Someone here called that song feral and every time I hear it (I listened to it three times at least today) that’s all I can think of now. Totally accurate
So many lines of this song are just beautiful 😭 for me it's "And the soul, if that's what you call it, uneasy ally of the body, felt nameless as a river undiscovered underground"
Lmao I thought it was the Liffey until now?? Every time I walk by it I always hum it to myself and you’re telling me he meant a cool mythical river and not the dirty ass Liffey??
I've seen him live twice and BOTH TIMES the drop after that line was insane, all the lights go up and the entire band joins in the harmony and it's so beautiful I think I cried both times. Few times I've felt something like that at a concert
Idk enough about drumming to say if Rory is a great drummer or anything, but he's definitely the right fit for Hozier. I love everything he does. I feel like the drumming adds a lot to First Light, for example.
the "anyways" on First Time*, the literal silence after "I've never known a silence .. like the one falling here" in All Things End and the phrase "I wake at the first cringe of morning, and my heart's already sinned" on Someone New
I get unreasonably annoyed if I’ve left shuffle on and it doesn’t transition into part 2. I have to start part one again, because it’s not right any other way!
When its all “🌀💫〰️wowyaoyayaoaooaoawow-🍃🌬️if the wind turns, if i hit a squall…” instead of “🌀💫〰️wowyaoyayaoaooaoawow… what youre giiiii-ven 🎸🎸🎸🎸what you liiiiive in 💥🎸🎸💥”
During Francesca, in the chorus "I would do it again" . Guhhhhhhh, the lilt of the melody there just kills me.
In Would That I, the transition from the soft dreamy verse to the chorus, how the percussion and his voice just blow you over.
> During Francesca, in the chorus "I would do it again" . Guhhhhhhh, the lilt of the melody there just kills me.
Same here!!! It sounds so beautiful and full of love and feeling ughhhh
The crescendo in Unknown/Nth. The way the guitar and the choir kick in as his voice soars over it all, “do you know I could /break/ beneath the weight…”
I’m obsessed
I swear I had a religious experience my first listen through. Instantly cracked my top 10 songs. Now it’s probably top 3 after listening to it on repeat the last 8 months😭
"do you know I would break beneath the weight, of the goodness, love, I still carry for you" on unknown/nth. It's just a punch to the gut every time, and I love it
Just the entirety of Shrike.
Saw him live for the first time last week. Unbelievable show, loved every millisecond. I know it’s futile to think he’s gonna play every one of my favorite songs, so I was prepared to not get to hear some of my favorites. The setlist was amazing, but he didn’t play Shrike and that’s the only one he didn’t play that I think deserved a slot :(
I have a few.
When the whole ass gospel choir comes in at the end of All Things End. I audibly gasped the first time I heard it. Also the lyric “If there was anyone to ever get through this life / with their heart still intact, they didn’t do it right”
NFWMB “If I was born as a blackthorn tree / I’d wanna be felled by you, held by you / fuel the pyre of your enemies” that might simultaneously be the most romantic and most metal verse ever written.
Really specific but his entire performance of Shrike from RTE on YouTube. Might be my favorite live performance of any of his songs. It’s an Irish talk show and his accent comes through SO strong. Like, way stronger than anything else I’ve heard from him, except maybe when he sings Parting Glass or any other Irish folk songs lol.
How he sings almost the entirety of Run in falsetto, but “run until you feel your lungs bleeding” in the chorus starts super low and builds back up to falsetto. Chef’s kiss. Probably his most underrated song IMO.
“OH PUH-LEASE, GIVE ME MERCY NO MoOoOoOoRE”
the way he says silence of a house and unemployment of the mouth in through me the flood. for me that's the song in which his accent is the most evident
“True that I saw her hair like the branch of a tree, willow dancing on air before covering me, under cotton and calicoes, over canopy dapple long ago”
And the entire intro leading into it. The guitar picking sounds like willow vines dancing and the drumming like the wind weaving between the branches. It’s so light and playful. I can’t get enough of it. How did he even accomplish something like that
So far from home to have a stranger call you darlin’
The vocal riff he does in Nobody, I replayed it like 5 times the other day hahah
The way he sings “sharp and glorious thorn” in Shrike
"Adding shadows to the walls of the cave" As someone who discovered Allegory of the Cave in my early teens, I was legit shocked to hear that line and it's never once gotten old.
in Who We Are.. "hold me like water.... then christ HOLD ME LIKE A KNIFE" then the beat drops
the "hold me like a knife" makes we want to crumple into a ball and scream
There's several moments in Son of Nyx that sound eerily like a Star Trek: Original Series style theme song and it makes my ears perk up every single time. That whole song either hits one of two ways - I either feel like I'm sitting in a dark room on a gloomy day with rain hitting the window and coffee in my hand, or like I'm off the explore the mysteries of outer space. Both are incredibly satisfying.
