thinking about “i sneak out to the garden to see you” and “i snuck in through the garden gate every night that summer just to seal my fate” and “i’m standing there on a balcony in summer air” and “i’m always waiting for you to be waiting below” and “i love you and that’s all i really know” and “i love you ain’t that the worst thing you ever heard?” and “we keep quiet cause we’re dead if they knew” and “i don’t wanna keep secrets just to keep you” and “i was crying on the staircase” and “i cried like a baby coming home from the bar”
“Put him on his knees give him something to believe in” has the exact same energy and depth of meaning as anything Hozier puts out on the regular but since it’s sung by Megan Thee Stallion no one takes it seriously. In this essay I will-