, baby [Bridge] And the stench of the sea and the absence of green Are the death of all things that are seen and unseen Not an end, but the start of all things that are left to do [Chorus] Wasteland, baby I'm in love, I'm in love with you [Outro] That's it
[Verse 1] All the fear and the fire of the end of the world Happens each time a boy falls in love with a girl Happens great, happens sweet Happily, I'm unfazed here, too [Chorus] Wasteland, baby I'm in love, I'm in love with you [Verse 2] All the things yet to come are the things that have passed Like the holding of hands, like the breaking of glass Like the bonfire that burns, at all worth in the fight fell too [Chorus] Wasteland, baby I'm in love, I'm in love with you And I love too, that love soon might end Be known in its aching Shown in the shaking Lately of my wasteland, baby Be still, my indelible friend, you are unbreaking Though quaking, though crazy That's just wasteland, baby [Verse 3] And that day that we watch the death of the sun That the cloud and the cold and those jeans you have on And you gaze unafraid as they sob from the city ruins [Chorus] Wasteland, baby I'm in love, I'm in love with you And I love too, that love soon might end Be known in its aching Shown in the shaking Lately of my wasteland, baby Be still, my indelible friend, you are unbreaking Though quaking, though crazy That's just wasteland, baby [Bridge] And the stench of the sea and the absence of green Are the death of all things that are seen and unseen Not an end, but the start of all things that are left to do [Chorus] Wasteland, baby I'm in love, I'm in love with you [Outro] That's it
I know nobodys going to see this, so i feel ok puting my thoughts thoughts out here. I have a near paralyzing fear of thunderstorms, to the point where i cant even drive through them without fear of crashing from my own worry. And this song right here has put me to sleep many a nights where its thundering and lightning.
So dreamy and beautiful. He’s intensely private, but I can’t help wonder who he’s in love with. The last album was about love lost; this one is about love found.
This song makes me feel so calm and validated. It reminds me of when I went camping as a kid, before everything went wrong in my life. When I’d stare at the sky in that wide open field; there were so many stars, too many to count.
We would hike for hours to a waterfall, and strip down to our bathing suits and jump in the frigid water. We would wander in creeks and collect all the sorts of creatures that his under rocks. We’d dry off on the bank, and eat PB&J sandwiches and trail mix. At night, The camp counselor would play his guitar, and we’d sing along and eat s’mores, and tell funny and scary stories to each other. Maps of the woods we explored were made, and we played tag in the dark, screaming and laughing in tandem with the curious nocturnal wildlife.
@@gonkythegnk1046 I love going backpacking in various parts of the rockie mountains. i haven't gone alone yet and i know it's a bad idea but i would love to. when you're out there it's like nothing human matters anymore. every problem back home is meaningless while you're standing in the vastness of an open canyon or the pureness of a hidden forest, or the incredible power of a waterfall that will continue to flow and cutaway through the earth long after me and everyone i know are gone. if i were to die out there i wouldn't mind. what a place to spend your final moments.
Saw him in Raleigh on Saturday and he told us that this song was inspired by a huge storm that almost canceled his last concert in Raleigh a couple of years ago. He said that he had never experience the sensation of the clean warm southern rain and it soothed him. While he was in his hotel room, he was just "noodling" on his guitar and came up with the instrumental for this song. He played the track from that night and played with it before starting the song. BEST CONCERT EVER.
Whilst drowning I saw the true desires of my heart. The conundrum of life. My existence tries to pass me by, but when I look into your eyes, you’re the light amidst the strife. Dear wasteland baby.
This song is my ABSOLUTE favorite. Just how eloquently he puts it, it just seems like such an ethereal and lovely experience to truly love someone. Like to love someone until the end of the earth, THAT sort of bond. His lyrics are just so freaking poetic and perfect.
There is nothing like listening to Hozier in a whicker chair, eating blackberries on a full moon, closing your eyes and reciting lyrics, and studing all day and realizing I've pushed myself and need to take a break. Hozier you will always be my voice of reason and relaxation - love from America but destined to live on the Italian countryside
If you lie down on your side and close your eyes while listening to this song, you’ll feel someone gently cradling you, with their heartbeat on your shoulder blade and their hand tracing your arm and GOD how did you do it Hozier???
