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stardusted-bookworm · 7 months

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It ain't the being alone.

She'd been alone all her life. Had grown comfortable with it. Had known loneliness like an old friend. Had known. For never had loneliness wounded her the way it did now. She now knows that loneliness had left her long ago and had not been her companion since he walked into her life.

It ain't the empty home, baby.

She looks around at the house they'd called home. She is haunted by a memory. A memory of the rafters being filled with laughter and joy as he waltzed her around their dining room. A memory of the smell of spiced meats and mouth-watering dishes. Memories of endless hours of talking, of enjoying each others' companies as the fire crackled and the rain poured down outside.

These memories fade, leaving her in the cold, desolate house she had built for them. Portraits smile at her from the walls, cruel remembrances of a time no longer present. The fire no longer crackles. The stove no longer houses their cooking. And the floors remain un-danced.

You know I'm good on my own.

As she stares at a dent in the wall, she also remembers the endless fights. Him complaining that she was always gone. Shouting that she was never around. Her yelling back that she was around. All the time. That she should be allowed her own time and space. That she shouldn't need to be so firmly attached to him at all times that they fuse into one person. They had been born separate for a reason.

She remembers the silence after that. Should've predicted what came next.

You know it's more the being unknown.

He did not speak to her again, except for short words, curt answers. He was never in the house unless it was to sleep, and somedays, he did not even return for that. He no longer remembered the secrets they had shared with smiles. He no longer cared to remember her favorites, her laugh, her song. It was as if he was methodically un-remembering her.

And oh, how her heart broke at that.

And there are some people, love, who are better unknown.

She presses a hand to her chest, surprised to see it come away clean. The pain of her heart is so acute she believes she should be bleeding.

For it was not just the un-remembering. She had found out later, after he had left for the last time, that he had found someone new. Had wooed and courted this other with as much fervor as he had her. Had made them laugh, had danced with them, had enjoyed their company as ardently as he had with her.

It was then her heart cleaved. Was rent in two. Never to be mended. To be removed completely from his memory... to be treated as if she had never existed... No, there was no coming back from that.

It would've been better if she had never met him, she thinks to herself. For the good did not outweigh the bad.

She thinks back to how often he would dismiss her. Would not share in her excitement the closer they got to the end. Was it her fault? Should she have tried harder?

No. Her resolve hardens. The blame is not hers to carry. Not when he left the way he did. Not when he abandoned her before she even knew it was over.

She stands and looks at the match burning in her hand. She lets it fall to the ground and walks out of the burning house, burning the memories of him with it.

Nothing would grow on that patch of land again. She had ensured it. Had coaxed her magic back to her after years of suppressing it to make him happy. Never again would she debase herself the way she had allowed him to debase her.

She is the most powerful witch of her age. And the world would remember her power once more.

Starting with him and his pretty new bride.

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drawingtheseaonacuttlefish · 4 months

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Did Hozier know what he was doing when he created Unknown/Nth?

Having seen it live before he actually released it

Yes. Absolutely. He knew exactly what he was doing. And what it would do to us.

#it literally gets me every time #bam bam bam DO YOU KNOWWWW #andrew hozier byrne #*I* could break beneath the weight of the goodness that I still carry for *you*#maybe just like the best song written ever?#hozier #hozier fandom #hozier unreal unearth #unknown / nth

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hopeinthebox · 10 months

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i was tagged by the effervescent @cordiallyfuturedwight and i bow to her selections once again. magnificent stuff. somewhat delayed but tagging some favs @aprylynn @thvinyl @banghwa @yooboobies @pauls-mccharmly @kimchokejin @kithtaehyung 💜

#here's the debrief (if only for myself):#unknown/nth. i saw hozier live this weekend and it was a biblical experience. i achieved apotheosis during this song and at least six others #and have been Changed because of it. for better or worse- it's too early to say #02 folk malone got to me. what can i say #i loved northern attitude last year and i must've missed the stick season train but good lord did it total me this time round #feathered indians.. look. every so often i fall victim to the bluegrass and this is one of those times. lord forgive me.#maggie rogers' tim mcgraw is masterful #and annie lennox has never once missed eurythmics or otherwise #the lilo and stitch soundtrack is something that can be so personal #kamehameha schools children's chorus for artist of the year except they're all probably pushing thirty now #springsteen i will always keep coming back to. nebraska is an album and a half #dolly needs no explanation #olivia dean hasn't been around too long but oh my god she's got IT. whatever it is #dial drunk my stay toxic anthem. it's a good one. see also: the rest of the album #as for the artists - can i go a month without abba in there challenge FAILED AGAIN #also honorable mention ryan beatty. i've only just discovered calico and it's a masterpiece front to back #that's all folks. if you read all of this i'm sending you a big kiss <33 get help #tag #receiptify

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cowboylivio · 8 months

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do you like trimax and pain and suffering and also hozier? me too. I did this.

