Hozier - Butchered Tongue (Official Audio)
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- Опубліковано 16 сер 2023
- Official audio for “Butchered Tongue” by Hozier
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Lyrics
As a child it was
The place names singing
at me as the first thing
How the mouth
Must be employed
In every corner of itself
To say
“Apalachicola”, or “Hushpuckena”
Like “Gweebarra”; a promise
Softly sung of somewhere else
And as a young man
Blessed to pass so many road signs
And have my foreign ear
Made fresh again
On each unlikely sound
But feel at home
Hearing a music
That few still understand
A butchered tongue still
Singing here above the ground
The ears were chopped
from young men
If the pitch-cap didn’t kill them
They are buried
Without scalp
In the shattered bedrock of our home
You may never know your fortune
Until the distance has been shown between
What is lost forever
And what can still be known
So far from home
To have a stranger call you ‘darling’
And have your guarded heart
Be lifted like a child up by the hand
In some town that just means
‘Home’ to them
With no translator left to sound
A butchered tongue
Still singing here above the ground
#Hozier #ButcheredTongue #UnrealUnearth
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for anyone wondering, “pitch-cap” was a torture method that the British used on the Irish during the 1798 Rebellion; typically paper caps would be dipped in tar (pitch) and would be placed on their heads and set on fire, very gruesome and devastating 😢
while the song can represent that forgotten languages of any colonized country, it definitely has a strong link to how the Irish language was forbidden and was stripped from us 😭
thank you so much for sharing this information :(
Oh wow. Thank you for this explanation. I can just imagine my poor Irish ancestors getting the pitch caps, 😢. Total devastation.
Wikipedia says: "Pitchcapping is a form of torture which involves pouring hot pitch or tar (mainly used at the time for water-proofing seams in the sides of ships and boats) into a conical paper cap and forcing it onto an individual's head, which is then allowed to cool before being rapidly removed. Typically, victims of pitchcapping suffer loss of skin and tissue around their head"
Either way, it's gruesome
@@SaphiraTessa oh lord! 😨
@@thechicantique4567felt
This song awakens something in me everytime I hear it
For him to speak of violence so softly, as if the rage of being wronged has passed, and all that remains is bitter heartbreak. As a native Hozier sings about things that I wish the world could scream about. Butchered Tongue isn't my favorite song because it hurts my heart to listen to, but it is an important song because it speaks, even if it's faint, for me.
i know that this is about irish gaelic, but it really encapsulates how i feel about scottish gaelic as a scottish person. my school didnt even mention that gaelic existed until i was 15, and i have to learn from duolingo. i live in edinburgh, and we werent taught our own fucking language.
Sorry, but are you talking about Gaeilge?
@@stupidusernames i was talking about Gàidhlig, the scottish language that often gets confused with Gaeilge due to being both called Gaelic in English (albeit being pronounced differently)
@Apollo_G OHH RIGHT. Sorry 😭 Usually people who aren't from Ireland, and aren't familar with the language will claim that Irish/Gaeilge is gaelic. I can confirm that is not the case as gaelic is a sport. Again, very sorry😭
why is it so easy for you to communicate with our souls, sir😭🫶🏻
This. We’re not worthy. 🙈🫶🏻💕🖤✨🐝
Pain is both Universal and Equal Parts Opportunity + Anyone Can Get Some
He is an abstract psychopomp a conductor of souls 💙
I know wtf this is invasive in a positive way😂😂
this song broke into my house, slapped the shit out of me, and told me to brush up on my irish and i couldn't be more thankful
I remember going to see the last old-growth white pine in Michigan as a little kid and having the crushing realization that the whole state used to be like that little grove; covered lake to far-stretched lake with a forest utterly strange to me and full of peoples who'd lived here for thousands of years and knew it like I never would. This song reminds me how that knowledge felt, sinking in for the first time and colouring over how I understood the place I'd only ever known as "home".