Listning to this Song in a bubble bath with the daylight reflecting through a small window decoration with small glass crystals is such a religiously experience i feel like im gonna cry
its like being whispered by some entity, luring you to his home on a rainy afternoon. Cold, damp, refreshing, dark. Being summoned in the middle of the dark woods either ita drizzling or after the rain. The smell of grass, leaves and wood after the rain. Thats it. Youre done.
Every song of him would fit perfectly for a very special moment in a movie, i wish he could participate on a movie soundtrack some day, it would be perfect!
Whenever i hear him singing, i feel like my heart tries to crawl out of my chest and i always want to cry. But in a good way. It's just so bittersweet.
I was driving through the Great Smoky Mountains when this came on. The sunrise, the clouds clinging to the valleys, and the solitude of being in a car by myself just driving on mountain roads pretty much alone at 8:00 in the morning all combined made the whole experience almost ethereal.
First time i listened to this I legit blacked out and woke up at the little "that's it" at the end with such a strong feeling of longing in my chest despite the fact none of the lyrics actually registered in my mind that I started crying so like yeah this guy's magic I think
I've been through the deaths of partners, friends, family, etc. I cried when my 6 year old said she wanted to hear this song. Like, full on bawling like a little boy, on the side of the road no less. This is beautiful. This is love. This is life.
I feel divinely favored after listening to this entire album. Like, I had to exist in this era only so that I could experience Hozier. And I am grateful. 🙏 Thank you Hozier.
I was drawing while listening through the album. When I got to this song, I stopped. I couldn’t bring myself to do anything but lay back and drink it in. It’s not the first time I’ve heard this song, but it brought me to tears inexplicably today. It’s beauty demands your attention, and it has mine.
This song truly has been a savior for me, when I’m angry, sad, or in a funk where I don’t feel like myself, I always find my way back to this song and it puts me in a state of calm that is truly unexplainable. I feel like I’m floating in a sea of the emotion that I’m feeling, then while I listen I swim to the surface and I find myself again, in the calm of this song. And in the time that we are in, quarantine has made it so easy to feel stuck and isolated, but this song has helped me calm my nerves and feel better about the world, thank you Hozier for creating this masterpiece
I'm in my room, crying, listening to this song thirty minutes before 2020 will finally be over. Oh man, was it a wasteland. But I have some great memories. It was a year that broke me, mentally and physically. But there were several moments that I felt strong, and I felt ok. And those moments in this year of horror were a feeling of relief I dont ever think that I could recreate. Goodbye 2020, thanks for the memories. Won't miss you.
I wrote the most devastating story to this song, but it’s really this one quote from it that gets me every time: “I remember getting curious after his death and reading through the journal he kept. He planned on marrying me after our show, and proposing onstage,” she said, tears welling up in her eyes, “it’s how I said I wanted my future to go when we first met.”
This song gives you peace, happiness and light-headedness. The quality very few songs possess and only a few people can make happen. It’s like sitting outside during autumn and observing things around you slowly pass by. The breeze blowing swiftly over your head, birds chirping and gorgeous clouds above you. It’s that feeling when you have no stress, no worries and are in a state of mental happiness. 🤍 Pure bliss. 🌻
Another song that helps people through the trials and tribulations of life. This song really gets me man, it's this kind of peace I can't find on my own. Thanks Hozier, for another legendary piece for the world
All the comments on here are like a year old so I'm not sure if anyone will see this, but i think i just had a religious experience with this song?? I've not been feeling very mentally sound as of late, the world being what it is right now and a lot of stress in my personal life as well. Today in particular I was feeling especially bad. Well, there was a little thunderstorm going through my town, I could hear the rain and thunder raging on outside. I'm not sure what possessed me to do it but I decided to go out and see it. I grabbed my jacket, umbrella, and phone, and went outside. I thought I should listen to something while I stood there, so I picked this. It was so perfect it almost felt timed. The rain and the thunder raged loudly in the background while he sang throughout the song, and then, at the very end, as his voice trailed off and the guitar faded away, the rain dissipated to a drizzle and I could hear birds singing. I heard him say "That's it.", and chuckle as I took a deep breath and for the first time in a long time I felt ok. I felt hope that things in the future are going to be ok. I'm not sure if anyone will read this comment that's already way too long, but I hope that I remember that experience for the rest of my life. We're going to be ok, and I really believe that now.