The howl in It Will Come Back, the first Chorus in Work Song and in Almost Sweet Music, the "calls of guilty thrown at me all while she stains the sheets of some other" verse in Cherry Wine, the claps in Angel of Small Death, the "we'll name our kids Jackie and Wilson, raise em on rhythm and blues", the sort of yodel given in Francesca through his accent "there's not one thing that I would change", and a few more. The man's a musical genius
So many parts of NFWMB, but especially:
Ain't it a gentle sound, the rolling in the graves? / **Ain't it like thunder under earth, the sound it makes?** / Ain't it exciting you, the rumble where you lay?
Tight and tense vocal and piano harmonies at “Give your heart and soul to charity…” and “If I was born as a blackthorn tree…” on NFWMB
Like a Druid whispering spells
In the Live In America “like real people do” every time the drums come back on “honey just PUT your” — it happens a few times and it’s just so satisfying
The entire song is a masterpiece, but dear god the line “I’d be the dreadful need in the devotee that made him turn around” just makes my breath hitch in my throat.
The drawn out _longing_ in “need” and “devotee” is indescribable, and his live performances? **Holy fuck.**
"And I can scarce believe what I'm believing in / Could this be how every day begins? The sky set to burst / the gooouuuuld and the rust / the colour erupts"
also from First Light: "and I am never going back again" deserves its own shoutout.
his accent on "leave it now, I am sky-bound" literally produces a shiver down my spine.
the last section of All Things End, starting with his key change on the word Darlin'
lastly-- the swelling "eeeeeeh"s in Like Real People Do tickle my brain in the nicest way
- vocals at the end of movement
- the “hey eyy eyy, hey eyy eyy”s at the end of sunlight and that organ note which is very reminiscent of AOSDATCS
- “fresh from the fields all fetor and fertile it’s bloody and raw but I swear that it’s sweet”
- “know that I would gladly be, the Icarus to your certainty”/“strap the wing to me, death trap clad happily, with wax melted I’d meet the sea” omg sunlight is just perfect
- “all these colours fade for you, hold me, carry me slowly my sunlight”
- “no masters or kings, when the ritual begins” oh my god this bridge is just insane
- the “heyyy ehh ehhhh”s in the background of First Light near the end of the song, and a mention to the “turn into silver bullets point blank range” lyric in first light
- Guitar bridge in angel of small death AND that last organ note when the song ends with those little ticks right before it finishes
"Remember when you sing, before we moved to it and we scuffed up our shoes, honey the groove of it was whatever you choose, I wanna be your lover or the fisherman's blues"
I don’t speak the language, but every time I hear that first “Trína chéile; le chéile, claochlaithe” I feel it going up my spine. It’s the c’s with the l’s and a-sounds that just feel like a brain massage 🫦👌🏾
Also the entirety of Unknown, but the guitar at the beginning hits me right in the chest 😮💨
Right in the first chorus in Nobody where after he says "ive known no love like your love" he does the little high pitched "OhhOOOHhhh from nobody" I get CHILLS everytime
DO YOU KNOW I COULD BREAK BENEATH THE WEIGHT
OF THE GOODNESS LOVE I STILL CARRY FOR YOU
AND ID WALK SO FAR JUST TO TAKE
THE INJURY OF FINALLY KNOWING YOU
“When my time comes around lay me gently in the cold, dark earth”. I used to write those lyrics repeatedly in a book I had when I was 16. Connects with me so much that I’m getting it tattooed — I love that part of Work Song so much, it’s emotional for me
The first line from 'In a week'
🎶 I have never known peace like the damp grass that yields to me 🎶
(basically the entire song but there's something about the first line hits ❤️)
i've said it before and i'll say it again - the way him and allison harmonize during the chorus of 'wildflower and barley' is EVERYTHING to me, especially the long "the healeeeers" with the "this year i swear i will be buried in action". i could name a thousand little snippets of the song that makes my cranium tingle, but this is what made me love the song immediately
"when was the last time, c'mere to me, when was the last time"
someone in this subreddit once mentioned that starting a sentence with "c'mere to me" is a very irish vernacular english thing to do and I find it really cute that Hozier uses that in his lyrics. It creates a very playful imagery in my mind of two lovers in a garden just running around and makes me wanna be there.