#trigun #trimax #vash the stampede #nicholas d. wolfwood #trimax edit #unknown/nth hozier #hozier #unreal unearth #cries about it cutely #the but… don’t worry. I made a friend… he ain’t as dumb as I am. yeah… with him… we could’ve done this as a team… probably #GETS ME EVERY FUCKING TIME

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selfindulgentramblings · 7 months

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"Unknown"

| markiplier x fem!reader

warnings: none

rating: fluff

word count: 470

notes: i've been listening to a shit ton of hozier lately, and this fic is very loosely inspired by that one part of "Unknown / Nth" (you know the one), more so inspired by how it makes me feel, how being loved is being known, and the depth of love in simplicity... i'm talking too much but anyways here's morning voice mark

☆⭑✦⭑☆

Sunbeams crept across your face, resting on your closed eyelashes and making their presence known. You huffed, opening your eyes - and then immediately regretting open your eyes, feeling blinded by the sun - and rolled over towards the warmth radiating to your right: your sweet, sleeping boyfriend. Just seeing how peaceful he looked made your heart swell. He was the most perfect, loving human with the biggest heart you'd ever known. He was also a walking furnace, which was fantastic for you, because you were somehow always cold. He sighed contentedly as you nuzzled your face into his chest, the sweet sound rumbling against your ears.

"G'morning, love," he said quietly, voice low and gruff from the night's sleep. You wouldn't have thought it possible to still get butterflies this far into a relationship, but god, that morning voice got you every damn time. He gazed at you gently, nothing but drowsiness and adoration in those big, brown eyes. You hummed in contentedness, wishing to live in this moment, with him, forever.

Between the rays of sunlight dancing on your exposed skin (that had slipped its way out from under the blanket in your shuffling) and your boyfriend's arms, now snaking their way around the small of your back; your heart felt as though it could burst with warmth. The good kind, the kind that feels like sitting by the fire on Christmas Eve. The kind that swallowed you whole. Not that you minded, really.

He began to rustle around, his warmth beginning to leave you as he moved to sit up. You clung to him tightly, causing him to chuckle, but remain in place all the same. "Stay," you said simply, staring into his eyes hopefully.

"Baby, I've got work," Mark began, trailing off a bit when you began running your hands through his hair.

"Just for a little longer," you pleaded. Maybe it was how intoxicating your boyfriend's warmth was, or perhaps it was your fear that when a good moment comes, it'll be the last time; no matter where it came from, or how silly it felt, you couldn't let go of this moment. Not yet.

"Just for a bit," he smiled, knowing that he could never say no to you. How lucky he was to have you, an angel on earth, here in his arms. Half asleep, barely able to focus, yet undoubtedly in love with him. His heart beamed, the lines by his eyes crinkling. He was a goner, and he knew it. Just looking at you - draped across his chest, eyes slowly drooping shut, sweet smile on your face - he was sure he was never going to love again. You were it. You were perfect. Everything he ever wanted and needed, right here.

Maybe he could stay, just a little longer.

#mark fischbach #markiplier #mark fischbach x reader #markiplier x reader #markiplier imagines #comfort #fluff

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midnights-dragon · 12 days

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I see you like good omens and hozier... Whats your favorite hozier lyric(s) in relation to az (i cannot spell his name) and crowley :)

Oh god why would you do this to me /pos

Hrngg I refuse to pick one favorite. I have several. You will regret asking me this.

Okay. Well. So.

First and foremost, from I Carrion, Icarian. This song has always struck me as VERY Crowley-coded in general, specifically with its references to Falling, but these lyrics just punch me in the gut in relation to him; it very much reads as Crowley finding hope anew in Aziraphale after his Fall, finding something to be his home now that Heaven is gone to him; finding all of that in the angel he met on the wall of Eden.