I believe it too
That is so beautiful. I also feel as like his music let´s me know everything will be fine. These times are so hard and with so many things going on we forget about the beauty of life. Just being alive. I loved your comment and your experience. All will be well. Hope you are doing fine now
He is a magician and I am glad that you are feeling better. 💜💜💜💜💜
All things Unknown will be known to those who choose love. This a unique and beautiful experience!
I wouldn’t say religious. I WOULD however say spiritual, friend. 🙂
Yes Hozier, give us that post apocalyptic lullaby
seeing this comment while stuck in quarantine a year later, feels like a bad omen
@@f-emme6133 it was a warning based on his prophetic visions. we just didn't take it seriously so here we are.
Apocalypse has just begun
@@dmo4657 it has gone on for a long time now, we're just now realizing it. there's no going back from this .
Oof, even people 1 month ago couldn't predict how bad it's get, here's to change and hopefully for 6 months of change and recovery
Did he just end it with “that’s it” and a chuckle? Im found dead in the swamps
I heard that to sjjsjsgsjajs my funeral will be held monday please play this album while they lower me down
No worries he won't do a Janis Joplin
Am shooketh
@@shaycornacorn After hearing this live the other night I told my wife that were something to ever happen to me this needed to be played on repeat at my deathbed.
notyourstalker41319 was found dead in the swamps one month ago
cause of death is suspected to be murder by hozier's voice, but no foul play was involved, officials say
fjkskahfl
this is so soft, it’s like you’re being sung to sleep
a lullaby to ease your nerves as the world dies
I haven't read a comment more relatable than this.
This comment aged like fine wine
Hits a little different in 2020😷
this comment is wayyy to relevant right now :/
I feel like this has the energy as the band playing while the titanic sunk
He makes the word 'wasteland' sound like a coveted paradise
"I'm in love, I'm in love" 😭😭😭😭😭
You said it. Coveted paradise
There is no artist out there that has made me want for Wasteland like Hozier, and maybe its because I can see his version of a Wasteland being steroid trees
@@cthulhujankinx5652 yESS--
An endless forest, with ginormous trees that you don't know the end of other than the leaves far in the sky and the sun filtering through them. Unable to be cut down, trunks too thick to even think to do so. And the people living and loving between them
Honestly yeo
I feel like this song isn’t actually about the apocalypse, but it’s metaphor for the way we feel when we fall in love. Everything else stops mattering as much. There’s a lot of shitty things in life, but sometimes that loses meaning when we fall in love. Everything else can be burning up around us but we find peace in that one person.
I donno if you aren't already happy sadness maybe all you've ever known. Nice interpretation though
Before he sang this song during his concert in Zurich last autumn, Hozier actually told the audience that he wrote this song the same day when he read that the time on the so called Doomsday Clock was moved by the scientists to one minute before twelve. He said that he had read that, that he thought of the warning and in what grim situation the entire planet was, then he said that he sat down to write a love song, and this came out. It was chilling to hear him say that, and he mentioned the current bad situation in the world three times during that concert, before this one and also two other songs he sang. His song lyrics are mostly very symbolic and metaphorical, but he himself said that this was genuinely about loving someone as the world around you desintegrates into chaos and destruction.
Nah its actually about the apocalypse, apparently.
I feel the same way too, no matter if it is actually about apocalypse 😂
I always assumed it was because the world is on fire and dying where it isn't but the peace you found in that person made it okay. I assumes that they were friends who became friends who became lovers, so doomed to end. The person becomes the wasteland because that's where you live in this shitty world.
My girlfriend and I saw him last night, in Raleigh, NC, where he said he first came up with the song during his last tour. He played the sounds of rain in the background, just like the night he came up with the idea of the song. It was one of the most beautiful things I've ever experienced, holding her and swaying and just listening to this beautiful voice sing. Seeing Hozier live is really a magical experience.
Nicole Butler That’s so close!! I wish I would’ve gone to see him
The swaying part is awesome man
LOVE THIS!
Awwww y'all are cute **cries in single and will never find a man**
Hi just a life update she proposed to me last night! We’re getting married and have already decided this is going to be our wedding dance song.