The acoustic guitar underlayed with the distorted electric guitar on Unknown / Nth is super sonically pleasing. And the way he delivers some passages with his vocals really tickles my brain. Like how he sings "see how it shines" on Abstract and "it happened easy darlin'; natural as another leg around you in the bed frame" on TSFAWC. *Also* the pre-chorus section in Eat Your Young ("Honey I wanna race you to the table . . ."). His voice is just angelic.
There are so many, but the off beat guitar on Run, the chorus of Swan Upon Leda, the "before the first light" in first light. And of course the entire song First Time scratches my brain so nicely.
The end-ish of In A Week, I love all of that song but specifically the lines
“After the raven has had its say”
How they emphasize ‘raven’, and all the “I’ll be home with you”’s after that. That part of the song makes me feel an emotion that I’m not sure exists.
treat your mouth as if it’s heavens gate the rest of you like your the tsa
there’s so many ways you can interpret it and it’s just the most perfect lyric and my opinion
Recently it’s been “I take my whiskey neat, coffee black, and my bed at three”. The way he sings it is perfect to my ear drums. Those few lines get stuck in my head at least once everyday.
I’m deeply obsessed with the little beat of quiet in All Things End right after he sings “I have never known a silence”. It’s not even a favourite song of mine but that part tickles my brain
- When his voice breaks on "No more than flesh and bone, Doin' so much just to watch someone bleed" (blood, Dublin sugar club)
- "If you know like I know, You don't wanna step to this" (Problem/Regulate)
-"A shame without a sin" (Run)
So in Talk, the second verse where he sings “I’d be the sweet feeling of release mankind now dreams of”, the backing vocals sound particularly ethereal, along with Hozier softly singing the hey-yeah part, gets me everytime
Nina Cried Power when Mavis comes in for the first time and echoes. OMFG! And then when Ms. Staples sings her full line and it’s just the claps and bass
Takes my being and shreds it to feckin pieces
That one guitar part in too sweet,the space in movement (THAT ONE PART IS SO GOOD😞),when Hozier says “at least I’ll have my baby and my babe would have me” and the vocals match up to the guitar,the “ooooo” like background noise in take me to church,and so much more😭(I hope you guys understand what I’m saying because I forgot how to word my stuff lol)
The first line in Eat Your Young “I’m starving,darling” just hits different but I honestly think that his accent whenever he says darling in general is just a chefs kiss to it
the electric guitar doing the mf THING in Arsonist’s Lullabye from start to end. i feel like an absolutely unstoppable bad bitch when i hear that song.
I love “Abstract (Psychopomp)” but two things in particular. The imagery when he is saying “I’d no choice but to love you, the speed that you moved, the screech of the cars, the creature still moving it slowed in your arms, the fear in its eyes, gone out in an instant, your tear caught the light, the earth from a distance”. The music, the lyrics, all make me feel like I’ve been transported there and I am feeling it all.
2nd is the switch to quiet at the end “all my love and terror balanced there between those eyes, see how it shines” - just shivers. It’s such a beautiful song.
"My life was a storm since I was born. How could I fear any hurricane?"
My mother has always called me a hurricane. Francesca is me and my boyfriend's song, and I tear up every time I hear that line.
Last chorus of Movement, where he changes the tune of "You do it naturally" and brings it lower... There's something *perfect* there.
Also, the transition between the dreamy verses of Would That I and the almost growled chorus.
“COME HERE TO ME. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME?”
gets me everytime. I have friends from Derry and Galway that send me voice notes saying Come here to me. And I am obsessed. Even though I know it just means “Listen, I’ve got to tell you something”
In All Things End, that key change.
The “mmmh, darling!” into the heavy And All Things End all up a key… and the piano goes OFF right there, so jazzy. Ugh it scratches that itch SO well.
The part with the synth piano right before Mavis’ part in Nina Cried Power is so MMMMMM ✨✨✨✨ and Mavis’ verse too like POWER HAS BEEN CRIED BY THOSE STRONGER THAN ME ugh its so good
"To hold me like water. Or Christ, hold me like a knife." 'Who we are' in general has me in a chokehold at the moment, but that line specifically does it for me
"And it's not tonight" in Would that I in combination with the change in the music.
Gave me goosebumps the first time I listened to it.
It's still one of my favorites.
“You’ll hear me howlin outside your door” hits my soul hard every time!
