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Genre: Music
Date of upload: Mar 12, 2021 ^^
Rating : 4.967 (1,053/126,845 LTDR)
RYD date created : 2022-04-09T14:48:47.114878Z
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
I can not even imagine what he must have felt when he finished writing this song. He must have known then that it is a masterpiece. The lyrics alone are pure genius poetry, and then there's the music... I listen to this song over and over again in awe. Watching him sing it he seems to go to a higher plane. How he appears to just stand there and sing it, and yet that voice and emotion rip everything apart. Hozier is beyond brilliant.
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My lover's got humor
She's the giggle at a funeral
Knows everybody's disapproval
I should've worshiped her sooner
If the Heavens ever did speak
She's the last true mouthpiece
Every Sunday's getting more bleak
A fresh poison each week
"We were born sick", you heard them say it
My church offers no absolutes
She tells me, "Worship in the bedroom"
The only Heaven I'll be sent to
Is when I'm alone with you
I was born sick, but I love it
Command me to be well
A-, Amen, Amen, Amen
Take me to church
I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
I'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife
Offer me that deathless death
Good God, let me give you my life
Take me to church
I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
I'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife
Offer me that deathless death
Good God, let me give you my life
If I'm a pagan of the good times
My lover's the sunlight
To keep the Goddess on my side
She demands a sacrifice
Drain the whole sea
Get something shiny
Something meaty for the main course
That's a fine looking high horse
What you got in the stable?
We've a lot of starving faithful
That looks tasty
That looks plenty
This is hungry work
Take me to church
I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
I'll tell you my sins so you can sharpen your knife
Offer me my deathless death
Good God, let me give you my life
Take me to church
I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
I'll tell you my sins so you can sharpen your knife
Offer me my deathless death
Good God, let me give you my life
No masters or kings when the ritual begins
There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin
In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene
Only then I am human
Only then I am clean
Oh, oh, Amen, Amen, Amen
Take me to church
I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
I'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife
Offer me that deathless death
Good God, let me give you my life
Take me to church
I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
I'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife
Offer me that deathless death
Good God, let me give you my life
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This version sounds more just depressed, lost and deadly almost the the original version. There is a certain mourning to it, like he’s talking about the relationship in past tense, that the lover has died. Like he wants to die with them. Which is a stark contrast to the original which sounds like late night sneak away and a sinful pleasure. It sounds so full of passion and life and adrenaline. I think that this is why Hoizer is amazing, because he can take the same song, same lyrics and same genre and completely change the underlying tones of the music.
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@laserqueencharlie
3 years ago
i swear, i could listen to 15 different versions of this man singing this song and fall in love with every single one over an over again.
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