“That’s it” was officially the last thing I heard this decade
Same
in a weird way that’s really symbolic because 2019 feels like the last normal year 😳
No cause I passed away upon hearing it
Depression, Cured
Wig, Snatched
Wasteland, baby
hotel, trivago
@@courtshepard5410 that too
so ure a billie eilish fan a joji fan a rich brian fan and a hozier fan?
welcome
Hotel, Trivago
@@sami6998 someone beat you to it😂
I assumed that this song would be like "FCK the world, let's go down fighting" but what I got was a pure emotion of adoring someone to your soul. Like in the far future when our Sun finally dies- that quiet moment as you and people you care about stare at the sky as and you see the end of our solar system.
Kind of like that old couple in Titanic to chose to stay in the boat.
“As Mack explained there will be darkness again”, as Hozier says in No Plan.
Shenna this made me actually cry i’m so emotional
Sheena, long before the sun dies, it will become a Red Giant, expand to engulf the earth, and completely incinerate it. No one will be around to see the death of the Sun or the end of our solar system. That should comfort you, except for the incineration thing.
holly shit, I got shivers
@@billdumas5347 I know you aint talking to me but that makes me more uncomfortable tbh. I just want to watch the sun explode in peace and die without pain. But thats impossible lol
His voice edited to sound like he's singing from below the water just makes this more special.
yes...and it goes perfectly with the beautiful album cover his mom painted.
that's not editing he can just do that
Cause he's a selki
Not such a fan of that, actually, but I do understand it's part of the atmosphere
To me, it sounds more like he is freezing, which i think is even more charming somehow than the idea that he is singing this from the bottom of the sea
"That's it."
WHO TF CAN MAKE WHISPERS SOUND LIKE ART THIS IS SO UNFAIR OMG
pure art
I had an assumption that wasteland, baby might be upbeat but damn this is even better.
Baryonic Matter same
same, probably because of the ! at the title
My boyfriend and I want to slow dance to this at our wedding as a nod to how everything was when we started dating. Everything was chaotic and there was a lot of fear, but two men found comfort and peace in each other and things seemed less scary.
@mira lasy We plan on it
Aww :; ) did you do it?! That sounds great
All the fear and the fire of the end of the world
Happens each time a boy falls in love with a girl
Happens great, happens sweet
Happily, I'm unfazed here, too
Wasteland, baby
I'm in love, I'm in love with you
All the things yet to come are the things that have passed
Like the old enough hands, like the breaking of glass
Like the bonfire that burns, at all worth in the fight fell too
Wasteland, baby
I'm in love, I'm in love with you
And I love too, that love soon might end
Be known in its aching
Shown in the shaking
Lately of my wasteland, baby
Be still, my indelible friend, you are unbreaking
Though quaking, though crazy
That's just wasteland, baby
And that day that we watch the death of the sun
That the cloud and the cold and those jeans you have on
And you gaze unafraid as they sob from the city ruins
Wasteland, baby
I'm in love, I'm in love with you
And I love too, that love soon might end
Be known in its aching
Shown in the shaking
Lately of my wasteland, baby
Be still, my indelible friend, you are unbreaking
Though quaking, though crazy
That's just wasteland, baby
And the stance of the sea and the absence of green
Are the death of all things that I've seen and unseen
Aren't end, but the start of all things that are left to do
Wasteland, baby
I'm in love, I'm in love with you
(That's it)
I heard "like the holding of hands"
Thank you!!
Thank you 🙏
Thank you❤
Who reads the lyrics as the song played
The little xylophone noises that start at 1:43 sound like what sun rays reflecting on water looks like. I’m in love
I honestly need that sound alone 😭 reminds me of a soundtrack from mario.. and ive been looking for days 🤕
That is a perfect representation.
That was so beautiful. Now I'm in love with you
Not to be that guy, but that sounds like synth, not xylophone. A xylo would make a more wooden sound. - a mallet percussion player trying to educate the public about a lost art
i love this comment
this song just licked the inside of my soul
Same... I'm crying on the inside "I'm in love with you, and i love too, that love soon might end and be known in its aching" 😪😪😪😪
The "that's it, at the end of the song" 😭
licked is a way to describe it lol
Didn't know this was how I felt but then you described it perfectly
I would say that's kind of a weird description. But that was probably also the most accurate description. 🙌
I feel like i can't really listen to new hozier songs consecutively because each one needs to sink in properly first and let go of my soul before I can move to the next. Only thing is, that can take over weeks :/
Omgg finally someone who can relate to me😭😭😭😭
👏👏 well said!!
OMG I feel the same way!!!