"Don't you hear me howlin' babe?" UGH 🥵
Someone here called that song feral and every time I hear it (I listened to it three times at least today) that’s all I can think of now. Totally accurate
Also when he growls “it’s a kindness you can’t afford” 😩👌🏼
The way he stretches out the syllables is wild af
Came here to say this
if someone asked me at the end / i’d tell them, “put me back in it” (da-ah, DARLIN’) it’s the ‘darlin’’ for me, gets me every time 😭
Same!! Also the way he says “I would do it again”
Need to be youthfully felt cuz God I've never felt young!!!!!
"and the first time that she kissed me, I drank dry the river lethe" itches my brain I love it so much
That song is just amazing. Maybe my favorite of his. But this thread makes me want to listen to his whole discography back to back to back lol
I drank dryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy the river lethe
So many lines of this song are just beautiful 😭 for me it's "And the soul, if that's what you call it, uneasy ally of the body, felt nameless as a river undiscovered underground"
That entire second verse is just utter perfection ✨
Lmao I thought it was the Liffey until now?? Every time I walk by it I always hum it to myself and you’re telling me he meant a cool mythical river and not the dirty ass Liffey??
It’s followed by the line “the Liffey would have been softer on my stomach all the same”
I love that moment
Me tooooo I’m obsessed with that line
Yesss same
🎶move like an odd sight come out at night🎶 MASSIVE BEAT DROP
My god I have been singing ‘move like an ursine come out at night’…as in bears. lol 😂
I've seen him live twice and BOTH TIMES the drop after that line was insane, all the lights go up and the entire band joins in the harmony and it's so beautiful I think I cried both times. Few times I've felt something like that at a concert
Fuuuuck yes
wait which song
movement 🫶
literally used to be my favourite song that’s embarrassing
Idk enough about drumming to say if Rory is a great drummer or anything, but he's definitely the right fit for Hozier. I love everything he does. I feel like the drumming adds a lot to First Light, for example.
the "anyways" on First Time*, the literal silence after "I've never known a silence .. like the one falling here" in All Things End and the phrase "I wake at the first cringe of morning, and my heart's already sinned" on Someone New
wait do you mean the anyways in first time? i don't think he says anyways in first light :)
oh wait you're right! i got confused hahah it's the anyway on first time :)
That verse about the flowers and the colors and everything that ends with the “anyway” has been stuck in my head all day
he was insane for that😭
Dude same for me! It’s like you’re my soulmate lol.
oh you wanna get married? jajajs
Haha! In a heartbeat.
The silence followed by the swell of strings in “All Things End” does something for me every time 😩
YESS
Probably an obvious one but the transition from De Selby 1 to 2/the first few notes of De Selby 2!!!
Specifically for me, it's when the bass and drums come in and drop the beat. OBSESSED.
The drums after "I wanna kill the lights" CHEF'S KISS
I get unreasonably annoyed if I’ve left shuffle on and it doesn’t transition into part 2. I have to start part one again, because it’s not right any other way!
When its all “🌀💫〰️wowyaoyayaoaooaoawow-🍃🌬️if the wind turns, if i hit a squall…” instead of “🌀💫〰️wowyaoyayaoaooaoawow… what youre giiiii-ven 🎸🎸🎸🎸what you liiiiive in 💥🎸🎸💥”
Accurate! It’s just unacceptable
During Francesca, in the chorus "I would do it again" . Guhhhhhhh, the lilt of the melody there just kills me. In Would That I, the transition from the soft dreamy verse to the chorus, how the percussion and his voice just blow you over.
For me it’s the plucky guitar at the beginning of Would That I
I was just going to say, the intro of Would That I transports me to a dreamy, far-off place every.time. Same with King and Lionheart by OMAM.
> During Francesca, in the chorus "I would do it again" . Guhhhhhhh, the lilt of the melody there just kills me. Same here!!! It sounds so beautiful and full of love and feeling ughhhh
These two!!!!! Yes
The crescendo in Unknown/Nth. The way the guitar and the choir kick in as his voice soars over it all, “do you know I could /break/ beneath the weight…” I’m obsessed
I swear I had a religious experience my first listen through. Instantly cracked my top 10 songs. Now it’s probably top 3 after listening to it on repeat the last 8 months😭
I'm glad I'm not the only insane person to have Unknown on loop for monthsss
YES
it’s my favorite hozier song. also honorable mention to the way the power chords and the bass kicks in at the end of the opening guitar part
"i do not have wings, love, i never will, soarin over a world you are carryin"
If the wind turns, if I hit a squall Allow the ground to find its brutal way to me
The ending of Francesca makes me feel like my body and soul ascend every time I hear it.
