 Genius Meanings
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Hozier – Talk
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“Talk” is a song about seduction. During the album release party, Hozier described the protagonist as an “unreliable narrator” who has “not the best intentions in mind,” as well as
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Hozier – Take Me to Church
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“Take Me to Church” is the debut single by Irish recording artist Hozier. It has become an international hit, reaching #1 in 12 countries, and has been certified five times
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Hozier – Work Song
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This is the only song on Hozier’s self titled album to have a title that is not entirely composed of lyrics from the song.
The song is about the love of a worker’s life lending
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Hozier – It Will Come Back
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“It’s quite a sad song to me and it’s about asking somebody to do the right- the merciful thing and to cut all the ropes, cut all the ties.”
The lyrics of this song evoke the
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Hozier – Wasteland, Baby!
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“Wasteland, Baby!” is about falling in love. Hozier compares it to an apocalyptic event, but frames it in a way that is not necessarily negative, but more a new beginning. Falling
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Hozier – Someone New
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[Verse 1] / Go and take this the wrong way / You knew who I was with every step that I ran to you / Only blue or black days / Electin' strange perfections in any stranger I choose
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Hozier – Moment's Silence (Common Tongue)
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Moment’s Silence is the third track on the Nina Cried Power EP. Here Hozier repeatedly revels in enjoying physical pleasure with the one he loves, and the shrugging off of the
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Hozier – Dinner & Diatribes
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“Dinner and Diatribes” was released on February 14th, 2019. Hozier posted about it on Twitter before its release, stating,
This one is about the crushing tedium of social
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Hozier – Sunlight
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[Verse 1] / I would shun the light, share in evening's cool and quiet / Who would trade that hum of night / For sunlight, sunlight, sunlight? / But whose heart would not take
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Hozier – Shrike
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“Shrike” is about a relationship that has been lost, and the frustration and sadness that comes with the regret of not appreciating what was had when he had it. The relationship
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Hozier – Anything But
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In “Anything But,” the upbeat claps and drums portray a story of someone attempting and yearning to distance themselves from their partner. Using metaphors like riptides, stampedes
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Hozier – Almost (Sweet Music)
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Hozier pays homage to some of the greatest jazz musicians who came before him by referencing them and their song titles throughout the lyrics. A playlist of the songs referenced
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Genius Traducciones al Español – Hozier - Talk (Traducciones al Español)
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[Verso 1] / Yo sería la voz que instó a Orfeo / Cuando encontraron su cuerpo (Oye, sí) / Sería la esperanza sin elección en el dolor / Eso lo llevó a la clandestinidad (Oye, sí
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Hozier – Would That I
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“Would That I” is about love, and the destruction of love. It describes past romances as trees the protagonist used as shelter, and then a new interest as a fire that burns down
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Hozier – NFWMB
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“NFWMB”, or “Nothing Fucks With My Baby”, is a “love song for the end of the world”, sonically tender and reflective.
When introducing “NFWMB” at his London concert on December
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Hozier – Nobody
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“Nobody” is, in Hozier’s words, a song “about the limitations of love between flawed people.” In it, Hozier describes his lover as someone who is not exactly “a saint,” and how he
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Hozier – As It Was
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[Verse 1] / There is a roadway, muddy and foxgloved / Whenever I'd have life enough, my heart is screamin' of / And in a few days I will be there, love / Whatever here that's left
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Hozier – Francesca
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“Francesca” is the debut single from Hozier’s third studio album, Unreal Unearth. The track is inspired by Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, particularly the story of Francesca da
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Hozier – No Plan
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“No Plan” is a disco-y stomper inspired by physicist Lawrence M. Krauss' belief that we should rejoice at being so lucky to even have this relatively brief moment on Earth, are
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Hozier – Be
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“Be” is about “loving somebody as an increasingly radical act, or looking at love as a transgressive act.” Hozier describes a myriad of terrible happenings, being cast out of
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Hozier (Ft. Mavis Staples) – Nina Cried Power
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Nina Cried Power is a classic look on protest songs. The song is a bit of a tribute to Nina Simone and mentions other artists such as Marvin Gaye, John Lennon, B.B. King and Curtis
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Hozier – Like Real People Do
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This song is a metaphor. Hozier uses “bog bodies” in Ireland, bodies which are exhumed after centuries of natural mummification, to describe a new relationship.
Hozier explained
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Hozier – Abstract (Psychopomp)
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“Abstract (Psychopomp)” according to the artist in an interview for Belfast Telegraph is written by a person who is Sphinx-like from an autobiographical point of view and is a
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Hozier – Sedated
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Hozier has stated that this song is about escapism. Given the lyrics, the song is most likely about escapism through drugs (“sedated”) and sex (“slaves to any semblance of touch”).
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Hozier – All Things End
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In “All Things End,” the surface interpretation leans toward the end of a romantic relationship, where the finite nature of such things is seen and understood without any cynicism
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Hozier – To Noise Making (Sing)
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“To Noise Making (Sing)” is a celebration of the act of singing and what it offers us. The main message of the song is found in the chorus: it doesn’t matter how talented a person
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Hozier – Run
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Hozier, in Birmingham at The Institute on 23/01/15:
[James Joyce] famously had a quote about Ireland in which he lovingly said […] that Ireland is the sow that eats its farrow
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Hozier – First Time
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On July 28th, Hozier sent out an autographed letter to a fan previewing the lyrics of the song, revealing it was track 3.
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Bear McCreary (Ft. Hozier) – Blood Upon the Snow
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[Intro] / To all things housed in her silence / Nature offers a violence / The bear that keeps to his own line / The wolf that seeks always his own kind / The world that hardens as
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