| Wild Beasts – All The King's Men Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| At first listening to this song it seemed exciting and romantic, but of course the boys are deeper than that. I read somewhere it was inspired by watching lines of older men in their shiny cars waiting to pick up high-school girls from their prep schools in England (e.g., Roedean). Now when I hear it I can't help but think of the equally brilliant movie, An Education. Wild beasts, we miss you. | |
| Yeasayer – 2080 Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| yup | |
| Hozier – Take Me to Church Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| "As a matter of fact I have had friends in the church who were gay or formerly gay" what is this, 1950? it's not a mental illness people, it doesn't just "go away" | |
| Hozier – Take Me to Church Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think the video really threw people a bit to interpret what is undoubtedly one of the most raw and creative love songs in a while to be a political statement or total dig at religion. I feel it was intended to be more playful, a metaphoric interpretation of what it's like falling or being in love. Maybe because I am about to get married, but you do give you life to someone and lose yourself a bit in the process of becoming one couple unit. Obviously marriage is not against any religion and certainly not all about sex, but you can easily make a case and thus the metaphor of worshiping or serving your partner, in the bedroom or in life, and only then, even in losing some aspects of yourself are you really fulfilled or "cleansed". If you believe wikipedia, quotes from the artist indicate a similar theme in the song, yet he is likely describing a more tenuous or new/young love that was on the rocks: Lyrically, Take Me to Church is one large metaphor, with the protagonist comparing his lover to religion. Hozier states to The Irish Times, "I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death, a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment – if you see yourself for a moment through their eyes – everything you believed about yourself gone. In a death-and-rebirth sense." This song was written in the wake of a breakup with his first girlfriend, calling it both a love song and a contemplation of sin. Hozier described it to The Guardian as, "a bit of a losing your religion song."[3] Music video The music video for "Take Me to Church" was directed by Brendan Canty and was released on 25 September 2013. The video, shot in grayscale, follows the relationship between two men in a same-sex relationship and the violently homophobic backlash that ensues when the community learns of one of the men's sexuality. Hozier himself does not appear in this video. Ireland's State magazine noted that the video echoes the wave of violence currently plaguing the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in many parts of the world, particularly Russia. "The song was always about humanity at its most natural, and how that is undermined ceaselessly by religious [organizations] and those who would have us believe they act in its interests. What has been seen growing in Russia is no less than nightmarish, I proposed bringing these themes into the story and Brendan liked the idea."[4][5] |
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