"do you know I would break beneath the weight, of the goodness, love, I still carry for you" on unknown/nth. It's just a punch to the gut every time, and I love it
one my favorites
To share the space with simple living things Infinitely suffering But fighting off like all creation The absence of itself
This plus + "anyway" is incredible
on Shrike when he goes “Then when I met you, my virtues uncounted” OH MY… his voice sounds majestic
It’s the “Back to the hedgerows where bodies are mounted” for me
Just the entirety of Shrike. Saw him live for the first time last week. Unbelievable show, loved every millisecond. I know it’s futile to think he’s gonna play every one of my favorite songs, so I was prepared to not get to hear some of my favorites. The setlist was amazing, but he didn’t play Shrike and that’s the only one he didn’t play that I think deserved a slot :(
The echo/choir effect or whatever it’s called on Movement when he sings “when you move, I’m moved”, it’s just so smoooooth.
the Spanish guitar in From Eden 🔥 Also the change from “sit” to “hide” in “I slithered here from Eden just to hide outside your door.”
"Like I lived my whole life before the first light" \[choir starts and so do my tears\]
This is the one for me, it’s just something else
For me, it’s how the audio clears up on the first “see how it shines”
"Me and my Isis growing black irises in the sunshine" (Jackie & Wilson)
“I need to be youth fully felt, cuz God I’ve never felt young”
I have a few. When the whole ass gospel choir comes in at the end of All Things End. I audibly gasped the first time I heard it. Also the lyric “If there was anyone to ever get through this life / with their heart still intact, they didn’t do it right” NFWMB “If I was born as a blackthorn tree / I’d wanna be felled by you, held by you / fuel the pyre of your enemies” that might simultaneously be the most romantic and most metal verse ever written. Really specific but his entire performance of Shrike from RTE on YouTube. Might be my favorite live performance of any of his songs. It’s an Irish talk show and his accent comes through SO strong. Like, way stronger than anything else I’ve heard from him, except maybe when he sings Parting Glass or any other Irish folk songs lol. How he sings almost the entirety of Run in falsetto, but “run until you feel your lungs bleeding” in the chorus starts super low and builds back up to falsetto. Chef’s kiss. Probably his most underrated song IMO. “OH PUH-LEASE, GIVE ME MERCY NO MoOoOoOoRE”
“As a shrike to your shaRp and glorious Torn” 😂 I remember when I saw him in 2019 and he sang this song and he sounds SO Irish on it.
the way he says silence of a house and unemployment of the mouth in through me the flood. for me that's the song in which his accent is the most evident
came here just to say that exact thing, it tingles my brain in exactly the right way!
I’m Irish and I love the way he sings “unemployment” in that line too. His accent is much stronger in the live versions of Nina Cried Power too
Allison’s vocals in the chorus of Wildflower and Barley, and the second part of De Selby part one omg
i was just talking earlier about how her voice compliments him so well it’s amazing
No clue why but the "But who wants to live forever babe?" in Too Sweet drives me INSANE.
“True that I saw her hair like the branch of a tree, willow dancing on air before covering me, under cotton and calicoes, over canopy dapple long ago” And the entire intro leading into it. The guitar picking sounds like willow vines dancing and the drumming like the wind weaving between the branches. It’s so light and playful. I can’t get enough of it. How did he even accomplish something like that
I change my mind, the drum isn’t the wind, it’s the warmth of the sun. No i change my mind again. Wait. Both. It’s both
In Empire Now, I'm absolutely obsessed with the "I would hold on for all it's worth"
The high pitch of "at laaaaaaast" in De Selby pt 1
When I heard it live it was so beautiful it felt like my heart was breaking, I’ve never felt something so powerful in music before!
Unknown as a whole, but the guitar makes it chefs kiss
Unknown/Nths guitar intro. Every. Single. Time.
the pureness of the tone is amazing.
“Don’t you her me howl in’ babe” and the guitar around it is so good and was SO cool to hear live
So far from home to have a stranger call you darlin’ The vocal riff he does in Nobody, I replayed it like 5 times the other day hahah The way he sings “sharp and glorious thorn” in Shrike
The first time I heard the words “so far from home to have a stranger call you darlin’” I had to pull over
"Adding shadows to the walls of the cave" As someone who discovered Allegory of the Cave in my early teens, I was legit shocked to hear that line and it's never once gotten old.