Landback. and all power to all the people.
as an algerian amazigh woman, who’s ancestors had to fight against the french to preserve our lives, culture and language, and then had to fight against our own people and presidents who wanted to strips us of own separate identity and arabize us forcefully, this song is so personal to me.
Tamazight, our native language, is almost a dead language and what’s left of it are the dialects that we, the different tribes, speak. most of the current algerian population isn’t able to speak it 💔
This song is my favourite of the album, if not of Hozier's entire discography. Being from a country where our native language suffered a fate similar to that of Gaelic, this song really resonates. Thinking that it was somewhat shameful to speak my language and express my culture when I was a child and seeing a shift now, where people my age slowly understand that it, in fact, isn't...
"A butchered tongue still singin' here above the ground" line made me burst into tears.
Hello there Kate nice meeting you here
I don`t know where are you from but I feel you. Just the same for me and language of my people
my entire body felt this comment
same here, sending much love
as a south african who's slowly losing their ability to speak and understand their mother tongue, this hit hard. beautifly as always, hozier is a brilliant writer and an astonishing singer, much love from South Africa
This song left me bawling. All the diaspora feelings I don’t think of most of my days came flooding back. I don’t know either side of my family’s original tongues. I’m afraid to try, because I know I’d butcher them, and I feel ashamed. But this song inspires me to try learning them regardless, and appreciate that I even still have this chance. Maybe I won’t be able to learn them well, or learn the dialects that my great grandparents actually spoke, but when all is said and done it’s still a piece of who they were and what they cared for closer, muttered instead of ignored in shame. With all my sincerity, thank you for the power of your songs. ❤
ok no so im irish but i grew up in the north so i didnt learn any irish in school and this is how it feels when youre familiar with some words/broken phrases and i cant
Yeah it definitely hits different for us northerners. My mam knows a man who got interned without trial in the 1970s simply because he went to Irish lessons and that was enough of a threat apparently 😢 well...sending you grá
I'm an American with several ancestors who were forced to leave the west of Ireland during the famine. I have no idea if they personally spoke Irish when they left, but Irish was still widely spoken in their area at the time. I recently started learning Irish to reconnect with that heritage and this song suddenly hits so much harder. "You may never know your fortune until the distance has been shown between what is lost forever and what can still be known." I feel so grateful for the folks from Ireland who are specifically teaching classes for us Americans to help keep the language alive.
Looking through this comment section really shows the power of this song. It's about Ireland but it calls on the empathy of every culture that has suffered colonization and the descendants of those cultures. Our pain and our liberation is intertwined through shared experience across generations. Thank you to Hozier and to everyone here for making me feel less alone in the struggle to stay connected with the butchered tongue of my ancestors.
As an Irish-speaker, this touches me deeply. Go raibh maith agat, Aindrias. Labhair tú le m'anam.
MIIElEllaNi
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😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
As a child it was
The place names singin'
At me as the first thing
How the mouth
Must be employed
In every corner of itself
To say
"Appalacicola " or "Hushpukena"
Like "Gweebarra"
A promise softly sang of somewhere else
And as a young man
Blessed to pass so many road signs
And have my foreign ear
Made fresh again
On each unlikely sound
But feel at home
Hearin' a music
That few still understand
A butchered tongue still
Singin' here above the ground
The ears were chopped
From young men
If the pitch cap didn't kill them
They are buried without scalp
In the shattered bedrock of our home
You may never know your fortune
Until the distance has been shown
Between what is lost forever
And what can still be known
So far from home
To have a stranger call you "darling"
And have your guarded heart
Be lifted like a child up by the hand
In some town that just means
'Home' to them
With no translator left to sound
A butchered tongue
Still singin' here above the ground
Thanks very much for the lyrics 😊😊
THANK YOU
andrew, i can't imagine the grief that drove you to write such unspeakably beautiful poetry. i unfortunately can't call myself a speaker or a listener of your tongue, but i hope you know that you and all you've lost are loved, and mourned, and there is no word i know that's strong enough to describe how grateful i am that you sing on.