And though I burn, how could I Fall? / When I am lifted by every word you say to me / If anything could fall at all, it's the world / That falls away from me

And then we have Unknown / Nth. UGH. Y'all. This song makes me bawl. These lyrics in particular sing to me as if it is Aziraphale reminiscing over how happy Crowley was as an angel, and how different he is as a demon; how far he is from his stars, and how much that makes his own light dim.

You called me angel for the first time, / My heart leapt from me / You smile now, I can see its pieces still stuck in your teeth / And what's left of it, I listen to it tick / Every tedious beat going unknown as any angel to me

These lyrics, contrastingly, sing to me like Crowley, doing anything and everything for Aziraphale and never asking for anything in return. And yet still feeling like he can't measure up to what HE believes is Aziraphale's idealized version of him; when, truly, the only thing Aziraphale wants back from Crowley's angel self, is for him to be happy again. To give him back the stars. (By the way - go look up the true meaning of this song, it's astounding.)

That I'd walk so far just to take / The injury of finally knowing you

SHRIKE. Y'all I have so so SO many feelings about this song but these lyrics. THESE LYRICS. They just SCREAM Crowley's confession. The words hung above / But never would form especially, and him feeling like it is his final cry to get Aziraphale to see how much he loves him, and how much he is begging him to stay, to be an us. And when Aziraphale 'forgives' him, Crowley becomes the shrike.

Coincidentally, shrikes are frequent hunters of serpents; as if Crowley is the shrike to his own serpent, and to Aziraphale's thorn. Impaling himself on it to be the shrike he THINKS Aziraphale wants. It's devastating.

The words hung above / But never would form / Like a cry at the final / Breath that is drawn / Remember me, love / When I'm reborn / As the shrike to your sharp / And glorious thorn

All Things End. THE final fifteen song. THE Crowley confession song, and THE KISS song. The EVERY song. Every lyric just screams Nothing Lasts Forever. They have never known a silence like the one fallen over them; they have never watched their futures darken in a single tear; they want it to go easy by being somebody's fault, but they've gone long enough to know that isn't what they want.

Just ... God, that entire song. It strikes right to the gut, and it is absolutely destructive in that way.

I have never known a silence like the one fallen here / Never watched my future darken in a single tear / I know we want this to go easy by being somebody's fault / But we've gone long enough to know this isn't what we want / And that isn't always bad / When people say that something is forever / Either way, it ends

Finally (even though I could go on and on and ON), we of course have Too Sweet, which Hozier arguably wrote while talking to a depressed, divorced Crowley in a bar. I don't even have a specific lyric; that entire song was sung by Crowley about Aziraphale, full stop. It's Hozier's version of Somebody To Love by Queen.

THANK YOU FOR THIS ASK it was absolutely tortuous and I enjoyed every second of answering it. <3 I'm so glad you liked my quiz!

#tristen rants into the fucking void of nothing #hozier #good omens #asks #silly stuff #personal #aziracrow #aziraphale #crowley #hozier good omens

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star-luvrx · 7 months

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Hozier lyrics as... Crowley

The only heaven I'll be sent to Is when I'm alone with you

-take me to church

Take me to church I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies I'll tell you my sins, and you can sharpen your knife Offer me that deathless death Oh, good God, let me give you my life

-take me to church

I slithered here from Eden just to sit outside your door

-from eden

To share the space with simple living things Infinitely suffering, but fighting off like all creation The absence of itself, anyway

-first time

And though I burn, how could I fall When I am lifted by every word you say to me? If anything could fall at all, it's the world That falls away from me

-i, carrion

Falling from you drop by drop What I had left here I just held it tight So someone with your eyes Might come in time To hold me like water Or Christ, hold me like a knife

-who we are

And just knowin' that everything will end Should not change our plans when wе begin again

-all things end

I don't wanna be anything But I would do everything just to run away I don't wanna be anything like this at all But I would do everything if you'd hear me say

-anything but

Do you know I could break beneath the weight Of the goodness, love, I still carry for you? That I'd walk so far just to take The injury of finally knowin' you?

