Hozier - Sunlight (Audio)

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ความคิดเห็น • 758

  • @dragonwithsword841
    @dragonwithsword841 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6249

    born too late to explore the world and too early to explore the cosmos, but just in time to explore hozier's discography

    • @Julia-il8rn
      @Julia-il8rn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +143

      I don't know why that made me feel something?

    • @la-lv4fq
      @la-lv4fq 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      And for this, all is well... all is well...

    • @southforthewinter257
      @southforthewinter257 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      at least we get to live in an exciting time when we're about to explore the cosmos- oh wait, we have 2020 to deal with. Exciting.

    • @laynewhite626
      @laynewhite626 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Theres still world to explore, it just requiers a long period of travel to find

    • @AmmaSoelberg
      @AmmaSoelberg 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      There's always the ocean

  • @hr5447
    @hr5447 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4233

    Just realized I have the rest of my life to listen to this man's music...this is going to be a good life.

    • @zurimurillof3978
      @zurimurillof3978 5 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      Helina Roba this just makes me smile so bad!

    • @josiee4578
      @josiee4578 5 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      I really hope I will live that long to hear all the rest he has to offer. I feel it in my bones he has alot more to come.His singing,his words his way of getting things done! Bless you 😇. Keep up the good work.

    • @chagitvandijk1529
      @chagitvandijk1529 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Josie Echevarria great comment! crazy about his personality, great wisdom, love for the world

    • @sophiapiper4978
      @sophiapiper4978 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      THIS ENERGY

    • @gerardarthurgay
      @gerardarthurgay 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      I aspire to be this happy

  • @nihil8471
    @nihil8471 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2101

    If I'm a pagan of the good times, my lover's the *sunlight, sunlight, sunliiight!*

    • @riveranimations4080
      @riveranimations4080 5 ปีที่แล้ว +125

      As a pagan who loves sunlight I appreciate this

    • @Kris-jt8hg
      @Kris-jt8hg 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@riveranimations4080 yoooooo

    • @xxcelestialdreamxx7709
      @xxcelestialdreamxx7709 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Damn what i wouldnt give for that mashup

    • @emjenkins464
      @emjenkins464 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      This is completely the spiritual successor to take me to Church

    • @diharaj5358
      @diharaj5358 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      i've been singing this single line to myself all day now, thanks

  • @catloverkitten10
    @catloverkitten10 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1969

    Hardly ever hear praise for Hozier's incredible backing singers. They are a choir in their own right and lift his amazing voice to a transcendental level. They are just as amazing in concert.

    • @chrizeldabernil8323
      @chrizeldabernil8323 5 ปีที่แล้ว +116

      He rarely uses other backing singers in his track recordings.It's usually just him doing the backing vocals but his live backing during performances are AWESOME. All of them sing including the drummer. And the 2 primary backing singers are excellent artists in their own right. One is in Native Run the other is their vocal coach.

    • @3storiesUp
      @3storiesUp 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      +1 .. Rachel Beauregard is fabulous.

    • @swiftclawtheshadowpup808
      @swiftclawtheshadowpup808 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Well said, friend. Beautiful works of art they all are.

    • @pilargonzalez8442
      @pilargonzalez8442 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I feel the same about Kelly Clarkson backing vocal ladies in Whole lotta Woman, my goodness... such gifted Artists!!!! That whole damn band kills it. ❤‍🔥

  • @jamsass
    @jamsass 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2179

    This song is holding me at knifepoint using every emotion I've ever repressed.

  • @XIIconstNvChr
    @XIIconstNvChr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2287

    damn this sounds like the beginning of an epic high fantasy adventure in a journey to restore the heart of primordial goddess and reawaken a dying world

  • @anapm2927
    @anapm2927 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1954

    Did he just create Icarus's theme song? Have mercy on us

    • @chrizeldabernil8323
      @chrizeldabernil8323 5 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      Yup he did! Now I'm imagining him with Victoria's Secret angel wings... of course with melted wax attachments. Gotta be textually accurate.

    • @anapm2927
      @anapm2927 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@chrizeldabernil8323 Not that I haven't thought about seeing him in a similar fashion!

    • @chrizeldabernil8323
      @chrizeldabernil8323 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@anapm2927 It must be seeing him drenched, underwater and those fleeting glimpses of his upper arms and belly. We can almost puzzle out a whole torso image.

    • @anapm2927
      @anapm2927 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@chrizeldabernil8323 Haha drenched and yet completely in his element! His domain..