The 1798 Rebellion is part of the Irish history curriculum now [at least in some textbooks] but this song has really made it all the more devastating. So much has been done to stamp out the native languages and, by extension, the cultures and stories of people all over the world, including Irish, and having this woven into a beautifully heartwrenching song is something that I'm still recovering from.
As Pádraig Pearse said: "tír gan teanga, tír gan anam" ["a land without a language is a land without a soul"]
I'm speechless. This is so stunning. It's so soft and meets the heart with such deepness you would not think to find such gentleness in this song. Like a lullaby that encaptures so much more than meets the eye, only the soul can sing and know the meaning because even though the mind can register and the heart, it breaks, the soul sings on forever, seeming like the winter's cold embrace.
Beautiful ✨🖤
I was born and raised in Belarus. Sometimes I think that belarusian and irish culture are simiral in a lot of ways, and right now the language of my country is dying due to the great history of repression and language bans. Thank you for this song. It actually means a lot, especially when right now I'm in Belarus trying to speak belarusian just not to forget it, when everyone else is speaking Russian except for my two friends
Жыве Беларусь! У вас прекрасна мова, нехай вдастья відродити її! Мені дуже шкода, що в неї така непроста історія, але вірю, що завдяки таким людям, як ви, вона знов процвітатиме!
Support from Ukraine ❤
Listening to this album, I have to force myself not to write down a dozen lines from each song in my collection of quotes. To have such mastery of language truly is a deeply admirable thing.
Irish really is one of the most beautiful languages. I hope we never let it die.
I am absolutely inconsolable about this song.
While there are a lot of elements/ central themes of Irish colonization and the preservation of Irish language and inherently history/ culture with it, as a Person of Color, I was so deeply moved. It is a song of beautiful mourning, of sorrow in the blood and scars that run through the dying of or absolute death of a language. However, it is also a celebration and expression of admiration and awe over the strength and perseverance of language and those who wield it. Every verb, noun, accent, rolling of the tongue. Every simple sound, letter, article. All of it is an act of defiance of the voice to the oppressor. It is a fibre of being healing the deep wounds inflicted by the colonizer. Every utterance screams “We are here and we are moving onward even while still bleeding.” Even then, Hozier still captivated the grief that comes with the fact that…not all cultures have that. Not every community has the ability to learn their languages. Some are gone entirely. Some stopped being passed down for the sake of survival and assimilation. The anguish that comes with a bloody tongue, one that cannot speak what it was born to utter, to scream to sing…it’s a feeling difficult to put into words. To have this song in the Circle of Violence not only brings to light the physical violence against the Irish in their colonization, but the invisible consequences of such brutality on the colonized. The murders and scarring didn’t stop at flesh. Even some languages that survived didn’t escape without scars and wounds, infused with the languages of their colonizer (ex- Tagalog having pieces of Spanish in it). This was a love letter and kiss of praise yet also a funeral dirge to those wounded by colonization, and I have never sobbed so hard over a song before. It stirred such deep grief in me that I cannot explain.
(original post www.tumblr.com/mochishortstack/726007493239701504/not-a-transformers-post-but-hozier-released-his?source=share)
as a person of color, thank you for expressing this feeling so eloquently ❤ it’s one i and millions and of others share.
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I felt this so so much as a maori person, our language being outlawed and still suffering the effects of that today is so devastating ☹️
I am none of these ...yet your words pierce my soul and I value greatly the beauty and eloquence in which you describe the horrors of the loss you and others have experienced. I value what you've taught me , just through this gorgeous lyric and song. What I've learned and appreciated in just these few minites😢💝
Well said. Thank you.
Being in frequent partnership with Indigenous peers and organizations, I'm telling you, this hits very close to home.
There are not many songs that I can honestly say makes me cry on the first listen and continues giving me chills subsequently, but this is one of them.
I'm from Indonesia: half Chinese-Indonesian and half another obscure ethnic minority from eastern Indonesia. While I consider "Indonesian" my current mother tongue, the truth is that both sides of my family lost our respective native languages due to systematic violence toward and subjugation of the people both sides of my ancestors were part of.
