| Hozier – Shrike Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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I think no one has gotten it quite right, even though it's pretty clearly spelled out IMHO. I'll start by clipping some of the lyrics so that it becomes more obvious. I'll just make a paragraph out of them. """All of my goodness is gone with you now, hung like the pelt of some prey you had worn. Remember me love, when I'm reborn as the shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn.""" Okay, the lover has essentially killed who he was before being reborn. Having killed who he was once to her because all of the good is dead to her in light of his faults. She sees the faults. (all of his goodness dead, hung on a thorn by her as prey) He now sees his own faults and is going to metaphorically feed on the lessons learned from that, on his old self. He has been reborn and now his old self is also dead to him. He will come to her as someone who now is as she is in that he has much the same view of his old self and they have both killed that person in their minds/hearts. They are both shrikes and it's his old self hung up on thorns...anyway, that's my take. |
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