    • @maxobb7259
      @maxobb7259 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Bitch, this is for our lord and sunny savior, Solaire.

  • @AntonioSilva-lj1yh
    @AntonioSilva-lj1yh 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1349

    Do you ever thank the universe for being alive in the same time as Hozier? What a blessing

  • @srestha
    @srestha 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1816

    I hope Hozier knows how much he's appreciated for his work.

    • @mrsSmilga
      @mrsSmilga 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Totally, me too!

    • @lilyraimey3499
      @lilyraimey3499 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Srestha Chakraborty He couldn’t possibly. My gratitude is unconditional.

    • @CollTerminator
      @CollTerminator 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      @@lilyraimey3499 Seen him perform live, gave me goosebumps at least 2 songs long. He knows, but he is quite shy a person, however his smile when he walks off stage shines bright like the sun

    • @jenniferlamb7131
      @jenniferlamb7131 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      And he stays humble and that's why we love him.

  • @chrizeldabernil8323
    @chrizeldabernil8323 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2353

    And the reviews said Sunlight was a weak and repetitive track... those reviewers have never had the divine experience of congregational supplication or jubilation.

    • @ashmd4537
      @ashmd4537 5 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      What I was thinking!

    • @MusicLover-sw3br
      @MusicLover-sw3br 5 ปีที่แล้ว +141

      You’re right. He’s tapping in to the ecstatic/sublime.

    • @catloverkitten10
      @catloverkitten10 5 ปีที่แล้ว +153

      Are you serious? Thus song is a religious experience. I don't read a lot if music reviewers - they're mostly stupid with a few exceptions.

    • @janetmiller175
      @janetmiller175 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Totally agree, it is transcendent.

    • @Scadia
      @Scadia 5 ปีที่แล้ว +153

      These are probably critics that haven't listened to any sort of Gospel music. It's often repetitive. I'm not even religious and I find joy, strength and passion in it. It's about the feeling the music gives you, sometimes through the music itself, sometimes the lyrics, and if you're lucky, both. Damn critics, make your own opinion. With that said, Take Me To Church!

  • @LoveCherry78
    @LoveCherry78 4 ปีที่แล้ว +910

    I was just scrolling on my dash and saw a post of someone's favourite graffiti from Pompeii “If anyone does not believe in Venus, they should gaze at my girlfriend.“ my immediate reaction was 'Hozier, is that you?'

    • @southforthewinter257
      @southforthewinter257 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      he's secretly an immortal god

    • @imchoosingallthebattles9432
      @imchoosingallthebattles9432 3 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      @@southforthewinter257 secretly? If the guy started levitating over a stage none of us would be surprised-

    • @southforthewinter257
      @southforthewinter257 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@imchoosingallthebattles9432 true true

    • @ember_1696
      @ember_1696 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      okay- I find this funny because Venus is the roman version of Aphrodite, therefore causing her to be extremely beautiful, and because of what you said-

  • @lapillity
    @lapillity 5 ปีที่แล้ว +988

    there's something about this song which is legitimately like having a religious experience

  • @lilyraimey3499
    @lilyraimey3499 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3579

    “Know that I’d gladly be the Icarus to your certainty, my Sunlight. Strap the wing to me, death-trap clad happily.” Jesus Christ, imagine someone loving you that much.😳

    • @maffienomm2771
      @maffienomm2771 4 ปีที่แล้ว +103

      I have wanted this so badly, and now I found it, and it's terrifying a.f. but I wouldn't trade it for the world. Careful what we wish for 😊

    • @thed858
      @thed858 4 ปีที่แล้ว +173

      Hozier said Icarus x Apollo rights

    • @CelestialDraconis
      @CelestialDraconis 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@thed858 We do stan

    • @naamahdarling
      @naamahdarling 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@maffienomm2771 Terrifying is exactly the word I was going to respond with.

    • @maffienomm2771
      @maffienomm2771 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@naamahdarling Amen.

  • @gaeacassidy6913
    @gaeacassidy6913 5 ปีที่แล้ว +401

    This song makes me want to preform a complicated dance in the middle of the forest to worship the sun with beautiful, chaotic creatures

    • @taylorj1658
      @taylorj1658 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      i cannot explain to you how much i love this comment

    • @dandelion_fields1551
      @dandelion_fields1551 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yes... just yes

    • @clark8117
      @clark8117 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      O myy yes!!!

    • @thefiretailedweasel6206
      @thefiretailedweasel6206 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Okay I'm glad I'm not the only one to have this exact thought??????