Earlier this year I had the privilege of visiting the border island where my maternal grandparents were born near Timor. I cannot describe the feeling other than emotional overwhelm. I laid flowers on my great grandparents' grave and communed with people who welcomed me as a long lost relative-and in that sense I knew I was "home" in a sense of the word I had never experienced before. At the same time, there is also a fuller dimension of "home" in that place that I will never experience firsthand as a diasporic daughter who has built her life thousands of kilometres elsewhere and will probably never be able to learn enough of the language to carry a conversation. I get misty recalling what that visit meant to me and live every day longing to come back.
I could never, and will not pretend to fathom what the Irish endured during a horriffic English colonisation whose damage includes a near annihilation of the Irish Gaelic language. But as someone living in perpetual grief of the languages and cultural identities my ancestors lost, I send my utmost solidarity to the people of Ireland, and other people around the world who have experienced a similar loss. From the bottom of my heart, thank you Hozier for this song.
Wow this is so beautiful I have tears in my eyes. I'm so sorry for what your family has been through.The destruction of culture and language is a terrible thing. I believe that all colonised peoples have a connection over this, because it is a feeling and a situation like no other. We carry that generational trauma with us, but we also carry our ancestors' love, their strength, their beauty within us. Solidarity with you from Ireland, I'm sending love ❤
Well said, thank you for your empathy and understanding. The populations of the world carry the scars of colonisation and repression through intergenerational trauma, the colonisers are the last ones to look at the consequences of their actions. World peace will be based on democracy and collaborative autonomy in a world sufficiently Well regulated to inhibit greedy autocracy in the inevitable competition for natural resources.
Baltus Bergman, Pappie... eks bevok, jou gat.. Mammie is oorlede en Netherland word beskuldig van terroristlme. My kinders, Nico almal ons vamilie is aangeval en word geforseer met lelike afskuwelike dade. Al jul kinders word gemartel. Ik het alleen baklei om almal te zoeken, en ouma Ellie syn ook met my in gees. Hulle soeken een sleutel. Help my asb ik en Nico vra eg mooi, kom huis toe, ik het niet meer tyd oor om te lewe. We bly nu in huis van Johnny Phillipus Denemy, Andrew charles loots heb hulp gegee, maar andere mense, maak alle kinders werk as prostitute, house of horror. Dese mense is deel van die cirlce wat nou bekend is as mf rotary network. Ek probeer almal help maar niet meer alleen. Toe jy owerhede is,send mamma aan my, lekke jou bitch nou gaan jy sien hoe suffer jy noudat jou pa nie meer hier is om jou te help nie. Mamma het al haar geld gebruik of weg gesteek en my beskuldig dat ik alles gesteel het. Mamma hulle het my gelos alleen op straat. Tannie Sera het is saam om oorlog te maak in land en het Brandon verkoop. Sy is deel van human trafficking. Asb dis nu tyd, om almal terug te bring, we nodig julle. Asb
I will never recover from this, Hozier, do you hear me?? NEVER
I know this song is about the English abusing, torturing, and trying to eliminate Irish culture as a whole, but as an American, it also made me think of what Americans did to the Native Americans - I feel many more than just the Irish will understand the impact of this song.
VIOLENCE (against people, first circle). Also a feeling of relief for hozier about the preservation of Irish which is a sentimental connection with Nation I deeply respect.
This is my favorite song in the whole album. I know it’s about Irish colonization, but I could relate to this a lot as a Jew descended from Holocaust survivors.
"You may never know your fortune
Until the distance has been shown
Between what is lost forever
And what can still be known"
These four lines bridged that distance for me. I had nothing but the loss and the grief and the anger, but worse than the absence of a thing. It was a living and a dead thing. But my eyes were so fixed on searching the past that I did not realize that the future holds the past and there was hope to be had. I can go a long way on that, even out past the breakers.