-unknown/nth

There's no plan, there's no hand on the rein As Mack explained, there will be darkness again

-no plan

You know when it's twelve o'clock in Soho, baby It's gin o'clock where I wake up, I don't know And I think about you though, everywhere I go And I've done everythin' and I've been everywhere, you know

-nobody

And on the other side, why should we deny the truth? We could have less to worry about, honey, I won't lie to you But everything I do, I've had no love like your love

-nobody

Be that hopeful feeling when Eden was lost It's been deaf to our laughter since the master was crossed Which side of the wall really suffers that cost?

-be

There are questions I can't ask Now at last, the worst is over See the way you hold yourself Reel against, your body's borders I know that you hate this place Not a trace of me would argue Honey, we should run away, oh someday

-to be alone

Boys, when my baby found me I was three days on a drunken sin I woke with her walls around me Nothin' in her room but an empty crib And I was burnin' up a fever I didn't care much how long I lived But I swear, I thought I dreamed her She never asked me once about the wrong I did

-work song

My babe would never fret none About what my hands and my body done If the Lord don't forgive me I'd still have my baby, and my babe would have me When I was kissin' on my baby And she put her love down, soft and sweet In the low lamplight, I was free Heaven and hell were words to me

-work song

Don't give it a hand, offer it a soul Honey, make this easy Leave it to the land, this is what it knows

-it will come back

Jesus Christ, don't be kind to me Honey, don't feed me, I will come back

It can't be unlearned I've known the warmth of your doorways Through the cold, I'll find my way back to you

-it will come back

All you have is your fire And the place you need to reach Don't you ever tame your demons Always keep them on a leash

-arsonists lullabye

Oh, if the car ran, the car was enough If the sun shone on us, it's a plus And the tank was always filled up

-damage gets done

Without shame, two outfits then to my name You'd end up in one when you'd stay We had nowhere to go and every desire for goin' there

-damage gats done

#hozier lyrics #writing #good omens #hozier unreal unearth #hozier #wasteland baby #good omens 2 #aziracrow #azicrow #anthony j crowley #crowley #go #go2 #gomens

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purpie-goddess · 6 months

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Good Omens as Hozier Unreal Unearth Lyrics

De Selby 1- No closer could I be to God / Or why he could do what he's done

De Selby 2- too down bad for good omens let's be real

First Time- not applicable so much, unless it's 'first time that you called me angel' lol

Francesca (works so well for Crowley)- Heaven is not fit to house a love like you and I

I, Carrion (Icarian) - We'll float away, but if we fall I only pray, don't fall away from me / I do not have wings, love, I never will, soarin' over a world you are carryin'

Eat Your Young- N/A

Damage Gets Done - That first car was like wings on an angel (and you flew away) / Before the whole wide world got too thin

Who We Are (Is literally perfect for them) - You and I burned out our steam chasing someone else's dream / How can something be so much heavier but so much less than what it seems? / Darling, we sacrificed / We gave our time to something undefined

All Things End (Oh Crowley, nothing lasts forever) - I have never known a silence like the one fallen here / Never watched my future darken in a single tear / And all things end / All that we intend is built on sand / Slips right through our hands

To Someone From a Warm Climate - There are some things that no one teaches you, love / That God in his awful wisdom first programs in

Butchered Tongue will never mean anything else to me but a lament for Gaelic language and the generational trauma of my Irish ancestors so I'll omit it

Anything But- I don't wanna be anything / But I would do anything just to run away

Abstract (Psychopomp) - The Earth from a distance / See how it shines

Unknown/Nth (Buckle in) - You called me angel for the first time / My heart leapt from me / You smile now, I can see its pieces still stuck in your teeth / And what's left of it, I listen to it tick / Every tedious beat going unknown as any angel to me / Do you know, I could break beneath the weight / Of the goodness, love, I still carry for you

First Light - Darkness always finds you either way / It creeps into the corners as the moment fades / A voice your body jumps to calling out your name / But after this I'm never gonna be the same / And I am never going back again

#good omens #aziracrow #crowley #aziraphale #good omens season 2 spoilers #good omens season two #hozier #unreal unearth #hozier unreal unearth

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crybabydraws · 7 months

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I just listened to Hozier's album Unreal Unearth and I'm gonna explode. Holy shit what an amazing album and what an incredible artist. Here are my first impressions I got from each song.