  • @kryptidsquid
    @kryptidsquid 5 ปีที่แล้ว +769

    this song made me astral project into a fawn eating grass in a forest in ireland

    • @maddiestorms7506
      @maddiestorms7506 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      kryptid kid this comment has like 1,000 likes on instagram

  • @bashekis
    @bashekis 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1093

    I just got new extremely high quality headphones (as opposed to my broken ones i've had for over two months lmao) and i'm pretty sure i fucking ascended when he started singing

    • @namelessshameless1505
      @namelessshameless1505 4 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      I have a really good pair of audio technica headphones that cost almost as much as my phone solely so I can have an aneurysm whenever I listen to his songs

    • @carilamos5173
      @carilamos5173 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I have just ascended to the next plain of existence just by listening to Hozier.

    • @paperboycipper7047
      @paperboycipper7047 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I got great ones two days back and I'm right in that boat with you. I've been baptized.

    • @pleaseneverspeaktome
      @pleaseneverspeaktome ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Your headphones broke after two months?

    • @AsheQuinn
      @AsheQuinn ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ​@@pleaseneverspeaktome it's really common with ear buds or cheap over the ear ones. Or if you're just rough handling either kind

  • @sharkgay
    @sharkgay 5 ปีที่แล้ว +664

    it's physically impossible for hozier to create a bad song

    • @alexanderleary3469
      @alexanderleary3469 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      birdheavy counter argument: Hozier Makes amazing songs but puts terrible effects in like in Wasteland baby where he constantly just fades in and out

    • @Catcatboo1
      @Catcatboo1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@alexanderleary3469 I like the effects. Acoustic versions of songs that normally have those kinds of effects are always really surprising and seem weirdly (but nicely) new.

    • @deekshasinha73
      @deekshasinha73 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      i will like your comment solely because of your name and profile picture.

    • @sharkgay
      @sharkgay 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@deekshasinha73 LMAOOOOOO completely forgot i even commented on this video but im glad u approve

  • @aubreezimmerman7323
    @aubreezimmerman7323 4 ปีที่แล้ว +490

    I like to sing this for my elderly dog. He’s deaf, but he rests his head on my neck so he can feel the vibrations.

  • @alexking8467
    @alexking8467 4 ปีที่แล้ว +388

    imagine: a small apartment crammed full of books and vinyl records and streaming full of sunlight, this playing softly from the record player as you sip tea on a small couch near the window.

    • @catfury3605
      @catfury3605 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I'm crying, this is all I want from life

    • @trixiaanne2cariaga100
      @trixiaanne2cariaga100 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Our house 😊

    • @the_ratest_boy
      @the_ratest_boy 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I lit got wasteland baby on vinyl yesterday for my b day and did this lol

  • @lizzyt1248
    @lizzyt1248 5 ปีที่แล้ว +872

    I almost cried hearing this one. It’s the feeling of relief after hurting, when you come home after losing someone or something and just fall into the arms of the people you love. It’s so safe.

    • @olooshia
      @olooshia 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      well put, thank you!

  • @naamahdarling
    @naamahdarling 4 ปีที่แล้ว +274

    Rare to see sunlight depicted as merciless and deadly. This song is beautiful and transcendent in its description of consuming abject love/worship, but it is dark as hell.

    • @stephenodonnell8023
      @stephenodonnell8023 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Always reminds me of my daughter

    • @rowan4224
      @rowan4224 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I mean, sunlight is merciless and deadly, especially if you spent to long in it. Sunburns, skin cancer, etc.....

  • @caneelc4539
    @caneelc4539 3 ปีที่แล้ว +343

    Lyrics:
    [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 flight?
    Betray the moon as acolyte
    On first and fierce affirming sight
    Of sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
    [Chorus]
    I had been lost to you, sunlight
    And flew like a moth to you, sunlight, oh, sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight, oh
    But it is sunlight
    [Verse 2]
    All the tales the same
    Told before and told again
    A soul that’s born in cold and rain
    Knows sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
    And at last can grant a name
    To a buried and a burning flame
    As love and its decisive pain
    Oh, my sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
    [Chorus]
    All that was shown to me, sunlight
    Was somethin' foreknown to me, sunlight, oh sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    But it is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    But it is sunlight, sunlight
    [Bridge]
    Oh, all these colors fade for you only
    Hold me, carry me slowly, my sunlight
    Oh, all these colors fade for you only
    Hold me, carry me slowly, my sunlight
    [Verse 3]
    Each day, you'd rise with me
    Know that I would gladly be
    The Icarus to your certainty
    Oh, my sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
    Strap the wing to me
    Death trap clad happily
    With wax melted, I’d meet the sea
    Under sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
    [Chorus]
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    But it is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    But it is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    But it is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    But it is sunlight
    [Outro]
    Sunlight, sunlight, sunlight, sunlight, sunlight

