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averyroundtoad · 3 months

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Must I have a career? Is it not enough to scroll Pinterest while listening to Hozier?

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2bearsinatrenchcoat · 3 months

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“Don’t you ever tame your demon, but always keep ‘em on a leash”

HELLO??? THIS HAS TO BE ABOUT THEM HOZIER PLS CONFIRM

#good omens #ineffable husbands #ineffable idiots #gomens #crowley #aziraphale #aziracrow #hozier #arsonists lullaby

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drarrily-we-row-along · 1 year

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Arsonist's Lullaby

As you may have guessed, this one is inspired by "Arsonist's Lullaby" by Hosier. cw: arson (as you might have deduced, no one is hurt and they're burning their own property)

Draco was doing that thing with his hands again. The thing Harry had noticed first in 8th year and then hadn't stopped being able to notice in the past five years since.

It's what had drawn him to Draco in the first place, like a moth to flame (pun very much intended). There was something completely mesmerizing about watching him snap his fingers and then cradle the blue flames in his palm absentmindedly while he talked, or read a book, or performed any number of mindless tasks. It was sexy as fuck.

"You're staring again," Draco murmured, not raising his eyes from his book as the fire danced across his knuckles.

Harry hummed, "You're doing the fire again."

"You're as obsessed with fire as I am," he said, mouth curling at the corner.

"Mostly obsessed with you," Harry replied and Draco laughed and finally looked up for his book.

He stared at Harry for a moment, the fire winding its way through his fingers the way some people rolled coins along their knuckles. "You know," Draco said, voice a hint too casual and Harry internally perked up at what was sure to be a fantastic confession, "I thought it would end."

"What would?" Harry asked after a moment when it was clear that Draco wasn't going to go on without a bit of prompting.

His silver eyes latched onto Harry and his head tilted as he looked at him, like he was trying to parse something out. "The desire to light things on fire," he said and something hot flared in the pit of Harry's stomach.

"Tell me more," Harry said softly, voice low and seductive in a way that it normally wasn't outside of their bedroom.

Draco's pupils dilated sharply, "when I was a child," he said, the fire burning brighter in his hand for a moment, "I would sit for hours and stare at the flames in the manor's giant fire place. My parents couldn't understand it, they'd find me just sitting there, doing nothing but watching, like I was transfixed."

And frankly, Harry could understand that; he could watch Draco hold fire all day.

"When she caught me, Auntie Bella would say, 'don't ever tame your demons, Draco,' then she'd wink and tell me, 'but always keep them on a leash.'"

"What did that mean?"

Draco gave him a little smile, eyes flashing, "she could sense the bit of chaos, the desire for destruction, I think."

Harry hummed, "What did you want to destroy?"

"Oh, it changes," he replied easily. "When I was sixteen, the last time she said those words to me, I wanted to burn the entire world to the ground."

A shiver raced up Harry's spine, he remembered feeling the same way at sixteen. "And now?" he asked.

"I always thought it would go away," Draco said, "after I fell in love, after I had given the fire within me permission to consume someone the way I've consumed you."

Harry made a soft noise, low in his throat in agreement.

"The way I've let myself be consumed," he added. "But there's still this desire to burn down the past, to start fresh."

He nodded slowly, "that makes sense, actually."

"What if-" Draco started before snapping his jaw shut and clenching his fist around the fire to put it out.

"What if..." Harry prompted, moving to straddle Draco's hips, looking down at his lovely face.

Draco swallowed and rested his head against the back of the sofa, staring up at him. "What if we did start over? What if we moved to the states, or moved to some muggle city? What if-"

"Yes," Harry said, leaning in and pressing a kiss to Draco's lips, fingers skimming up his neck. "Godric, yes," he said, living in the world as the chosen one had only gotten harder since defeating Voldemort.

"What if I burned down the Manor first?" he whispered.

He felt his eyebrows hit his hair line, "What?"

Draco shrugged nonchalantly, but Harry could see the tension in his jaw, the fear of being too much. "Just," he sighed, "no one lives there. It's full of dark, cursed magic and even darker, more cursed memories." He blinked up at Harry, "What if I burned it first?"

He stared at him for a long moment, just searching his face, and finding only earnest desire there. "Alright," he said finally.

"Yeah?" Draco asked.

Harry nodded and leaned in to kiss him again, Draco's palms skimmed up his back and sides, touching him reverently.

"Pack for us?" he asked when he pulled back.

"Everything?"

Draco shrugged, "not furniture."

