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#i haven't seen ONE SINGLE PERSON talk about this song and im going insane andrew what the actual fuck
p4nishers · 9 months
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when hozier said "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 when hozier said "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" and when he said "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" and then he said something like "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" and when he wrote butchered tongue i died
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