THIS!!!
jaja sameeee and continues to be that way
I love what he did to make his voice sound fuzzy and shaky, makes it more emotional
yeah wondering if it's on purpose to make it sound like from underwater xDD
@@hanami741 It is, you can hear it clearly in the end. When he says at last "That's it"
Reminds me of Sleeping Lessons by The Shins. Same underwater feeling but totally different vibe.
Pretty sure he's just using vibrato
He's got that vintage rotary speaker in some of his videos. I'm guessing it's the guitar mic picking up the vox. It's on his inhales too, so I think it's effect.
This song is so gentle and yet so intense at the same time and I can’t get enough of it. Can I inject Hozier straight into my veins?
Careful, you might overdose.
I am literally having some sort of goose bumps out here🙆
Delta Knight what a fuckin way to go out though, ey
He makes the swamps sound like heaven
Don't be fooled, swamps are hot, muggy, and seething with things that want you dead
@@theamazingtristini3251 sounds awesome
The Amazing Tristini He’s like a siren
@@theamazingtristini3251 so is L.A.
No one is probably going to see this, but I just wanted to say that I really love Hozier's music and this song in particular. All of his song convey different emotions that I can feel all the time, but this song is so soothing and has really helped me with my anxiety in recent times.
This, but playing in an abandoned church that you and your lover holed up in. It's been years since the apocalypse began and things look dire.
Food is running out and there is no more clean water to be found. Nuclear fallout has turned everything grey. It is cold; warmth is a dream from a faraway past.
In a few days, you will be too weak to move and find supplies and a better shelter. You both agree to just stay here, holding each other until the end.
This is what you hear on your final morning: you wake up to your lover serenading you, and the world that has fallen apart.
Edit: I cried at the thought of this too, I see y’all
this made me cry
uhh? yes please?¿
Korina Cubric really? Aww 😢
Beautiful.
This is absolutely beautiful
I cry listening to this song because it reminds me of how much love I have to give and nobody to love. I want someone to show Hozier's songs to and say, "This is how I feel about you."
Gabby i just want to love and be loved back, you know ?
@@madelineshrimp Yes, exactly!
I hope things got better for you
@@toastyretinas thank you, they did! I now have someone I love and he loves me back, and it's a very wholesome relationship
@@gabby3868 i am so glad that you found your loving partner. Even i found someone this year, it's magical, it's like the comfort we'd been seeking all our lives.
do you ever hear a song that makes you softly say "oh..."??
Literally so many of Hozier songs, but he's one of the only artists who make me do that
im planning on playing this song on new years eve at 11:55:43 so he whispers "thats it" at 12 :)
edit: I DID IT AND IT WAS SO GOOD
Wow that's great... -ish it's kinda the end of the world now ._.
@@gabrielsiteny it was a fitting song for this year :')
I guess it actually ended up a wasteland
thanks :) for :) that :)
Look at what you did
That exclamation point tricked me into thinking this was gonna be upbeat....but I ain't even mad because it's beautiful. I actually had to sit down.
he really took the whole bog man thing and ran with it, huh
@Paul Nightwolf hozier is a bog man, and lives in a bog in a forest. not really, but the fandom decided that based off his music and energy
@Paul Nightwolf Well, since Hozier appeared, EVERYONE wants to live in a forest. Including me.
@@Amina2544 me. I want to like in a small cottage in the wood with my cottagecore girlfriend, baking blueberry and lemon tarts as the world slowly dies around us; living off the land till the land at 'no more'.
@@Amina2544 living in a cave/patch of moss is truly the dream
Bog king take me to your bog
why does that sound like Ocean Man
wait
@@moth6016 love that
(to the tune of mister sandman)
mister bog king
take me to your bog
make it wet and
let there be frogs
@@bunnie7831 genius
The whispered "that's it" at the end? My god, just take my soul already.
This song takes me to a time when i could crawl into my mother's lap and feel absolutely safe knowing nothing will harm me. I love you Hozier for making me feel like this.
I know its not exactly the right interpretation but this is how I told my boyfriend I loved him for the first time. We sat on the floor in the dark and let the song play. we were definitely the corny couple that just cried and held each other. still can't listen to this song without feeling all warm and sunny inside.