He closed his eyes and gathered his magic for a moment, letting it pool in his gut before holding out a hand and snapping. The contents of the flat organized themselves into boxes, shrinking down until everything fit into a tote that they could easily put into the back of the beat up old Subaru that Harry had purchased and refit with magic.

"Fucking hot," Draco said, pulling his face down and kissing him soundly.

Harry let himself get swept up in the moment, lost himself in the fire of Draco's kiss, let himself be consumed as Draco's fingers slipped under his shirt, nails raking up his back.

Far too soon in Harry's opinion, Draco was pulling back, flushed and panting. "Drive us as close as we can get to the Manor?" he asked, "then I'll get us through the wards?"

He nodded and stood, tugging Draco up behind him and out the door. The Subaru brought them faithfully through the night to the Manor and Harry parked just on the other side of the wards.

They climbed out of the car and Draco reached for Harry's hand, his cloak billowing dramatically behind him. Harry took it and they were being moved through time and space to a hill where they could see the whole of the Malfoy estate, the Manor centered in front of them.

There was fire flickering in and out of the hand that wasn't clasping Harry's and he watched the other man carefully. "Are you sure about this? You don't have to-"

"No, I know," Draco said. "And there's a part of me that doesn't want to. I loved this home when I was young."

"We could-"

"But it feels all wrong now," he said, shaking his head. "Can't you feel it?" he asked without looking at Harry, "the way that the darkness seeps from this place, it's killing everything around it," he added, pointing to the forest and the meadows, even the yard was brown and dead.

Draco shook his head, "For a little while, it felt like all I had was this fire burning within me, ready to scorch the earth, to wipe out that maniac and everything he stood for. I just feel like there's something more for me out there."

He slid his fingers through Draco's, holding the hand that wasn't currently holding fire. "There is," he promised, raising Draco's knuckles to his lips.

"I don't think that you can tame your demons," he said softly like he wasn't talking to Harry at all. "And I don't think you can keep them on a leash, either," he added. "I think the only thing to do is to destroy them entirely."

Without another word, he released Harry's hand and held up both of his, letting balls of flames build in his palms before hurling them down toward the Manor. As soon as those were sent on their way, he started on two more, then two more, and so on until the entire building was ablaze, flames leaping dozens of feet in the air.

He threw one last ball of fire, then collapsed. Harry dropped with him, reaching out for him and supporting him as they watched the representation of his old life, of everything evil, burn.

What could have been minutes or hours later, they heard the sound of distant sirens and the first few firefighters apparated in, wands blowing streams of Aguamentis at the raging fire.

"Time to go," Draco said, squeezing Harry's hand and apparating directly into the car.

"Where are we headed?" Harry asked, starting the car and punching the button that turned it invisible.

Draco hummed, turning his head and staring at Harry with a thoroughly blissed out, content expression on his face.

He leaned across the center console and kissed him, "You're so," he shook his head and kissed him again, "fucking amazing."

Humming, Draco kissed him back before redirecting his attention to the open sky, "the world's ours. Wherever you want to go," he shrugged, "we're free."

And it never really mattered where they went, there were always plenty of things to find joy in if they were together.

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Read more of my fics inspired by songs

#drarry #arsonists lullaby #what a vibe #hozier is my jam #a little 'be gay and do crimes' feeling #but also just burn down the past that you had no control over and start fresh #maybe a little darker that i usually write- just so you've got a warning #love #running away together #established relationships #ewe #maybe a little morally greyish?

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onceuponaweirdo · 6 months

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I long for a day Hozier and Florence sing together...

#hozier #florence and the machine #florence welch #sky full of song #arsonists lullaby #arsonists lullabye #sirens #and gods #Spotify

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character-estudio · 6 months

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hozier said keep your demons on a leash and aziraphale took that seriously

#i’m so sorry if someone has already made this joke #good omens #hozier #aziraphale #aziracrow #arsonists lullaby #ineffable husbands #crowley #song #music

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unreal-unearthing · 7 months

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To celebrate one full month of Unreal Unearth I want to highlight some songs of his that I love and are highly underrated! Mostly songs that didn’t make it into full albums.

In no particular order:

1. NFWMB - Nina Cried Power EP

2. arsonists lullaby - From Eden EP

3. in the woods somewhere - self-titled expanded edition

4. swan upon leda

From those first three you can see I like a song with a dark, kinda spooky vibe, (add these to you fall vibes/spooky/Halloween playlists IMMEDIATELY) and swan upon Leda I think is a really good example of hozier’s ability to mix a really gorgeous sound with an important political message about gender and sexuality.