De Selby (Part 1) - Very pretty. A beautiful song to start this album. A wonderful taste of what's to come

De Selby (Part2) - FUNKY! I'll be taking this and I will be listening to it on repeat til I'm sick of it or dead. Whichever comes first (probably death tbh).

First Time - Just a simple love song (I'm lying). It doesn't really speak to me on any kind of existential level (still lying).

Francesca - What a lovely sonG OH HOLY SHIT- (Also the ending portion of this song is heavenly, pun intended)

I, Carrion (Icarian) - I could only think about Crowley and Aziraphale when this song came on. It fits them SOOO well! Anyways, gorgeous song!

Eat Your Young - The sound of this song is so awesome and sexy for a song that uses a clever parallel to Chronos to keep the Greek mythology theme to make it about sacrificing the next generation for money and power. I live for it.

Damage Gets Done - Hozier and Brandi Carlile's voices are so pretty together. This song sounds like running through a flower filled field with someone you want to be buried next to.

Who we are - This song speaks for itself and what it has to say is beautiful and painful as shit. I love this song.

Son of Nyx - The animated masterpiece that I made in my head to this song was incredible.

All Things End - "If there was anyone to ever get through this life with their heart still intact, they didn't do it right." GODAMN SO TRUE! This song is so nice. Accepting that everything will end while still keeping hope that we'll begin again UGH! I LOVE IT!

To Someone From A Warm Climate (Uiscefhuaraithe) - Beautiful. Incredible. I'm speechless. I also cannot believe that word is pronounced that way.

Butchered Tongue - This reads to me like a poetic love letter to language, music, and to Hozier's hometown. It goes over his personal experience with growing up in his hometown and appreciating it even more as he experiences other places and recognizes even more how it has affected him. That's what I got at least. Lovely song ofc.

Anything But - If the previous song was about the love of things that make us human and connect us like language, this song is about the feeling of wanting to be anything but human or, better yet, nothing at all. So cool. I love this man.

Abstract (Psychopomp) - When I listened to this song for the first time, I didn't really pay attention to the lyrics. I still teared up. I still haven't really looked at the lyrics and I'm still emotional about it. I love music. I love life. I love that I get to experience this with my ears. I love that I can appreciate it and understand it. GOD THIS ALBUM IS SO GOOOOD!!!

Unknown/Nth - This song with a math reference in the title makes me lose my mind in the best way. "Do you know I could break beneath the weight of the goodness, love, I still carry for you that I'd walk so far just to take the injury of finally knowing you." That might just be the most emotional line I've ever heard in my life jfc.

First Light - The melodies he is singing in this song do something to me. I ascend every time that pre chorus/chorus comes in. LIKE DAMN, IF I BREATHED IN THIS SONG, I WOULD SEE INFINITY!

I need to study the lyrics of all of these songs in an academic manner soon. I could only dream of the artistry that Hozier achieved here. This album will probably change my life.

#GODAMN HOZIERRRR!!!#ramblings #hozier #unreal unearth

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m-arahuyo · 4 months

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getting to know me

been dead here a while so i suppose this is as good a come back as any HEY ERRBODY i live

also thanks to the lovely @sp4cedr4g0n for tagging me here

last song: abstract (psychopomp) by hozier, been listening to it at least a couple times a day every day since last week. this man really be out for blood with this entire album

before abstract, it was DO YOU KNOW I COULD BREAK BENEATH THE WEIGHT unknown/nth, but i got that out of my head soon as i was able to write smth for it so,,,

favorite color: way too difficult to choose between cyan and pink so i'm saying both, don't touch me

currently watching: JENNA MARBLES. the serotonin from watching her put on a fake beard and turn herself into a chair is just,,, [chef's kiss]. i miss her dearly

annnnd are yall ready for some true crime bec i also just started till murder do us part

last movie/show: i (re)watched gone girl last weekend with my brother while drunk and we were both still,,, awestruck at the carefully crafted diabolicalness. mother

spicy/savory/sweet: all three is fine right

relationship status: been single for bout 2 years now

current obsession: SONG SO MI SONG SO MI SONG SO MI S O N G B I R D im gon go feral I WILL PROTECT HER W MY LIFE

last google search: "iska movie" bec while it was a movie released in 2019, saw it getting a lot of flak online (locally) lately and wanted to see what it was all about. general consensus is that it's poverty porn and just pointlessly upsetting so,,, am i still gon see it for myself? probably

and now for the tagging god i am terrified of bothering people but here are both pallies (im sorta back hi) and mutuals i jus wanna be more of pallies w, no pressure to anybody tho!! u dont need to answer, could jus think of this as a gud gud poke that someone thought abt u

