| Hozier – Take Me to Church Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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@[loore8251:1774] That's exactly how I took that. In French "la petite morte" means "the little death," as a French friend told me. Just another way he's playing with the church/sex parallel. Was anyone else thinking of Walt Whitman when they heard this part below? There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene Only then I am human Only then I am clean In "Leaves of Grass," Whitman wrote: "Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touch'd from; The scent of these armpits aroma finer than prayer; This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds. If I worship one thing more than another it shall be the spread of my own body or any part of it." That was a really revolutionary poem when Whitman wrote it, saying the body is more divine than any church, essentially. Hozier is echoing the same sentiment. What a beautiful, touching, thoughtful song. |
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