    • @madeleinegauthier7747
      @madeleinegauthier7747 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      I swear at some point sunlight stops looking like a actual wors

    • @transwithnoplans
      @transwithnoplans ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Sunlight doesn’t even look like a word anymore-

  • @chrizeldabernil8323
    @chrizeldabernil8323 5 ปีที่แล้ว +730

    Oh! A druid chant for the rite of spring. Fitting.

    • @LadyMossdown
      @LadyMossdown 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Exactly what I was thinking 👀☀️

    • @caroldoocy4130
      @caroldoocy4130 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I KNEW it!! He's a Druid!!!

    • @chrizeldabernil8323
      @chrizeldabernil8323 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@caroldoocy4130 Here is actual evidence, please note height and the nails:
      th-cam.com/video/9gKVpOYjDZo/w-d-xo.html
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Croghan_Man

  • @rhaenerys9708
    @rhaenerys9708 5 ปีที่แล้ว +498

    this is the kind of music gods may be dying to... listening to this I feel as though I were a part of some ancient celebration like eleusinian mysteries, possessed by fatal desire to get devoured by the sun

    • @arunnowal707
      @arunnowal707 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      OHMYGOD i love your name

  • @fallowme147
    @fallowme147 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1376

    Imagine listening to this in an empty church

    • @pinkettmuiruri3787
      @pinkettmuiruri3787 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      daaamn just did!!

    • @Arausita
      @Arausita 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      I might faint.

    • @SpockNRoll
      @SpockNRoll 5 ปีที่แล้ว +129

      Well, in that case............... *take me to church*

    • @jennaanderson2202
      @jennaanderson2202 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      just imagining it makes me lightheaded

    • @sian3759
      @sian3759 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Plz someone need to let this happen...!

  • @eslamkhairat9819
    @eslamkhairat9819 4 ปีที่แล้ว +462

    I love how hozier's fanbase is so positive. I wish all the other fan bases are like ours.

  • @leonis5664
    @leonis5664 5 ปีที่แล้ว +122

    This feels like Hozier is a ancient bard and he is singing in a sunlit meadow while nymphs and satyrs join in his worship of the sun god

  • @rileylato5147
    @rileylato5147 5 ปีที่แล้ว +255

    I'm a writer and I absolutely would love to write a book about this song. Seriously its so enchanting.
    On a side note, it reminds me almost of a joke a friend told me. I was overly fascinated with these flowers on a tree and he said "you sound like a druid who's never been a druid before." If I legitimately was a druid this would be my theme song on God.

    • @louvveeeelleiremua
      @louvveeeelleiremua ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Literally same here...I immediately thought that listening to it..HALF HIS DISCOGRAPHY INSPIRES ME TO DO SO L..

    • @Wolpyyartz
      @Wolpyyartz ปีที่แล้ว +1

      As another writer, I listen to this song while I write just to get that amazing vibe and it helps me everytime

  • @anime931aj
    @anime931aj 5 ปีที่แล้ว +148

    This song is like a worship song for Apollo. Lol. I love it!

  • @kaydisdying2084
    @kaydisdying2084 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    There's something so reckless about every kind of love he sings about, like a fanatic about to throw themselves on a blade for their gods. It's equal parts terrifying and inspiring.

  • @m.b3839
    @m.b3839 4 ปีที่แล้ว +334

    For some reason this song actually made me cry. I don't know why at all. I'm just sitting in the library and imagined sitting in an empty church watching rays of light filter through dusty stained-glass windows and I just teared up. This song is truly powerful

  • @user-sj1xw1jq7x
    @user-sj1xw1jq7x 5 ปีที่แล้ว +204

    This song makes me imagine Hozier levitating in a clearing of the forest from "In the Woods Somewhere" while a beam of sunlight shines down on him and leaves swirl around him. I love it.