@ossifer-bones @nanocupcakes @lostchips @amaltheaz @xanmemes

some of yall followed me for the fics i am so sorry for disappearing into the void, much love tho

#tag game #about #thanks randy u are lovely

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otrtbs · 8 months

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NAT! are u back in the states? i need ur opinions on the pumpkin cold brew from starbucks and the hozier album at your earliest convenience!! (my favortie song at the moment is abstract)

REG HELLO!! <33 (i've been sitting on this until i could let the hozier album settle in me) i am back in the states (someone seriously needs 2 remove me from target and panera i come for their strawberry mint charged lemonades every other day,,it's bad) !! 🥳 pumpkin coldbrew is fine but MY DRINK IS THE ICED PUMPKIN CREAM CHAI YEAH! i get that and load it up w espresso shots and zoom around town pretending it's fall even tho its 100+ degrees outside!! it's true ! also the hozier album!!! i really love first time !! i think it's my favorite on the album (as of right now) but the album is so so good!! i also super love unknown / Nth and De Selby (Part 1) is so beautiful as well!!! ugh such a good album !!!

#asks

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green-cargaytions · 5 months

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hiiiii if i wanted to get into hozier music. where should i start :3

oscar i’ve been staring at this ask freaking out for like the last twenty minutes (positive) i have no idea where to even begin!!!

ok so it’s helpful to know that every hozier song is like

pick all that apply: horny, feral, deeply tender, deeply sad, existential crisis, remembrance of things past, women pretty, politics, religion, poetry, new and unhinged emotions. i can rec for any and all of these categories

on the whole, hozier does a lot of fingerstyle guitar; he’s influenced most deeply by blues, r&b and other Black music. his music is very emotions so crying. literally he will speak in extended metaphors and literary allusions…ough…

the first album (2014) is eponymous, it’s just called hozier. very acoustic, indie sound, he literally recorded it in his parents’ attic. everyone knows it for Take Me To Church. make sure to listen to the expanded version! big themes of religion.

his second album (2019) is called Wasteland, Baby!, and it is definitely the horniest album of the three- but it has some of the most poetic songs as well! this one sounds really dreamy. the album art is fantastic. underwater photoshoot WHOMST. also definitely don’t forget the E.P for this one, it has two amazing songs that aren’t on the album.

his most recent album (2023) is called Unreal Unearth and it’s based loosely on Dante’s Inferno/ the nine circles of hell. it’s definitely his most produced-sounding album, but imo it stays in line with his unique sound, and his lyric-writing skills have only gotten better. he’s also begun collaborating a lot more with this album! note that Through Me (The Flood) isn’t on the album, just the EP, but so worth listening to.

oh lord, this has gotten long. i’m willing to do a more in-depth breakdown of each album if you want!

for now, i’ll give you some quick faves from each one:

(god i can’t choose rjakgksfksjgjsy)

Hozier (2014): Jackie and Wilson, It Will Come Back, From Eden, and In The Woods Somewhere.

Wasteland, Baby! (2019): Shrike, NFWMB, Almost (Sweet Music), As It Was, and Sunlight.

Unreal Unearth (2023): Abstract (Psychopomp), Unknown/Nth, First Time, and Son Of Nyx. Special shout-out to the All Things End music video.

OKAY THIS HAS GOTTEN LONG, SORRY, PLEASE ASK ME IF YOU HAVE MORE QUESTIONS

p.s if there is a hozier, then - the existence of a hoziest is implied ….somewhere out there….

#notes from the herb garden #hozier #ask

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ambriel-angstwitch · 9 months

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Unknown/Nth is Ridiculously Merthur Coded

At least in my hyperfixated mind. So I actually was thinking about this concept before Speak Now TV released and it was pushed to the side so now here it is.