All the fear and the fire of the end of the world
Happens each time a boy falls in love with a girl
Happens great, happens sweet
Happily, I'm unfazed here, too
[Chorus]
Wasteland, baby
I'm in love, I'm in love with you
[Verse 2]
All the things yet to come are the things that have passed
Like the holding of hands, like the breaking of glass
Like the bonfire that burns, at all worth in the fight fell too
[Chorus]
Wasteland, baby
I'm in love, I'm in love with you
And I love too, that love soon might end
Be known in its aching
Shown in the shaking
Lately of my wasteland, baby
Be still, my indelible friend, you are unbreaking
Though quaking, though crazy
That's just wasteland, baby
[Verse 3]
And that day that we watch the death of the sun
That the cloud and the cold and those jeans you have on
And you gaze unafraid as they sob from the city ruins
[Chorus]
Wasteland, baby
I'm in love, I'm in love with you
And I love too, that love soon might end
Be known in its aching
Shown in the shaking
Lately of my wasteland, baby
Be still, my indelible friend, you are unbreaking
Though quaking, though crazy
That's just wasteland, baby
[Bridge]
And the stench of the sea and the absence of green
Are the death of all things that are seen and unseen
Not an end, but the start of all things that are left to do
[Chorus]
Wasteland, baby
I'm in love, I'm in love with you
[Outro]
That's it
After almost five years, this album is finally here and it was worth the wait. Now let's gonna take our shoes off and walk on the forest.
[Verse 1]
All the fear and the fire of the end of the world
Happens each time a boy falls in love with a girl
Happens great, happens sweet
Happily, I'm unfazed here, too
[Chorus]
Wasteland, baby
I'm in love, I'm in love with you
[Verse 2]
All the things yet to come are the things that have passed
Like the holding of hands, like the breaking of glass
Like the bonfire that burns, at all worth in the fight fell too
[Chorus]
Wasteland, baby
I'm in love, I'm in love with you
And I love too, that love soon might end
Be known in its aching
Shown in the shaking
Lately of my wasteland, baby
Be still, my indelible friend, you are unbreaking
Though quaking, though crazy
That's just wasteland, baby
[Verse 3]
And that day that we watch the death of the sun
That the cloud and the cold and those jeans you have on
And you gaze unafraid as they sob from the city ruins
[Chorus]
Wasteland, baby
I'm in love, I'm in love with you
And I love too, that love soon might end
Be known in its aching
Shown in the shaking
Lately of my wasteland, baby
Be still, my indelible friend, you are unbreaking
Though quaking, though crazy
That's just wasteland, baby
[Bridge]
And the stench of the sea and the absence of green
Are the death of all things that are seen and unseen
Not an end, but the start of all things that are left to do
[Chorus]
Wasteland, baby
I'm in love, I'm in love with you
[Outro]
That's it
I'll take this song as Hozier finally admitting to being immortal.
Truth.
I know nobodys going to see this, so i feel ok puting my thoughts thoughts out here.
I have a near paralyzing fear of thunderstorms, to the point where i cant even drive through them without fear of crashing from my own worry. And this song right here has put me to sleep many a nights where its thundering and lightning.
It doesn’t matter how many years pass, again and again and again I find myself returning to this album, this song in particular…
At the end when he whispers "Thats it", my heart skipped a beat. Wow, just wow.
So dreamy and beautiful. He’s intensely private, but I can’t help wonder who he’s in love with. The last album was about love lost; this one is about love found.
If we knew the world was in its last hours, I’d curl up with my family and my pets and turn this on in my precious, final moments.
Thank you, Hozier.
This song makes me feel so calm and validated. It reminds me of when I went camping as a kid, before everything went wrong in my life. When I’d stare at the sky in that wide open field; there were so many stars, too many to count.
We would hike for hours to a waterfall, and strip down to our bathing suits and jump in the frigid water. We would wander in creeks and collect all the sorts of creatures that his under rocks. We’d dry off on the bank, and eat PB&J sandwiches and trail mix. At night, The camp counselor would play his guitar, and we’d sing along and eat s’mores, and tell funny and scary stories to each other. Maps of the woods we explored were made, and we played tag in the dark, screaming and laughing in tandem with the curious nocturnal wildlife.
It was good.
@@gonkythegnk1046 I love going backpacking in various parts of the rockie mountains. i haven't gone alone yet and i know it's a bad idea but i would love to. when you're out there it's like nothing human matters anymore. every problem back home is meaningless while you're standing in the vastness of an open canyon or the pureness of a hidden forest, or the incredible power of a waterfall that will continue to flow and cutaway through the earth long after me and everyone i know are gone. if i were to die out there i wouldn't mind. what a place to spend your final moments.
ah yes i need a lil soft end of the world music during this global pandemic. stay safe, whoever is reading this.