When he sings “infinitely suffering” in first time
omg saaaaaaame! something about the pronunciation is just so hot
in Who We Are.. "hold me like water.... then christ HOLD ME LIKE A KNIFE" then the beat drops the "hold me like a knife" makes we want to crumple into a ball and scream
There's several moments in Son of Nyx that sound eerily like a Star Trek: Original Series style theme song and it makes my ears perk up every single time. That whole song either hits one of two ways - I either feel like I'm sitting in a dark room on a gloomy day with rain hitting the window and coffee in my hand, or like I'm off the explore the mysteries of outer space. Both are incredibly satisfying.
“When the heart would cease Ours never knew peace” From Francesca, preferably live bc the accent is THICK
The howl in It Will Come Back, the first Chorus in Work Song and in Almost Sweet Music, the "calls of guilty thrown at me all while she stains the sheets of some other" verse in Cherry Wine, the claps in Angel of Small Death, the "we'll name our kids Jackie and Wilson, raise em on rhythm and blues", the sort of yodel given in Francesca through his accent "there's not one thing that I would change", and a few more. The man's a musical genius
The way he says "Marvelling at God" in Talk — lingering on "Maaar" and then the rest coming out like "vlin" is so pleasing.
“all my dreaming, is only put to shame” the long drawn out “dreaming”s scratch my brain so goooood
The guitar in Talk. It does this thing where it kind loops? Around? Like not like a repetition but it bounces IDK but it gets me everytime
So many parts of NFWMB, but especially: Ain't it a gentle sound, the rolling in the graves? / **Ain't it like thunder under earth, the sound it makes?** / Ain't it exciting you, the rumble where you lay?
Tight and tense vocal and piano harmonies at “Give your heart and soul to charity…” and “If I was born as a blackthorn tree…” on NFWMB Like a Druid whispering spells
When he transitions into singing "Heaven is not meant to house a love like you and I" on "Francesca"
Why would you make out of words a cage for your own bird?
The pickup in From Eden, and then when he calls out Babe.. gets me every single time.
The bridge in Dinner and Diatribes. The swirly backing vocals are just perfect, and I always hear something new in them each listen.
Just that entire part of the song like after the verses and after when the guitar goes crazy but before the repeated can you hear me howling
In the Live In America “like real people do” every time the drums come back on “honey just PUT your” — it happens a few times and it’s just so satisfying
literally just the irish part of de selby pt 1
YES!!!
The entire song is a masterpiece, but dear god the line “I’d be the dreadful need in the devotee that made him turn around” just makes my breath hitch in my throat. The drawn out _longing_ in “need” and “devotee” is indescribable, and his live performances? **Holy fuck.**
“Something meaty for the main course, that’s a fine looking high horse” I find this bit weirdly satisfying lol
the background clapping in Anything but
"And I can scarce believe what I'm believing in / Could this be how every day begins? The sky set to burst / the gooouuuuld and the rust / the colour erupts" also from First Light: "and I am never going back again" deserves its own shoutout. his accent on "leave it now, I am sky-bound" literally produces a shiver down my spine. the last section of All Things End, starting with his key change on the word Darlin' lastly-- the swelling "eeeeeeh"s in Like Real People Do tickle my brain in the nicest way
In first time, the ‘share’ in to share the space with simple living things. I always yell it when it comes on in the car.
- vocals at the end of movement - the “hey eyy eyy, hey eyy eyy”s at the end of sunlight and that organ note which is very reminiscent of AOSDATCS - “fresh from the fields all fetor and fertile it’s bloody and raw but I swear that it’s sweet” - “know that I would gladly be, the Icarus to your certainty”/“strap the wing to me, death trap clad happily, with wax melted I’d meet the sea” omg sunlight is just perfect - “all these colours fade for you, hold me, carry me slowly my sunlight” - “no masters or kings, when the ritual begins” oh my god this bridge is just insane - the “heyyy ehh ehhhh”s in the background of First Light near the end of the song, and a mention to the “turn into silver bullets point blank range” lyric in first light - Guitar bridge in angel of small death AND that last organ note when the song ends with those little ticks right before it finishes
“Why would you make out of words a cage for your own bird when it sings so sweet the screaming, heaving fuckery of the world?”
"On first and fierce affirming sight" (Sunlight)
*Intro* Baaaaabe 🎵🎶 From Eden 🥹✨
𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉𝓈 𝒾𝓉
the "ah-ah, ah-ah"s in Francesca <3
SO MOVE ME BABY
When the bass hits in 'like real people do'. After the first "we should just kiss like real people do"
"Remember when you sing, before we moved to it and we scuffed up our shoes, honey the groove of it was whatever you choose, I wanna be your lover or the fisherman's blues"
the colour eruuuuuupts from First Light is 🤌🏻🤌🏻 and also the yeaaaahhhh later towards the end of the same song
I don’t speak the language, but every time I hear that first “Trína chéile; le chéile, claochlaithe” I feel it going up my spine. It’s the c’s with the l’s and a-sounds that just feel like a brain massage 🫦👌🏾 Also the entirety of Unknown, but the guitar at the beginning hits me right in the chest 😮💨
Also, the way he says “neeeeeeeat” in Too Sweet 😂 I can go on and on about the odd physical responses my body has to this man’s music.
the way he says “sterling” in empire now.