  • @hattie7814
    @hattie7814 5 ปีที่แล้ว +203

    Ok not to be dramatic or anything but this is the best song that’s ever had the kindness to grace my lowly underserving ears, I’ve never felt this before

  • @crubip5474
    @crubip5474 4 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    I had a dream last night where Hozier approached me from an overgrown backyard on the outskirts of a very big city and all he said to me was "sunlight." I very recently started listening to Hozier so I didnt know of this song yet and when I woke up I looked up "sunlight hozier" and lo and behold here it is. I really dont know what to do with this information

    • @ziggy6191
      @ziggy6191 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Our forest god hozier led you to his prayers

    • @Corviidei
      @Corviidei 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      how does it feel to have received a message from a god

    • @nidhiarya1187
      @nidhiarya1187 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Forest God has blessed her

    • @hellothere702
      @hellothere702 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I fucking knew he was a god

  • @foolsgoldenrod
    @foolsgoldenrod 5 ปีที่แล้ว +210

    This song is joyful, resigned, cathartic. It's the march of life. It's a devotional to the carrying on of each new day, even when it's hard, even when it's blinding.

  • @niikolaaii
    @niikolaaii 5 ปีที่แล้ว +531

    Now it's clear that Andrew is unable to create bad music.

    • @elizabadiur5551
      @elizabadiur5551 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      hozier's name is andrew???

    • @niikolaaii
      @niikolaaii 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@elizabadiur5551 Andrew John lol

    • @Bduckie13
      @Bduckie13 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@elizabadiur5551 hozier is apart of his last name. “Hozier-Byrne”

    • @Idontknow-th9iq
      @Idontknow-th9iq 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ANDREW??

    • @nicoletti345
      @nicoletti345 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It makes so much sense that his name is Andrew but I feel like I was never supposed to know

  • @mackedahhines4087
    @mackedahhines4087 5 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    The choir just makes everything more magical✨😭

  • @roxyroxanne1233
    @roxyroxanne1233 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The one man that can create a great song by repeating "sunlight"!

  • @dolphin5877
    @dolphin5877 5 ปีที่แล้ว +96

    Hozier shows emotion in his music that otherwise would be undescribable.

  • @federicogou
    @federicogou 5 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    I was about to fall asleep and then the notification got to me and suddenly I'm wide awake, praising my Forest God.

  • @user-xi3ym2ls6p
    @user-xi3ym2ls6p 3 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    How can someone not appreciate the greatness of this song for real?? This is pure art, poetry, emotion??? How can someone be this talented?? If yall don't play this song at my funeral I'll literally resurrect.

  • @nadine2291
    @nadine2291 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    He is not of this world, I swear.

  • @AaronHildebrand-wh4nj
    @AaronHildebrand-wh4nj 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    People need to express to hozier how impactful this song is. Hozier does not get enough credit or recogniton for it. And as such, he does not perform it nearly enough.

  • @plantman1389
    @plantman1389 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    god, imagine listening to this in an abandoned cathedral in the woods, left to be reclaimed by nature. the sunlight peaking through the rotting rafters, illuminating the motes of dust dancing about as if they were pixies; birdsong in the distance, the wind rushing through the trees.

  • @7377H4
    @7377H4 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1192

    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 flight
    Betray the moon as acolyte
    On first and fierce affirming sight
    Of sunlight, sunlight, sunlight?
    I had been lost to you, sunlight
    Flew like a moth to you, sunlight, oh sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    Oh, but it is sunlight
    Oh, the tale's the same
    Told before and told again
    A soul that's born in cold and rain
    No sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
    At last can grant a name
    To a buried and a burning flame
    As love and its decisive pain
    Oh my sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
    All that was shown to me, sunlight
    Was something foreknown to me, sunlight, oh sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight

    Oh, but it is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight

    Oh, but it is sunlight, sunlight
    All these colors fade for you
    only
    Carry me slowly, my sunlight
    All these colors fade for you
    only
    Carry me slowly, my sunlight
    Each day you rise with me
    Know that I would gladly be
    The Icarus to your certainty
    Oh my sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
    Strap the wing to me
    A death trap clad happily
    With wax melted I'd meet the sea
    Under sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight

    Oh, but it is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight

    Oh, but it is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight

    Oh, but it is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    Oh, but it is sunlight
    Sunlight, sunlight, sunlight, sunlight, sunlight

    • @lettersivewritten
      @lettersivewritten 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Mothmeme.txt

    • @a-c6586
      @a-c6586 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      thanks

    • @fallonm.m.9314
      @fallonm.m.9314 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Thank you lyrics guy

    • @aprilhisey2244
      @aprilhisey2244 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Only holier could get away with singing sunlight like 50 times and it still sounding flawless

    • @funkyfresh2053
      @funkyfresh2053 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This song is so beautiful like wtf💖

