Hozier, in Birmingham at The Institute on 23/01/15: "[James Joyce] famously had a quote about Ireland in which he lovingly said [...] that Ireland is the sow that eats its farrow. And so it's the pig that eats her young, which I think he meant that in a loving way, but this next song is kind of about that, I suppose."
I've never read Joyce, but that still helps a lot of pieces fall together.
Charles Stewart Parnell and Kitty O'Shea are the love that needs to be covered, because it was an adulterous affair. Which just points to the thrust of the song being the destructive nature of love, if for no other reason than because people aren't willing to tolerate it.
Pushes that it goes down to the land and sea destroying each other, particularly when they form a union as well. Animals eating their young as an image of love/destruction also.
Very nice. Though today I'm mostly just amused by the consumption pun with the bleeding lungs and hungry sow.
Hozier, in Birmingham at The Institute on 23/01/15: "[James Joyce] famously had a quote about Ireland in which he lovingly said [...] that Ireland is the sow that eats its farrow. And so it's the pig that eats her young, which I think he meant that in a loving way, but this next song is kind of about that, I suppose."
I've never read Joyce, but that still helps a lot of pieces fall together.
Charles Stewart Parnell and Kitty O'Shea are the love that needs to be covered, because it was an adulterous affair. Which just points to the thrust of the song being the destructive nature of love, if for no other reason than because people aren't willing to tolerate it.
Pushes that it goes down to the land and sea destroying each other, particularly when they form a union as well. Animals eating their young as an image of love/destruction also.
Very nice. Though today I'm mostly just amused by the consumption pun with the bleeding lungs and hungry sow.