 Genius Lyrics
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The Oh Hellos – Mvmt I, "Rejoice! Rejoice!"
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O come, o come Emmanuel / And ransom captive Israel / Who mourns in lonely exile here / Until the Son of God appear / O come, Thou Rod of Jesse, free / Thine own from Satan's
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The Oh Hellos – Passerine
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The song is titled “Passerine”, which is a relatively ambiguous term. The category of passerine includes any bird with feet built to be able to perch, including both birds of prey
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The Oh Hellos – I Have Made Mistakes
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“I Have Made Mistakes” is song 9 from the album “Through the Deep, Dark Valley”.
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The Oh Hellos – Constellations
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Notos explores the fallibility of our own ideas:
Thematically, the series considers the question: “Where did our ideas come from?” Notos recounts a time when the duo weren’t even
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The Oh Hellos – Eurus
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Spinning that stone uphill again / Like atonement for a bygone sin / Under the weight of it, my bones / Are cracking like a dry branch in a westward wind / But Zeus and his
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The Oh Hellos – In Memoriam
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“In Memorium” is the last in a four-song series about the prodigal son as told in Luke 15. It explores the son’s return to his father in verses 17-24, focusing on the the son’s
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The Oh Hellos – Like the Dawn
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“Like the Dawn” is the second song from the album “Through the Deep, Dark Valley” (2012).
Although sung by a woman (Maggie Heath), the narrator is Adam (the first human created by
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The Oh Hellos – Boreas
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Boreas is the titular song in the EP “Boreas”, initially released as a single on the 21st of August 2020. While the other Greek wind EPs by The Oh Hellos also followed the
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The Oh Hellos – Dear Wormwood
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In CS Lewis “The Screwtape Letters” Wormwood is the junior demon charged with tempting “The Patient”. Following his encounter with the King (in the previous songs) the protagonist
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The Oh Hellos – Glowing
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In the end, I’m feeling / More and more / There won’t be any end / No ice walls / No frozen firmament / To clearly define / The corners and lines / Of a divine invention / So paper
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The Oh Hellos – Thus Always To Tyrants
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“Thus Always to Tyrants” (or “Sic semper tyrannis” in Latin) is used as a rallying cry against abuse of power, echoing the alleged words of Brutus after he murdered Julius Ceasar.
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The Oh Hellos – Zephyrus
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What do you find within the lines of / Distant suns / And their systems / Where I come up empty? / What of those painted songs of heroes / Or the moon / Herculean / Pulling a half
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The Oh Hellos – Cold
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When the feeling leaves you / It moves so slow / Like the loose change from your front pocket / You don’t even feel it go / When the bitter creeps in / To bite you whole / A
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The Oh Hellos – Rose
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Wars are raising for her / Crusades to adore her / The light of your afterword / Are you losing her true nature / When you loosen nomenclature / When you gift another moniker
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The Oh Hellos – Hieroglyphs
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Stamping your heels along with the drum / Praying the serpent's underneath one of 'em / Like there's some villain left to defeat / Instead of a dance with a rhythm and beat / Cause
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The Oh Hellos – Where Is Your Rider?
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“Where Is Your Rider” is based on the previous song, “Pale White Horse”, so listeners can assume that the “rider” in this song is the rider of that horse, Death. Repeatedly asking
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The Oh Hellos – Theseus
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At the edges of my fingers / Never quite closing ‘round it / Oh, that peace like a river / Always going, but never getting / Seems like maybe it’s not all that much a place / As it
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The Oh Hellos – Torches
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“Torches” was the first single off Notos, a new EP from The Oh Hellos released December 8, 2017. From NPR:
“Notos is the first of four EPs that The Oh Hellos will release over
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The Oh Hellos – O Sleeper
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While the weary nations weep / Awakening me from a dream / I see the moonlight steal across my sheets / My love is lying fast asleep / Chasing its beams / She stirs, and then she
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The Oh Hellos – Grow
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Between the seams that line your living room / A vine of ivy's pushing her way through / And as she creeps along, she sinks her roots / Into the cracks, and pulls 'em back until
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The Oh Hellos – Hello My Old Heart
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The narrator of “Hello My Old Heart” addresses his broken heart. To protect his broken heart, he has built walls that isolate him from future relationships. Through the song, he
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The Oh Hellos – Bitter Water
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On one level, this is a song about one who looks back on an ended relationship with regret that the relationship existed in the first place. The love was bitter even in the
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The Oh Hellos – Rounds
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[Instrumental] / Am I still speaking? / Yeah, I’m long in the wind / I’ll go on and on and on again / If my chest don’t cave in / When did I last breathe in? / Am I empty again
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The Oh Hellos – Soap
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I’ve heard / Since I was younger / That oil and water don’t mix / They're polar opposites / With a molecular rift you can’t fix / But I swear with all your burnt bridges / You can
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The Oh Hellos – Notos
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According to the album description from The Oh Hellos' Bandcamp page:
Notos, the first installment in an ongoing series, is named for the ancient Greco-Roman god of the south wind
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The Oh Hellos – On the Mountain Tall
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On the mountain tall / Whisper to me words in a voice so small / Like the one that to Elijah called / Quiet as a candle and bright as the morning sun / Though the fire and wind
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The Oh Hellos – Eat You Alive
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“Eat You Alive” is song 3 from the album “Through the Deep, Dark Valley” (2012).
This song details the attractive, “cunning, and clever” nature of sinfulness, which leads to death
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The Oh Hellos – Danse Macabre
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This instrumental is a cover of the “tone poem” of the same name by composer Saint-Saëns, originally for orchestra.
The original piece tells the story of the dead awaking from
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The Oh Hellos – New River
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“New River” is the result of the transformation seen throughout Notos.
The title of the song and the corresponding lyrics are in reference to Isaiah 43:19, where it says,
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The Oh Hellos – There Beneath
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As a whole, this track continues to prepare us for an event (the crowning of a King followed by the establishment of his kingdom) that will come later in the narrative of the album
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The Oh Hellos – The Truth is A Cave
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The Truth is A Cave Lyrics: Well I was young / Well I was young and naive / Because I was told / Because I was told, so I believed / I was told there's only ...
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The Oh Hellos – Lapis Lazuli
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I don’t mean to speak so collectively / I know I don’t make it easy to even wanna hear it / What can I say, what can I say, what can I say / 'Cause the more I recite it / The more
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The Oh Hellos – Second Child, Restless Child
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“Second Child, Restless Child” is song 4 from the album “Through the Deep, Dark Valley” (2012).
“Second Child, Restless Child” is a continuation of the narrative begun in “Eat You
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The Oh Hellos – Rio Grande
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Somewhere down south of here / There’s a woman with an armload of grass / Weaving a basket / That’ll float the Rio Grande / She’ll send her baby off in it / The river running wild
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The Oh Hellos – This Will End
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No, I am not afraid to die / It's every breath that comes before / Heartache, I've heard, is part of life / And I have broken more and more / But I can hope how this will end
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The Oh Hellos – Wishing Well
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“Wishing Well” is song 5 from the album “Through the Deep, Dark Valley” (2012).
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