#hozier #unreal unearth #nfwmb #Nina cried power ep #arsonists lullaby #from Eden ep #in the woods somewhere #hozier expanded edition #swan upon Leda

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madsblabs · 5 months

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quite cathartic to drink cider in the rain listening to Hozier after a hellish day

#madsblabs #hozier #arsonists lullaby

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ihavea-natural-curiosity · 5 months

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so nice of hozier to write a song for zuko (arsonists lullaby)

#“all you have is your fire and the place you need to reach #BRO #like that fits his entire storyline #“when i was 16 my senses fooled me thought gasoline was on my clothes #LIKE HELLO??#if that ain’t his relapse idk what is #zuko #arsonists lullaby #hozier

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mikeywayat2005warpedtour · 4 months

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#sad girl music #mitski #jeff buckley #hallelujah jeff Buckley #i was born hungry #hozier #take me to church #dinner and diatribes #arsonists lullaby #pomegranate

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emilynightshade89 · 1 year

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Willem Dafoe Characters as Hozier songs:

Elias Grodin ~ Angel of Small Death (& Codeine Scene) / As It Was

John Letour ~ To Be Alone / Sedated

Alan Ward ~ Nina Cried Power

Rick Masters ~ Arsonist's Lullaby

Vincent Van Gogh ~ Sunlight

Vance ~ No Plan

Leonhard Seppala ~ Work Song

Bobby Peru ~ It Will Come Back

Edits made by me: Please Do NOT REPOST

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radchaaipopsongs · 6 months

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I hallucinated when I was young Joyful words and painful sounds You could not decide The people would be my end

I would sit in stillness Watching a fire It was strong I could not stop

The fire is all And the impossible destination Your ill gods cannot be domesticated But tie them up

I hallucinated at the cusp of adulthood Mistakenly doused in accelerant This thing was my lord The smell was mine

I thought it stopped when I was grown When I knelt for the first time But stillness relies On destruction

The fire is all And the impossible destination Your ill gods cannot be domesticated But tie them up

#radch pop songs #imperial radch #arsonists lullaby #hozier

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harestigm · 1 year

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Hozier's music breathes life into my lungs and makes me want to live again

#hozier #he also makes me want to draw and write about the many fantasies I have in my head while listening to his music #arsonists lullaby #andrew hozier byrne #wasteland baby

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daeringdragon · 7 months

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Realized I didn’t eat the whole day so I just drove to get a pizza except I got distracted by my music bcz I can’t just listen to Hozier casually in a pizza place so I just drove around for a while blasting Hozier. It is now 8:50 pm

#hozier #music #arsonists lullaby #pizza #actually adhd #the food at home isn’t crispy enough #mac and cheese is no longer my safe food and I’m mad about it #mac and cheese is now ‘too soft’ and I hate my brain

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stardust-in-my-mind-blog · 3 months

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spiral awakening

my father used to light

so much on fire

we'd watch it together

my mother was a tornado

her eyes were only alive

when she knew she could take

her rage upon my flesh

so many broken brushes

bruising my shoulders

slapping me upside the head

when I made any sort of noise

as a girl with long hair

and the merciless drive of

bristle into snaggled silk

I was born with white hair

now it's copper red

like the taste of blood

in my cheek

when she'd slap me

over and over

looking for a reaction

I refused to give

I was gone

my father called me a

little moon person and sweetpea

he'd tell me I was full of prunes

when I told him the secrets

my imagination would whisper

we went mushroom hunting together

he was the hero of my heart

that never protected me

so how can I blame myself

for always seeking the same

kind of character? when I had my own children

and saw them in my childhood home

my mother grabbed my son's face

like she used to grab mine

my father turned from the

two year old tears of my daughter

and got into bed while drunk

and naked into the bed

of my brother's wife I knew I had to burn everything down I did it in my mind

they were inside that house

and I took an oiled torch

dipped it into my soul

enflamed and consumed

all of them

all of it

peace in ashes

and sometimes feel guilty

that I miss nothing

I sing songs of destruction

as a prayer to myself

because I had to become

the person who saved me

my children know nothing

of fearing those who claim

to love you

that died

with me

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faerie-somnium · 1 year

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My first attempt at animating fire 😬

#hozier #animation #arsonists lullaby

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seijorhi · 4 months

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What’s your favorite Hozier song?

i refuse to pick <33

#no but truly #there is a revolving door #a new hozier song starts playing #and i'm like yea this one's my fave #and then it finishes #and the next one starts #and you won't believe it #but then THAT one becomes my fave #but jokes aside i think it depends on my mood #sedated and work song always hit #arsonists lullaby #NFWMB #obviously #pretty much all of unreal unearth #rhi answers

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