| Hozier – Take Me to Church Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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@[swsd:1818], very good post, but I disagree about the deathless death being a reference to orgasm. It's just not used in that context, that whole paragraph references the church, not his lover,..if it was in a different line, I'd say ok. But there are a couple references to closeted gays, that being one of them. A deathless death is living a life where you're essentially dead, you're stripped of intimacy and sex and love, a denial of your basic humanity. It's referenced again, I think, with the "we've got a lot of starving faithful." Which means, lots of closeted parishioners, and perhaps even straight parishioners who deny themselves a lover if they follow the teachings of celibacy and virginity by the book. Starving also in the sense that even as they are filled up to the brim with church teaching, they are still starving not only sexually but emotionally. I did find this last part troubling, and imo it could mean that in answer to the starving faithful....abusive priests and pastors fill that void by noticing the "fine looking" horses in their stable, and oral sex is the result. When you're starving, for love, for desire, you'll accept the bottle like a child, if the breast is denied you, so to speak. "That's a fine looking high horse What you got in the stable? We've a lot of starving faithful That looks tasty That looks plenty This is hungry work" |
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| Hozier – Take Me to Church Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[david52665:1817], you're on target except for the "deathless death." That refers to his life in the church, not reaching heaven. In order to accept the fellowship of the church, he would be required to accept a deathless death,....meaning, a life where he is for all intents and purposes dead, without actually (physically) dying. If you are forced to give up sex, intimacy, love,....and experience not only forced celibacy, but emotional denial of your very being, then you are living a deathless death. Some do, but thankfully most don't. | |
| Hozier – Take Me to Church Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I think many of you are off base with the deathless death interpretation. "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" To me, he's clearly talking about the church, not his lover, although the song itself jumps around and talks about both. Worshiping "like a dog at the shrine of your lies" is not worshiping his lover, it's about a man (probably a gay man) being asked to go to church and worship there not as an equal, but like a dog. The next sentence says that he's offered a "deathless death" which means dead without really dying, a life which is like death. That life is one in which he will have to be celibate, without love from a partner, and without desire. It's a life of existence only. |
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