Before exposing my version of the song meaning, I have to say first that it's been a while I didn't read such a good lyrics! This song is just amazingly written!!
The lyrics are about a man who's in love with a person to the point of worshipping her, and putting her at the same level than the gods ("If the Heavens ever did speak, she's the last true mouth piece"). She is in fact his religion and church. That man finds consolation in his Goddess when the real religion and the church bore him while his Goddess only asks him about love. ("Every Sunday's getting more bleak, a fresh poison each week, we were born sick, you heard them say it"). He’s getting tired the poisonous words the ministers preach, claiming that people like the singer and his lover are flawed from the beginning.("My church offers no absolutes. She tells me 'worship in the bedroom')
"If I'm a pagan of the good times
My lover's the sunlight [people used to worship the sun]
To keep the goddess on my side
She demands a sacrifice
To drain the whole sea
Get something shiny
Something meaty for the main course [for the sacrifice]
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"
"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
Good god, let me give you my life"
Oh my god how I just love this part, definitely my favourite!!
"No masters or kings when the ritual begins [making love]
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"
After understanding what the song is about I think it gets pretty clear with the last verses. Bref, the song simply amazing!
And since time, I wanted to say that that was my personnal meaning of the song, way before the video clip came out and way before Hozier explanations in the interviews.
And since time, I wanted to say that that was my personnal meaning of the song, way before the video clip came out and way before Hozier explanations in the interviews.
Before exposing my version of the song meaning, I have to say first that it's been a while I didn't read such a good lyrics! This song is just amazingly written!!
The lyrics are about a man who's in love with a person to the point of worshipping her, and putting her at the same level than the gods ("If the Heavens ever did speak, she's the last true mouth piece"). She is in fact his religion and church. That man finds consolation in his Goddess when the real religion and the church bore him while his Goddess only asks him about love. ("Every Sunday's getting more bleak, a fresh poison each week, we were born sick, you heard them say it"). He’s getting tired the poisonous words the ministers preach, claiming that people like the singer and his lover are flawed from the beginning.("My church offers no absolutes. She tells me 'worship in the bedroom')
"If I'm a pagan of the good times My lover's the sunlight [people used to worship the sun] To keep the goddess on my side She demands a sacrifice To drain the whole sea Get something shiny Something meaty for the main course [for the sacrifice] 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"
"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 Good god, let me give you my life"
Oh my god how I just love this part, definitely my favourite!!
"No masters or kings when the ritual begins [making love] 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"
After understanding what the song is about I think it gets pretty clear with the last verses. Bref, the song simply amazing!
And since time, I wanted to say that that was my personnal meaning of the song, way before the video clip came out and way before Hozier explanations in the interviews.
And since time, I wanted to say that that was my personnal meaning of the song, way before the video clip came out and way before Hozier explanations in the interviews.