Thank you. I cheated and read the lyrics early. This perception shift changed everything.
Hello there Terra nice meeting you here
I feel that those who like this song (and also "eat your young") would probably enjoy the book "Babel" by R F Kuang
It's only been 2 months but it feels like 15 years so far from home to have a stranger call you DARLING ✨💔🌹
I think id literally die if you made a song with lilting. Much love for Ireland and you, Andrew! ❤
So far from home
To have a stranger call you darling
And have your guarded heart
Be lifted like a child up by the hand
In some town that just means
'Home' to them
With no translator left to sound
A butchered tongue
Still singing here above the ground...
I can, It is ridiculous I've been sobbing for an hour now, it is not an album this is a musical treasure, gem after gem each song speaks to me😢
Hello there Nadia nice meeting you here
As an Irish American who lived in Dinétah (the Navajo Nation), this song means more to me than I can say. Thank you Andrew ❤
This is the first time I listen to this song. It made me cry. What a songwriter! What a poet 💘
I am ukrainian and our mother tongue was seen as the language for "grannies and villagers" once. It seemed as if it was dying. This was understandable since we were colonized by russian empire years ago and there were a bunch of laws on banning it. We totally understand the pain of the whole culture and language being destroyed and relate. The war has brought many changes, more people aren't ashamed of our language now but the price is terrifying. Irish language is beautiful and the story behind the song is heartbreaking. Love for Ireland and Irish language from Ukraine❤❤❤🇮🇪
Glory to Ukraine, the links between Ireland a neutral country who have been where you are going , but can't send you arms , and can only provide a safe home to your refugees while you teach the world how to fight off a greedy formidable colonising force with NO moral code.
The Irish had to shed intergenerational blood and will always have scars, but largely fought off the British who still interfere needlessly in the affairs of Ireland eg Brexit - but you will defeat Russia with the backing of the US and EU like Ireland did. God bless Ukraine and Zalensky.
@@classactsexpertiseandinspi4815 thank you! The courage of the people of Ireland is immense and should be respected. The fact that so many people of several generations - talanted, brave and full of hopes - had to die in a fight for freedom is heartbreaking. Glory to the heroes! Both Irish and Ukrainian people deserve to live on our own land in peace and freedom happily.
As a language lover with a special connection to the Irish language, this song actually murders me from the inside thanks
I came here because of his speech about humanity. and i am in love with his voice, beautiful song. Keep it up!
Powerful and melancholic. A sober, beautiful, historical tribute to Ireland’s truth.
I did not see this coming Hozier! So Grateful for this track.
Grateful to be Irish🍀
Hello there Sheila nice meeting you here
Sheilla.. nonnatjie se kind.
Where is Thandeka and Kelly.
16 Wolmaran str.
Suzette, Pa,Ma Kleinbaai Nico is almal weg.. ❤
Mar Gaeilgeoir ó 5 agus 10 mbliana ag caint ár teanga tá mé comh bródúil chun mo teanga a cloisteáil ó guth comh tábhachtach do daoine Éirinnach. Thanks Hozier for reminding me just how beautiful our native language is :)
Translation: As an Irish speaker since 5 and 10 years of speaking our language i am so proud to hear my tongue spoken by such an important voice for the irish people …
Thuigim an comment seo agus is leor sin cruthúnais go maireann an teanga ar aghaidh ❤
Thank you for this. This hits so close to home here in Canada, too, and I'm sure means a lot to everyone who's people have suffered the loss of so much of their culture because of colonization.
This has to be one of my favorites of him, not only of the album.
I saw a comment saying this feels like a lullaby, and it really does. I can completely picture myself singing this to quiet my children someday ❤
pretty sure this is about colonialism x
A chillingly violent and heartbreaking lullaby, but you do you!
Though as someone who has actually lost my ancestral languages through generations of systemic violence... if I hypothetically had young children, I guess I could sing this to them (replacing the Gaelic words with ones from my own language) and defer conversations about the song's real meaning to an age where they're old enough to learn the evils of a language annihilating colonial rule and why it matters.