Saw him in Raleigh on Saturday and he told us that this song was inspired by a huge storm that almost canceled his last concert in Raleigh a couple of years ago. He said that he had never experience the sensation of the clean warm southern rain and it soothed him. While he was in his hotel room, he was just "noodling" on his guitar and came up with the instrumental for this song. He played the track from that night and played with it before starting the song. BEST CONCERT EVER.
The soundtrack to me deliberately drowning myself because of all the love i hold in my heart
Whilst drowning I saw the true desires of my heart. The conundrum of life. My existence tries to pass me by, but when I look into your eyes, you’re the light amidst the strife. Dear wasteland baby.
There is not nearly enough recognition for this song and that saddens me. This is an art that's food for the soul.
This song is my ABSOLUTE favorite. Just how eloquently he puts it, it just seems like such an ethereal and lovely experience to truly love someone. Like to love someone until the end of the earth, THAT sort of bond. His lyrics are just so freaking poetic and perfect.
Hozier is the kind of person that i wouldn't mind if he drowns me down the nasty swamp as long as he sings throughout the process.
Platonic Siren Man
This hits different in 2020
Absolutely.
Ugh yeah felt- like mann it's just fucjjj
Yea..
MaYbEeE hEe PrEdiKteD KoViD-19 🤪🤪🤪😂😂😂
Spud 607 wtf
Just like my friend said, "this is going to be a spiritual experience. "
Just went to the concert last night and "spiritual experience" is the description I've had in my head all day today.
Just love the end when he said "That's it" and chuckle. How can anyone top that to finish an album? Genius.
If the world was to end, the background music has to be this song.
There is nothing like listening to Hozier in a whicker chair, eating blackberries on a full moon, closing your eyes and reciting lyrics, and studing all day and realizing I've pushed myself and need to take a break.
Hozier you will always be my voice of reason and relaxation - love from America but destined to live on the
Italian countryside
If you lie down on your side and close your eyes while listening to this song, you’ll feel someone gently cradling you, with their heartbeat on your shoulder blade and their hand tracing your arm and GOD how did you do it Hozier???
Hozier's music is the definition of deep and subtle beauty.
You’re one of the greatest musical poets out there right now... thank you god
2020 just ended, and the last thing i heard was hozier say “that’s it.” this man is magical i’m telling you
me too! timed it so that would happen haha
Listning to this Song in a bubble bath with the daylight reflecting through a small window decoration with small glass crystals is such a religiously experience i feel like im gonna cry
His album cover is a painting his mom made of him.
I know, It's amazing right? If I just saw this without previous knowledge that his mother painted this I would have thought it was a photograph
Wait what??? That's amazing I thought it was a photograph! Damn is his whole family talented?
@Cowlan we all did
Watch the recently released video “Behind the album cover”.
@@shaycornacorn his father is a jazz drummer, so art is in his DNA
March 1st, 2019: a day to remember
Always.
1958?
Edit: Nobody got the joke, I'm severely disappointed.
This tells a beautiful story of love where anything can happen and it wont matter as long as they’ll still have each other.
“and you gaze unafraid as they sob from the city ruins”
ugh ❤️
its like being whispered by some entity, luring you to his home on a rainy afternoon. Cold, damp, refreshing, dark. Being summoned in the middle of the dark woods either ita drizzling or after the rain. The smell of grass, leaves and wood after the rain. Thats it. Youre done.
Every song of him would fit perfectly for a very special moment in a movie, i wish he could participate on a movie soundtrack some day, it would be perfect!
He has already! Legend of Tarzan!
Whenever i hear him singing, i feel like my heart tries to crawl out of my chest and i always want to cry. But in a good way.
It's just so bittersweet.
I was driving through the Great Smoky Mountains when this came on. The sunrise, the clouds clinging to the valleys, and the solitude of being in a car by myself just driving on mountain roads pretty much alone at 8:00 in the morning all combined made the whole experience almost ethereal.
this song is the purest form of comfort i know of.
The "underwater" reverb of his voice is a genius match to the cover art.
The "that's it" *chuckle* at the end is so cute. So glad that was left in.
