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- cherry wine is about domestic abuse. it’s now called a cute proposal song.
- too sweet is about seizing the day and ignoring healthy habits in favor of having more fun with unhealthy ones. he’s actively critical of himself in the song. it’s now called a song about thinking you’re superior for drinking black coffee.
- take me to church is about worship as a metaphor for sex. it’s called a religious song.
- eat your young is a song about war and political greed. it’s called a song about sex.
- now, the strongly political message of nobody’s soldier is being ignored in favor of calling it a metaphor for hozier’s relationship with his fans.
when are we going to stop simplifying hozier’s music down to cute little cottagecore bogman forest music? maybe you dont want to hear this but i don’t care. quit listening to hozier for the aesthetic. there’s a reason why empire now, foreigner’s god, butchered tongue, etc. songs with unignorable political messages are among his least popular songs.
laundry for self.
fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s laundry for self.
[text id: oh, how i wish i could admire beauty without loathing myself. / what soap can melt this stain?/ what water can rinse this dirt?]
fatima aamer bilal, from my back, your knife.
[text id: i thought the craft of treachery was unknown to you.]
fatima aamer bilal, from wounding is also touch.
[text id: this house is haunted by its owner, no wonder why nobody stays.]
fatima aamer bilal, from weeping flesh above the ground.
[text id: your name has always been on the tip of my tongue, maybe this is why i choke every time i try to speak / or even breathe.]
fatima aamer bilal, poster for even flesh eaters don’t want me.
fatima aamer bilal, poster for my heart has claws.
fatima aamer bilal, from days where my whole world is my bed.
[text id: everything in me is tired.]
i am hard to love. i am sorry.
fatima aamer bilal, from her garden yearns more for visitors than water.
romance? like in those hozier songs? you know that’s not real, right?
But I am home wherever you are near
There's no life in anything when you're not here
Love in the Time of Socialism by Yellow House, 2017
Lol that's really accurate though 😅
oh hey I’m back with uhh…more. hopefully I don’t call u out too much this time