Hozier at Trinity College talking to The Phil (The University Philosophical Society) as part of the Activist Festival hosted by Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union, he also received the Gold Medal of Honorary Patronage, March 12th 2016
Wildflower and Barley is one of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard.
I relate to it from the perspective of a disabled person, which is certainly not what he had in mind writing it but the grief and loss of normal life is something many of us knew well before the pandemic hit.
That longing to still feel useful and valued even when you no longer feel you have anything to offer.
When your body doesn’t move as it once did and you ache to just use it fully.
When the world around you has changed dramatically. When you become part of a community that is constantly in mourning.