| Hozier – Take Me to Church Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I’ll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife. Here I believe he’s talking about someone coming clean about being homosexual someone judging him and condemning him for his sins. The knife, to me, symbolizes the instant persecution some face when their sexuality becomes known. Offer me my deathless death. Good God, let me give you my life. I interpret this in a few ways. One being that “deathless death” could be referring to an orgasm as in French, orgasm is said “la petite mort” meaning “the little death.” When you climax, you don’t die in a literal sense, but you feel a “Heaven on earth” feeling. Euphoria. Couple that with the second meaning that, when you are with someone you truly love, you feel bliss. “Let me give you my life.” A vow. “We were born sick,” you heard them say it. Speaking about how same sex couples are considered sick, diseased, deranged or mentally ill. The only heaven I’ll be sent to is when I’m alone with you. Speaking about how same sex couples are condemned to hell, but when he’s with the one he loves, he experiences heaven. That’s a fine-looking high horse. What you got in the stable? We’ve a lot of starving faithful. I believe here he’s referring to how some are classified as religious, but are the biggest sinners when there are some genuinely good, faithful atheists or non-believers who exist that are worthy of “Heaven” if there were one. There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin. Here I think he’s talking about how loving someone is pure, and therefore the sin is “gentle”… harmless. Hurting no one else. Almost as if he’s pointing out how something so innocent can be seen as so horrific. |
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| Hozier – From Eden Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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“From Eden,” to me, sounds to me like there’s a woman he’s in love with - or having an affair with - who clearly has a significant other. Babe, there’s something tragic about you. Something so magic about you. Don’t you agree? Babe, there’s something lonesome about you. Something so wholesome about you. Get closer to me. Something about her sadness draws him in. No tired sighs, no rolling eyes, no irony. No ‘who cares’, no vacant stares, no time for me. He doesn’t get the most dreaded parts of a relationship since she’s with someone else. Him not having that portion of it means she has no true time to be invested in him and be exclusive. Honey, you’re familiar like my mirror years ago. She reminds him of himself when he was younger. Idealism sits in prison, chivalry fell on its sword. Innocence died screaming, honey, ask me I should know. Ideally, he’d like to be with her the way a real couple should be… but in an ideal world, they’re together in a wholesome manner, and not just having a fling on the side which is anti-chivalrous. He knows firsthand because he’s experiencing it in their relationship. Before this relationship, he was probably against adultery, but now he’s sucked into his own hypocrisy and his innocence on this subject has died. I slithered here from Eden just to sit outside your door. He’s referring to himself as the serpent in the story of Adam and Eve. He is the one who suckered her and lead her into temptation, much like the serpent did to Eve. He’s sitting outside her door… waiting? For her to give all of herself to him? Babe, there’s something wretched about this. Something so precious about this. This sin is very wrong to him, but being with her feels so good. Oh, what a sin. This line is the most obvious. Adultery is listed as a sin in the Bible. But I think he’s saying this in a “how sweet it is” sort of way. To the strand a picnic plan for you and me. A rope in hand for your other man to hang from a tree. Here I think he’s saying he’d (her man) kill for her. To make her completely and utterly his. He dresses up in the previous line, presenting the idea to her with a nice date first… but ultimately abandoning that scene for the kill. |
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