Such a devastating song..somehow I always felt close to the irish culture and people, part of it is because of their complicated and tragic history. I come from people that have been repressed in my own country as well and can feel this pain with every cell of my body..
As a child it was
The place names singing
at me as the first thing
How the mouth
Must be employed
In every corner of itself
To say
"Apalachicola", or "Hushpuckena" Like "Gweebarra"; a promise
Softly sung of somewhere else
And as a young man
Blessed to pass so many road signs
And have my foreign ear
Made fresh again
On each unlikely sound
But feel at home
Hearing a music
That few still understand
A butchered tongue still
Singing here above the ground
The ears were chopped
from young men
If the pitch-cap didn't kill them
They are buried
Without scalp
In the shattered bedrock of our home
You may never know your fortune
Until the distance has been shown between
What is lost forever
And what can still be known
So far from home
To have a stranger call you 'darling' And have your guarded heart
Be lifted like a child up by the hand
In some town that just means
'Home' to them
With no translator left to sound
A butchered tongue
Still singing here above the ground
This is one of the best song I've ever heard ❤️ when I listened to it first time at the midnight I started crying 😭
Thanks for talking about an unknown language and culture (I am Gallic but we share a similar story) Hozier, this was beautiful!
Oh. I see. A song of who's message will seep between generations
This has to be one of the most moving songs on the album, definitely my favorite of him I've heard so far, and I almost exclusively listen to his music. I never cry to music unless it reminds me of something that happened to me personally, but the lyrics alone moved me to tears on four separate occasions and I've almost sobbed a couple of times now. Lovely lyrics, lovely voice. This album is pure art ❤
As a Brazilian who had my country colonized and been stripped of everything, I can relate.
Hello there Tati nice meeting you here
is the soil flirting with me?
Hearing this song and understanding the pain behind it only makes me even more supportive of movements for the independence of nations/regions like N. Ireland, Wales, and Scotland from my own country, England 😢
this song just hits so painfully well. i often think about how i don't know any irish, and that the only irish my papa knows are catholic prayers- which feels bitterly ironic. i mourn our family losing our language a lot. all we have are our irish names, but even those are anglicised in spelling.
this sounds almost like a prayer
Ooooof this song 😭😭😭
Reminds me of all the reasons why I'm not able to speak Irish now, my grandfather was fluent
This tune has grown on me. The album as a whole deserves every award known to mankind and then some.
I am in the fortunate position to not have my parents mother tounge and culture be lost. They moved from mexico to the US along time ago, but they didnt really try to teach my siblings or I Spanish. Reading all these comments about having their languages be destroyed, it breaka my heart. I think I'm going to start practicing my Spanish, so one day, i can pass it on to my children (if the world hasn't ended, that is)
This is such a sad song 😢 but one that needed to be written and heard so people can understand the loss -and the triumph in the revival
This song hit HARD😢😢😢
Pure beauty!
The humming just 🔪❤️🩸 but in the most 🌺✨🎇 way I just ☠️
I could hear my heart breaking. 😢
The moment i heard the first melody my heart sunk n i had to stop what i was doing. Hozier is eternal, forever immortal stuck in a mortals body. Loving so hard and deep that there is nothing like it. He is one of a kind and we are just baring whitness
All of the songs in album is ready to tear my soul apart, but this takes it to a whole new level, touching the struggles of my ancestors. As ukrainian myself, who was raised to believe my culture and, especially, my language was a second sort things. And aside of events that occur past 9 years, not to mention the centuries of oppression, older I get, them more grows my understanding that some things is meant for you to cling closer for yourself until it's taken away. Before my mother language not just a faint sound from my ancestors
Awesome artist and voice, his work has changed my view and opinion.. powerful writing
So beautiful your voice young Sir
This one hurts... some of these songs are forcing me to just go ahead and deal with those feelings I have been desperately ignoring feeling. Guess there's no choice... It's healing at warped speed...wow. This record is phenomenal as are you. Perfect. ❤
Hello there nice meeting you here
i’m mixed, white & puerto rican and most of my life i haven’t paid attention to my puerto rican side, as my dads side (the puerto rican side) isn’t big on culture. But as i’ve gotten older i’ve wanted to connect with the side of myself and embrace it! and listening to this song makes me genuinely so emotional because i have ancestors who suffered the horrific experiences of colonization, while i pass as white and have never experienced such things and yet they still show in me, in my skin during the summer when i become several shades darker, or in my curly hair and it is then i feel connected to them, and with the privilege i have now and the hardships i may face due to my heritage i promise to learn and love my culture with my whole heart. (if anyone has any good recommendations to learn please share 🙏🏼)
this one brought tears to my eyes
This is the first song I listen and I´m already speechless.
