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I, Carrion (Icarian) - Hozier
"And though I burn how could I fall? when I am lifted by every word you say to me. If anything could fall at all, it's the world that falls away from me."
first light being in the same album as i carrion (icarian) where he compares his lover to the sun and shows how he's willing to die and fall like icarus if it's for them, and first light as he said is about "having a new relationship with light" and showing that there is a diferent type of light out there and you can be light and the world can be light and you can be able to love and not fall for it, you can love alive and there is more ways of living than loving and after it you will never be the same but you are still alive, in this essay i will-
okay. i hope that wasn’t too much of a spoiler? basically rambling how the sounds feel lol. son of nyx has a special home in my heart. i already know this album is going to be my top listen for the year.
thank you so much hozier for this absolutely beautiful masterpiece. unreal unearth is so thought out and just so amazing. absolutely amazing. p.s please come to australia sometime!! queensland is nice! :) as is the rest of our lovely country <3
DE SELBY PART ONE i’m actual sobbing it’s so angelic and beautiful and melancholic almost? T^T omg ITS ABSOLUTELY POETRY im actually sobbing rn THE IRISH!!!!! HES SINGING IN IRISH!!!! OMGOMGOMG it’s beautiful and the haunting ending T^T
I'll absolutely do a more in depth and cohesive look through this song but I adore I, Carrion and I need to talk about it.
The way Hozier manages to convey the feeling of wonder and freedom and newness of Icarus raking to the skies. The tragedy of Icarus' beloved being his own undoing? The way Icarus so easily accepts his end, as if he can die happily having now known the love he's never before had? The desperation in the way Icarus prays that should he fall, he is still able to cling to his love til the very end?
And God this bridge? The way Icarus acknowledges that he isn't and never could be apart of the world he's known to love. Allow the ground to find its brutal way to me? You expect me to be normal after hearing that?
Listening to Hozier is all fun and games until he sings "I do not have wings, love, I never will" and suddenly you're ten years old again. Just a ten year old Catholic school girl terrified of hell and desperately trying to be good enough for heaven.