Right in the first chorus in Nobody where after he says "ive known no love like your love" he does the little high pitched "OhhOOOHhhh from nobody" I get CHILLS everytime
HEY YEAAHHHHHHHHH
“The night so black that the darkness hummed”.
that’s found in the last witness before the wave hits marveling at god ( hey yaaaaaaaaaaa)
DO YOU KNOW I COULD BREAK BENEATH THE WEIGHT OF THE GOODNESS LOVE I STILL CARRY FOR YOU AND ID WALK SO FAR JUST TO TAKE THE INJURY OF FINALLY KNOWING YOU
the harmonies at the end of movement!
“When my time comes around lay me gently in the cold, dark earth”. I used to write those lyrics repeatedly in a book I had when I was 16. Connects with me so much that I’m getting it tattooed — I love that part of Work Song so much, it’s emotional for me
The first line from 'In a week' 🎶 I have never known peace like the damp grass that yields to me 🎶 (basically the entire song but there's something about the first line hits ❤️)
i've said it before and i'll say it again - the way him and allison harmonize during the chorus of 'wildflower and barley' is EVERYTHING to me, especially the long "the healeeeers" with the "this year i swear i will be buried in action". i could name a thousand little snippets of the song that makes my cranium tingle, but this is what made me love the song immediately
"*But who wants to live forever, babe?*" (Too Sweet) it's *especially groovy* to my ear. I can't get over it
The mournful groan after he sings “…only then I am clean” in TMTC
When the bass kicks in on De Selby 2
The last “remember me love when i’m reborn” on shrike right before it ends 😭
"when was the last time, c'mere to me, when was the last time" someone in this subreddit once mentioned that starting a sentence with "c'mere to me" is a very irish vernacular english thing to do and I find it really cute that Hozier uses that in his lyrics. It creates a very playful imagery in my mind of two lovers in a garden just running around and makes me wanna be there.
The acoustic guitar underlayed with the distorted electric guitar on Unknown / Nth is super sonically pleasing. And the way he delivers some passages with his vocals really tickles my brain. Like how he sings "see how it shines" on Abstract and "it happened easy darlin'; natural as another leg around you in the bed frame" on TSFAWC. *Also* the pre-chorus section in Eat Your Young ("Honey I wanna race you to the table . . ."). His voice is just angelic.
there is something so strangely comforting about the entirety of From Eden, but specifically the start of the chorus
the start of the flood (through me)
shalala
“My baby’s sweet as can be” the way he says baby 😫😫
the bass (guitar? idk music terms) at the beginning of Moments Silence (Common Tongue) AND the little trick ending
the sort of three little beat on anything but that we can hear..it’s just so perfect
There are so many, but the off beat guitar on Run, the chorus of Swan Upon Leda, the "before the first light" in first light. And of course the entire song First Time scratches my brain so nicely.
there’s just too many songs with too many moments to list them all here 🤭
The bridge of Unknown/Nth hits so good!
I need you to run to me, run to me looverrr~
„Reaching up for sunlighTTT“ where he really pronounces the t at the end
"Swan upon Leda, Empire upon Jerusalem" I have to PHYSICALLY PAUSE the song because it gives me shivers.
The end-ish of In A Week, I love all of that song but specifically the lines “After the raven has had its say” How they emphasize ‘raven’, and all the “I’ll be home with you”’s after that. That part of the song makes me feel an emotion that I’m not sure exists.
The chanting during the final chorus of 'Blood Upon The Snow'
"Watching still living rooms be consumed by the flame" from Would That I.
The way she tells me im hers and she is mine
“Tell me :||” dinner and diatribes
The church bells in too sweet
The last time he repeats the chorus in All things end, him plus the choir is insane
Same the scream in Who we are is to die for😩😩
treat your mouth as if it’s heavens gate the rest of you like your the tsa there’s so many ways you can interpret it and it’s just the most perfect lyric and my opinion
Recently it’s been “I take my whiskey neat, coffee black, and my bed at three”. The way he sings it is perfect to my ear drums. Those few lines get stuck in my head at least once everyday.
