Then when I met you,
my virtues uncounted
All of my goodness
is goin' with you now
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Announcement
Hey so my follower base is growing...
And I promise this is a genuine announcement. If I wanted to do, say, another writing challenge for 150 followers (bc how cool would that be?!), what songs remind you of LotR/The Hobbit or specific characters? Could be the sound, the lyrics describing a character arc, a general vibe. Comment or reblog and let me know!
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I couldn't whisper when you needed it shouted
When I met you, my virtues uncounted
All of my goodness is goin' with you now
I was housed by your warmth
Thus transformed
Remember me, love, when I'm reborn as the shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn
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also maybe it's just my old-ass guitar and the way the low string rattles when it's tuned so low but the guitar part almost sounds like a bagpipes drone when I play it sometimes
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remember me, love, when i'm reborn
as the shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn
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unknown/nth // shrike
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modern merthur reunion because they deserve to be together and happy again
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Hozier performing Shrike on The Late Late Show
❝ I couldn't utter my love when it counted
ah, but I'm singing like a bird 'bout it now ❞
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Jane Austen, Emma
Sufjan Stevens, Futile Devices
Virginia Woolf, The Letters of Virginia Woolf
Hozier, Shrike
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Sierra DeMulder, Your Love Finds Its Way Back
Nizar Qabbani
“What I feel for you can’t be conveyed in phrasal combinations; It either screams out loud or stays painfully silent but I promise — it beats words. It beats worlds.”
Katherine Mansfield
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What I love about hozier's music is that, to me, a lot of his songs aren't instant hits - instead, they grow on me. And they grow HARD. Often it will take me multiple replays to truly get a song and for things to just click, especially when it comes to the lyrics. I'll be listening to a song I had thought sounded alright but that I hadn't been vibing with completely for the 11th time, and suddendly a specific lyric will sink in and make so much fucking sense, and I will feel that in my soul -- me actively falling in love with it.
"Shrike" was one of those songs for me. I just couldn't really get why so many fans were so attached to that song specifically at first. Or at the first ten times I listened to it. But then at some point, I just became utterly obsessed. And now it's one of my favorites and makes me so emotional? It's crazy.
Are all hozier songs enchanted? Is he casting a spell on me with every listen? Absolutely magical.
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HOZIER DID NOT WRITE “From Eden” JUST TO BE CALLED THE TAKE ME TO CHURCH GUY
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As the shrike to your sharp
And glorious thorn
Posting January's postcard early bc I'm REALLY happy with how it turned out! This mini print will be sent to Lucky and Love Letter tiers next month <3
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the words hung above, but never would form.
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HAPPY WASTELAND, BABY! DELUXE TO THOSE WHO CELEBRATE!!!
spoiler free rambling below the cut
I was one of the few people who was lucky enough to have avoided any spoilers from this song when it was leaked right after the NYC listening party- it was actually one of the main reason why I avoided tiktok and twitter for a while... yall. I prepared myself for this song BUT. IT REALLY DIDN'T HELP. I AM SO VERY UNWELL.
It fits SO PERFECTLY with the theme of Wasteland, Baby! and I want to throw hands with Andrew for just letting this sit in a folder in a laptop but I can forgive him because it's out now.
I LOVE that it sounds imperfect, like he gets into these off-kilter flows and runs, but it's deliberate?!! AND IT WORKS WELL.
2019 Hozier, YOUR PEN GAME!?!?!!! SHOULD BE ILLEGAL IT IS SO GOOD. i need to process these lyrics more tomorrow when I'm more awake cuz OH BUDDY it hurts.
Wasteland, Baby! is such a beautiful album and I hope his new fans will get to appreciate it just as much as Unreal Unearth: Unheard now that the deluxe/special edition is here
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