So far from home
To have a stranger call you ‘darling’
And have your guarded heart
Be lifted like a child up by the hand
Wow, this song is so personal to me. Stunningly perfect 🥺🥺🥺
Hello there Leili nice meeting you here
Brilliant song writing and music
this was the first song i listened to, and every single one made me cry. this album is such a wonder, it's so beautifully done.
No music touched my soul so deeply... I have no words for this man but ❤❤❤.
i forever feel the pain of not being able to speak my family's native language due to colonization and fear of genocide. Due to it being an indigenous language its hard to try to learn it or connect to it since I don't know anyone near me who speaks it.
OMD! HOW?! This is sooo beautiful! In tears
_it was so delicate... God, this is beautiful_
Wow... just wow... its so heartbreaking and beautiful, as many songs in this album
You've given us a masterpiece, another wonderful album. Thank you... 🤍
Don't cry for me Argentina, just cry for the land down under.
Your crystal clear magical voice and amazing talent makes me cry.It' s beautiful, Thank you❤👏👏👏👏
Hello there Irina nice meeting you here
@@justiceharrison5142 Hello likewise
@@irinavilian how are you doing today?
@@justiceharrison5142 Thank you.Enjoy Hozier' s new songs.I hope you are too
@@irinavilian you welcome, I enjoy it. Where are you from? If I may ask
his voice is so soft but powerful
Beautiful song. Wish it was longer !
😍 Joy is not superficial, life feels this music..
Genuinely crying, happy tears 🖤
this song is my favourite from his new album. It has me in a complete trance wow.
Be loving this rn
Honestly, out of the whole album - this is the one for me ❤ I adore it
Thanks, Andrew 😊 It is so thoughtful, provoking, respectful and soothing, all in one ❤
This gave me goosebumps and my eyes welled. Damn.
Beautiful ❤
All I can ever say is thank you for this song. This is everything to me. Just finished the album and it is just... perfection from start to finish. Thank you thank you thank you.
Hello there Payton nice meeting you here
While the song is fairly explicitly about language, I think it be more generally about the, albeit bittersweet, feeling of joy and accomplishment of you and people like you being alive and persisting despite being in a world with people who would sooner wish you dead than treat you like a person
Being part of an underserved group and looking back at how they were treated, but remembering that some of them did make it and that's why you're here. Thats how I relate to it at least.
Because I am not Irish or from a colonized culture
But i am very gay lol.
Beautiful
this is gorgeous 💔
Thank you Hozier.
❤🩹 beautiful!!!! 🥲 God, those lyricsssss!!!!
i love this💖
Soo beautiful ❤❤
this so good i just discovered you a couple of months ago and i love your music so much❤❤
The lyrics. How you emote them. Again … how deep is your well? How timeless is your soul? (Aside: After listening to a couple of tracks, I had to search further. It just felt like The Blacklist would be a phenomenal place to demonstrate the power of your vibe - Angel of Small Death was placed brilliantly. I’m rambling. Apologies. To your gift … Cheers! ☕️🍻🍸🥃🖤🤘✌️🎉
Hello there Bev nice meeting you here
beautiful 🤍