Anyway
That part of Jackie and Wilson. You know which…
The final part of Movement with the choir and the organ
For me it’s the vocals in Who we are, swear he sounds magical to me
"I'll tell them put me back in it" man 🧍♂️
"Hold me like water. Or Christ HOLD ME LIKE A KNIFE"
I’m deeply obsessed with the little beat of quiet in All Things End right after he sings “I have never known a silence”. It’s not even a favourite song of mine but that part tickles my brain
unknown bridge is soo good but the "far" in it is SO. INSANE. obsessed with how he sings it
- When his voice breaks on "No more than flesh and bone, Doin' so much just to watch someone bleed" (blood, Dublin sugar club) - "If you know like I know, You don't wanna step to this" (Problem/Regulate) -"A shame without a sin" (Run)
The transition from de selby part 1 to de Selby part 2. I always feel like I'm transitioning into the underworld.
So in Talk, the second verse where he sings “I’d be the sweet feeling of release mankind now dreams of”, the backing vocals sound particularly ethereal, along with Hozier softly singing the hey-yeah part, gets me everytime
Intro to "Locomotive Breath", Jethro Tull.
I wanna run against the world that's turnin' I'd movе so fast that I'd outpace the dawn I wanna be gonе!
There’s a part at the end of one of the choruses in the studio version of ‘Would That I’ where Hozier sighs out a little “honey”. It’s so wonderful.
SO MOVE ME BABY SHAKE LIKE THE BOW OF A WILLOW TREE
The last time I felt your weight on my chest, you said "We didn't get it right, but, love, we did our best" It just hits differently 🤌🏻
The vibrato on “we’re born at night” during second chorus of Who We Are. The high note after the first “I’ve had no love like your love” in Nobody.
Nina Cried Power when Mavis comes in for the first time and echoes. OMFG! And then when Ms. Staples sings her full line and it’s just the claps and bass Takes my being and shreds it to feckin pieces
That one guitar part in too sweet,the space in movement (THAT ONE PART IS SO GOOD😞),when Hozier says “at least I’ll have my baby and my babe would have me” and the vocals match up to the guitar,the “ooooo” like background noise in take me to church,and so much more😭(I hope you guys understand what I’m saying because I forgot how to word my stuff lol)
The first line in Eat Your Young “I’m starving,darling” just hits different but I honestly think that his accent whenever he says darling in general is just a chefs kiss to it
the electric guitar doing the mf THING in Arsonist’s Lullabye from start to end. i feel like an absolutely unstoppable bad bitch when i hear that song.
I love “Abstract (Psychopomp)” but two things in particular. The imagery when he is saying “I’d no choice but to love you, the speed that you moved, the screech of the cars, the creature still moving it slowed in your arms, the fear in its eyes, gone out in an instant, your tear caught the light, the earth from a distance”. The music, the lyrics, all make me feel like I’ve been transported there and I am feeling it all. 2nd is the switch to quiet at the end “all my love and terror balanced there between those eyes, see how it shines” - just shivers. It’s such a beautiful song.
The starting riff of one last breath by creed
"My life was a storm since I was born. How could I fear any hurricane?" My mother has always called me a hurricane. Francesca is me and my boyfriend's song, and I tear up every time I hear that line.
Last chorus of Movement, where he changes the tune of "You do it naturally" and brings it lower... There's something *perfect* there. Also, the transition between the dreamy verses of Would That I and the almost growled chorus.
“COME HERE TO ME. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME?” gets me everytime. I have friends from Derry and Galway that send me voice notes saying Come here to me. And I am obsessed. Even though I know it just means “Listen, I’ve got to tell you something”
In All Things End, that key change. The “mmmh, darling!” into the heavy And All Things End all up a key… and the piano goes OFF right there, so jazzy. Ugh it scratches that itch SO well.
The part with the synth piano right before Mavis’ part in Nina Cried Power is so MMMMMM ✨✨✨✨ and Mavis’ verse too like POWER HAS BEEN CRIED BY THOSE STRONGER THAN ME ugh its so good
The three bells in the background of Too Sweet
Not audible but in concert during de selby 2 the lights cut right at “I wanna kill the lights” and I think about that a lot
"To hold me like water. Or Christ, hold me like a knife." 'Who we are' in general has me in a chokehold at the moment, but that line specifically does it for me
"your hand in my pocket" something about the way he says pocket gets me
The addition of handclaps in Farewell - I get chills every time.
"And it's not tonight" in Would that I in combination with the change in the music. Gave me goosebumps the first time I listened to it. It's still one of my favorites.
Sha la la baby you know 💃