First time i listened to this I legit blacked out and woke up at the little "that's it" at the end with such a strong feeling of longing in my chest despite the fact none of the lyrics actually registered in my mind that I started crying so like yeah this guy's magic I think
I've been through the deaths of partners, friends, family, etc. I cried when my 6 year old said she wanted to hear this song. Like, full on bawling like a little boy, on the side of the road no less. This is beautiful. This is love. This is life.
Made me cry. Haven't known that gentle love in a long while.
A song about enduring love despite what's going on around, love the sound, very soothing
He sounds like he’s singing underwater. We love a naiad king ❤️
I'm gonna cry I've wanted this for almost 4 years
And I did :')
@@sathyasampathkumar8621 So did I!
When he says "That's it." I smile every time. Just perfect. Ugh, why aren't any of my friends fans. Now I'll have to roll solo to the concerts!
Ack! I STILL can't get over the quiet, "That's it" and the lil nervous laugh at the end there!!!!! Ahhhhh!!!!!!
I feel divinely favored after listening to this entire album. Like, I had to exist in this era only so that I could experience Hozier. And I am grateful. 🙏
Thank you Hozier.
that second chorus is so catchy
I just listened to your cover of Cherry Wine by Hozier and enjoyed it so much. You are so talented:)
j'ai découvert un artiste incroyable !
Même sans connaître l' anglais, la musique est universelle ....et la sienne est magique!!
J'adore!!!!
Merci
that little whisper at the end is just NGHHH
yes, i totally died a little bit inside. i fangirlly squeal every time i hear it
Imagine someone loving you like that...
I was drawing while listening through the album. When I got to this song, I stopped. I couldn’t bring myself to do anything but lay back and drink it in. It’s not the first time I’ve heard this song, but it brought me to tears inexplicably today. It’s beauty demands your attention, and it has mine.
This song feels like the look you give to your lover after having the first kiss
sometimes the end doesn't feel like a villain, but a hero to calm down poor overloaded souls
This song truly has been a savior for me, when I’m angry, sad, or in a funk where I don’t feel like myself, I always find my way back to this song and it puts me in a state of calm that is truly unexplainable. I feel like I’m floating in a sea of the emotion that I’m feeling, then while I listen I swim to the surface and I find myself again, in the calm of this song. And in the time that we are in, quarantine has made it so easy to feel stuck and isolated, but this song has helped me calm my nerves and
feel better about the world, thank you Hozier for creating this masterpiece
This song has a soul of its own and i just can't seem to get over How a song can be so human...she's beautiful !
Anyone else coming back to this in mid 2020? I thought this was comforting, then 2020 happened...now it's totally, all-encompassing comforting.
This song feels like a warm hug.
I'm in my room, crying, listening to this song thirty minutes before 2020 will finally be over. Oh man, was it a wasteland. But I have some great memories. It was a year that broke me, mentally and physically. But there were several moments that I felt strong, and I felt ok. And those moments in this year of horror were a feeling of relief I dont ever think that I could recreate. Goodbye 2020, thanks for the memories. Won't miss you.
I wrote the most devastating story to this song, but it’s really this one quote from it that gets me every time:
“I remember getting curious after his death and reading through the journal he kept. He planned on marrying me after our show, and proposing onstage,” she said, tears welling up in her eyes, “it’s how I said I wanted my future to go when we first met.”
I burst into tears whenever I listen to this idk why but it’s so good and means a lot to me
This song gives you peace, happiness and light-headedness. The quality very few songs possess and only a few people can make happen. It’s like sitting outside during autumn and observing things around you slowly pass by. The breeze blowing swiftly over your head, birds chirping and gorgeous clouds above you. It’s that feeling when you have no stress, no worries and are in a state of mental happiness. 🤍 Pure bliss. 🌻
Curled up in a ball in the middle of my bed just silently listening to this on repeat while it's storming outside.
It's so comforting and realistic with all the emotions in his voice.
I've tears in my eyes and I don't know what this feeling is... I feel like theres a hole in my chest..
This before this dropped I was expecting some rockish type flow 😂 I never expected this now I’m crying
Another song that helps people through the trials and tribulations of life. This song really gets me man, it's this kind of peace I can't find on my own. Thanks Hozier, for another legendary piece for the world
OMG, his little "That's it" at the end and then the quiet laughing afterwards melted my heart