You know the distance never made a difference to me I swam a lake of fire, I'd have walked across the floor of any see. Ignored the vastness between all that can be seen And all that we believe

Merlin would have done anything for Arthur. He put himself in pain and hard situations to protect Arthur. He wanted to believe that one day Arthur would create the prophesied Albion and return of Albion despite how different that was from the current situation.

So I thought you were like an angel to me. Funny how true colours shine in darkness and in secrecy. If there were scarlet flags, they washed down in the mind of me

This speaks both to the way their relationship was kept in secrecy and how they adored each other. But it’s also reminiscent of the secrets that Merlin kept and how Arthur was so blind to them. Merlin wasn’t the best at keeping his magic secret despite using them usually in the shadows. He’s even admitted to it but Arthur never noticed it if he did he choose to ignore it because it would only cause him pain. If Merlin had magic he’s been betraying him since the beginning. He’d “need” to kill the one person he trusted most.

Where a blinding light shone on you every night. And either side of my sleep Where you were held frozen like an angel to me

The moment with Merlin in Ealdor is forever frozen in Arthur’s mind. The light eliminated Merlin’s features

It ain't the being alone. It ain't the empty home, baby You know I'm good on my own Sha la la, baby. You know, it's more the being unknown So much of the living, love, is the being unknown

Merlin understands more than anyone that being unknown is painful. But now years in the future all of his friends are gone. He used to be ok with being alone and having an empty but now that he’s experienced the full castle with the knights and Arthur it’s so much harder to be completely unknown. The unknown is the worst of it. But in a way he’s been unknown most of his life even Arthur didn’t really know him

You called me angel for the first time My heart leapt from me You smile now, I can see its pieces still stuck in your teeth And what's left of it, I listen to it tick Every tedious beat going unknown as any angel to me

Ok these lyrics I don’t really have a connection to Merthur for other than Arthur feeling betrayed when the magic is revealed but I just really love the imagery of the betrayal being the loved one devouring and destroying the heart that once beat for them.

Do you know, I could break beneath the weight. Of the goodness, love, I still carry for you

Everything they do they do for each other. They’ve both done so much just to keep each other safe, some of which they regret.

That I'd walk so far just to take. The injury of finally knowing you

Arthur finally gets to see everything that Merlin’s been hiding. It hurts that Merlin never trusted him and that Merlin isn’t exactly what he thought but it’s an injury Arthur worked towards and it’s worth it to understand the man he loves. (Or alternatively canon wise Arthur literally was injured when he finally knew Merlin)

You know, it's more the being unknown And there are some people, love, who are better unknown

And to end it on an angsty note. Merlin feels it’s better for people to have never known him. Because all of the people who have ever known about him have died.

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oldbookshop · 9 months

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a list of hozier songs to remind you of the ineffable divorce the happily married ineffable husbands

[From Eden] I slithered here from Eden / Just to sit outside your door

[Angel of Small Death and the Codeine Scene] I watch the work of my kin, bold and boyful / Toying somewhere between love and abuse / Calling to join them, the wretched and joyful / Shaking the wings of their terrible youths

[Sunlight] A soul that's born in cold and rain / Knows sunlight, sunlight, sunlight / And at last can grant a name / To a buried and burning flame / As love and its decisive pain

[Take Me to Church] There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin

[Francesca] Heaven is not fit to house a love like you and I

[Like Real People Do] I will not ask where you came from / I will not ask and neither should you / Honey, just put your sweet lips on my lips / We should just kiss like real people do

[To Be Alone] But I don't know what else that I would do / Than try to kiss the skin that crawls from you / Then feel your weight in arms I'd never use

[Unknown / Nth] You called me angel for the first time / My heart leapt from me / You smile now, I can see its pieces still stuck in your teeth / And what's left of it, I listen to it tick / Every tedious beat going unknown as any angel to me

[All Things End] The last time I felt your weight on my chest, you said / "We didn't get it right, but love, we did our best" / And we will again

[Nobody] I wouldn't fall for someone / I thought couldn't misbehave / But I want you to know that / I've had no love like your love

[Be] Be there and you stare as you stand / Or be like that rose you hold in your hand / That will grow bold in a battered and desolate land / Oh, lover, be good to me

[Would That I] With the war of the fire / My Heart moves to its feet / Like the ashes of ash / I saw eyes in the heat / Feel it soft and as pure as snow / Fell in love with the fire long ago

