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Genre: Music
Date of upload: Feb 13, 2016 ^^
Rating : 4.931 (7,884/450,391 LTDR)
RYD date created : 2022-04-09T19:39:16.145813Z
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
The way he comes up when he sees her staring at her black-eyed reflection just to kiss and cover her eye with her hair and walk away is such an intimate representation of abuse. The way someone will try to suck you back in with love and forgive the damage, but thereās no erasing the trauma.
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I just wanna add to my fellow emotionally abused victims out there who are still going through or who has been through it. your scars may not be visible to the naked eye but ik it's there and they are just as valid. don't ever let anyone tell you it's not. emotional abusers should not get a pass just because they never laid a hand on you. abuse is abuse.
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Oh god, the fear in her eyes at 2:28 breaks my heart. She doesnāt know if heāll kiss her or hit her. So touching.
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I literally cried. Not because of abuse on my own. I thought about my lovely mother, my angel. I can't imagine the abuse she went through with her first husband, who thank fuck ain't my father and neither did I ever met him. Poor family, my young and beautiful mom, her husband who is secretly a demon. He would kick her with his feet until he thought she died. Then he would put water on her to wake her up. He was alcoholic and even abused his own mother. My mom got pregnant with two kids, the first one she aborted, the second one died in her stomach. I was born 10 years after the second one. She is way too good for me, I am extremely grateful and lucky for calling this godlike woman my mother, my everything. I still cry a lot while I wrote this comment. I love you mama, more than anything else in the world.ā¤
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I used to love this song. Itās so different listening to it now after being in a relationship with domestic violence. Itās like a drug. He hurt me so much but those little moment where I just got to lay in his arms and looks him and feel lovedā¦.I felt like it was all worth it. That the price for love was pain. Idk how someone I love so much could hurt me so badly. Iāll never understand. Getting free is the only way.
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The fear in her eyes at 2:28, before he kisses her is just heartbreaking. It lasts a few seconds but it hurts. Haven't been moved by a music video like this, before.
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[Verse 1]
Her eyes and words are so icy
Oh, but she burns
Like rum on a fire
Hot and fast and angry as she can be
I walk my days on a wire
[Pre-Chorus 1]
It looks ugly, but it's clean
Oh mama, don't fuss over me
[Chorus]
The way she tells me I'm hers and she is mine
Open hand or closed fist would be fine
The blood is rare and sweet as cherry wine
[Verse 2]
Calls of guilty thrown at me, all while she stains
The sheets of some other
Thrown at me so powerfully, just like she throws
With the arm of her brother
[Pre-Chorus 2]
But I want it, it's a crime
That she's not around most of the time
[Chorus 2]
The way she shows me I'm hers and she is mine
Open hand or closed fist would be fine
The blood is rare and sweet as cherry wine
[Verse 3]
Her fight and fury's fiery
Oh, but she looks
Like sleep to the freezing
Sweet and right and merciful, I'm all but washed
In the tide of her breathing
[Pre-Chorus 3]
And it's worth it, it's divine
I have this some of the time
[Chorus 2]
The way she shows me I'm hers and she is mine
Open hand or closed fist would be fine
The blood is rare and sweet as cherry wine
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I love how thereās this contrast between the tone of the song and its subject. Like we all know Hozier can write a damn good sorrowful song, but for this topic he chooses not to. It almost feels like a sweet love song to slow dance to if you donāt consider the lyrics. Itās interesting because thatās how it might be for someone in an abusive relationship. Thereās all these joyful and romantic moments, but only if you ignore whatās really going on.
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This shot (2:24) is fascinating in the way that she is alone in the center and she has the two reflections looking back at the center. One reflection with darker light and showing her bruised eye and the other with light and clear. The two sides that complete her side of fhe relationship. Another thing is (and this is a stretch) the mirror and how you can adjust it to different angles to see what you want to see or simply close them and block it out. This is my interpretation, that's what makes art and music powerful to the artist and audience.
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@ginger2153
7 months ago
This song makes me cry every time because itās about abuse, but itās STILL a love song, and that combination of feelings is absolutely unbearable if youāve ever been there.
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