#good omens #good omens season 2 #ineffable divorce #ineffable husbands #hozier #hozier lyrics #wasteland baby #de selby part 2 #go2 spoilers #gos2 #truly all hozier songs are good omens core #can't believe he watched the show and then wrote all those bangers #long post

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astrobei · 8 months

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top 3 unreal unearth tracks...................................................

saw this ask come in and whispered “oh no…..” aloud to myself…… WHY WOULD YOU ASK ME THIS……. i fr need at least five slots to start with and even then it changes every day based on my mood. anyways here are kind of my top three not including the ep tracks (bc i’ve had more time to sit with them and absorb them into my bones)

1. the de selbys (bonded pair do not separate. love them both separately for their own reasons but together. TOGETHER. oh my god.)

2. abstract (psychopomp)

3. first time. for now. but first light and i, carrion are GORGEOUS so maybe those three on rotation or something idk

including the ep tracks:

1. also the de selbys

2. unknown/nth

3. abstract (psychopomp) OR francesca

but eat your young gets a fourth/honorable mention because it just scratches my brain in all the right places and the concept is just so good. so so good

this was kind of cheating probably but that’s what you get for asking me to just pick THREE favs off a hozier album. as if i could ever.

#as if i don’t have at six favs from each of his albums #and probably more #this stressed me out. my answer might change in a week. who knows. hmhngngnngnns #/ask #hozier

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be-bisexual-eat-hot-chip-and-lie · 8 months

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unreal unearth thoughts:

de selby (part 1)

- the harmonies ughhhh

- this man is singing in irish !!!

- this is in fact a religious experience

de selby (part 2)

- i’d block the sun if you want it gone shjshshah

first time

- his voice is so soft and lovely

- as it was and ever shall be my all girls catholic school ass is screaming in religious imagery

- some part of me must have died the final time you called me baby !!!! I AM UNWELL

francesca

- my life was a storm since i was born, how could i fear any hurricane

- this man is a poet

- the ah-ah ah-ahs scratch my brain so good omg

- heaven is not fit to house a love like you and i

- the choral arrangement of this the layers and harmonies i am screaming i am crying i am losing my mind

i, carrion (icarian)

- icarus?!

- i am lifted by every word you sing (said?) to me

- its such a lovely and light tune

- if we fall, i only pray, dont fall away from me

eat your young

- i cannot wait to hear this live oh my fuck

- the little vocal riff motif thing is just. so good?

damage gets done

- we had nowhere to go and every desire for going there

- harmonies make me go feral

- darlin’

- layered sounds i am normal about this (i am most definitely not)

who we are

- piano!!

- hold me like a knife

- 2:34-3:22 makes me happy dance

son of nyx

- me when greek myth !!

- string arrangement that devastates /pos

all things end

- if there was anyone to ever get through this life with their heart still intact, they didnt do it right

- i love how his voice changes from song to song ugh a man with range

- darlin’

- choral arrangement!!! i am dead deceased done for every time

to someone from a warm climate (uiscefhuaraithe)

- darlin

- it am someone from a warm climate (mexico) this song is for me

- there are some things that no one teaches you

- i just want a compilation of this man calling me darlin please that will cure my depression

butchered tongue

- soft and devastating

- the shattered bedrock of our home sir why must you hurt me like this

- if he plays this live i will weep inconsolably

anything but

- immediately more upbeat

- if i was a riptide i wouldn’t take you out

- harmonies shakgakahsjs

- drumbeat

- if i had his job you would live forever

abstract (psychopomp)

- your hand in my pocket to keep us both warm

- i need the lyrics for this whole album ngl

- brass section

- im afraid we’ll always be trapped within an abstract

unknown/nth

- you know the distance never made a difference to me UGH

- so much of the living, love, is the being unknown

- do you know i could break beneath the weight of the goodness, love, i still carry for you

- the way he sings that bit just. makes me go !!!!

first light

- harmonies !

- like i lived my whole life before the first light

- darkness always finds you either way

- after this im never gonna be the same (he’s right i won’t)

- layered sound scratches my brain

- guitar!

long story short

i love hozier

#hozier #unreal unearth #i need to hear this live #if i love one man it is andrew hozier-byrne

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