  • @j24030
    @j24030 5 ปีที่แล้ว +114

    This album has renewed my soul and I feel lighter than before

  • @shaylabear2538
    @shaylabear2538 5 ปีที่แล้ว +175

    if only i could be so grossly incandescent

  • @ImNotAWitchImYourWIFI
    @ImNotAWitchImYourWIFI ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Honestly you know what it is? This music feels like exactly the type of music that they should be playing in church. It's soulful and it's worshipful. And it feels like that deep and abiding love that one should have, that's completely unconditional. I'm not Christian myself.
    But I used to be. And this feels like how it should have felt then

  • @patricialouiseofrasio9740
    @patricialouiseofrasio9740 5 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    You know how you repeat a word enough that it stops being and sounding like itself? Sunlight

  • @keating6155
    @keating6155 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    I have decided to name my pet fish after this song. This song means so much to me. It has helped me through so much. The fish is a beautiful red color with purple iridescence, reminding me of a sunset after a summer thunderstorm. The sky was a beautiful gold at the time that I got him. All of this has led me to name him Sunlight.

    • @NinaWTF
      @NinaWTF ปีที่แล้ว

      Good for you ❤️❤️

  • @aliasfakename7569
    @aliasfakename7569 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    God bless you wonderful people who understand what a gift Hozier is to humankind.

  • @sebibuchs
    @sebibuchs 5 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    It is astonishing how this album is even better than imagined in my dreams

  • @commonperson23
    @commonperson23 3 ปีที่แล้ว +615

    this song makes me feel more like a plant than my asexuality ever did... ive never wanted to photosynthesize more in my entire life.

    • @southforthewinter257
      @southforthewinter257 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      honestly same lol I'm aroace

    • @joebidenshusbandnamedkyle6420
      @joebidenshusbandnamedkyle6420 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      How does being asexual Make you a plant?

    • @shamelia767
      @shamelia767 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      i have never related to a youtube comment more

    • @thebumfuzzle45
      @thebumfuzzle45 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@joebidenshusbandnamedkyle6420 i mean some plants are capable of asexual reproduction lol

    • @bruhbrie5693
      @bruhbrie5693 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I just guffawed XD

  • @npelehacs
    @npelehacs ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "Your love is sunlight"... it's exactly what I feel about God's love. Also the organ music at the end, makes it even better 😊.

  • @lillihopper
    @lillihopper 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    my dog died recently and i wasn't able to cry until i listened to this song a week after the fact...it was a cathartic requiem of sorts (in easter week...after notre dame). i'm not religious but was raised catholic and this music is very evocative and pretty powerful for me. hozier is a beautiful soul!

  • @MusicLover-sw3br
    @MusicLover-sw3br 5 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    I love this song the more I listen to it. To me, it’s a culmination of a several sings, most particularly, following perfectly after “Would That I.” If the first album was the songs of a broken heart, this album is of a man in love. Sunlight is the ecstatic expression of that, and of the natural world. It is transcendent & spiritual, as well. It’s just gorgeous.

  • @deadsoon
    @deadsoon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    played this while having a mental breakdown on the bathroom floor. somehow made me sob even harder; but i think i needed to cry. this song's magical.

  • @a_confused_cat4704
    @a_confused_cat4704 4 ปีที่แล้ว +103

    He really wrote a whole song for Apollo worshipers huh

    • @faithreece8857
      @faithreece8857 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Khathutshelo Mainganye Ooh wait Thats an awesome idea I might borrow it if it’s chill

  • @dex6385
    @dex6385 5 ปีที่แล้ว +126

    i’ve never clicked on a notification this fast in my entire life

  • @upasana2709
    @upasana2709 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Being broken, being cracked open to the point that the world seeps in. This song helps me find power in vulnerability. Hozier is an angel.

  • @lostbreadgirl
    @lostbreadgirl ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I'm sitting in the train, gazing into open skies and feeling the sun on my face through the window listening to Hozier praising "Sunlight, Sunlight, Sunlight". A religious experience truly.

  • @Pluto-ne9xr
    @Pluto-ne9xr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +452

    I'm here because the hoizer Fanbase is straight Crack and I wanna be part of that, I stayed here cause I like hoizer now. Let the moss eat me too children I'm a fan

    • @namelessshameless1505
      @namelessshameless1505 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      The council has declared you as allowed to be eaten by moss. Join us

    • @Akira-tp2sr
      @Akira-tp2sr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      *multiple soul strucken zombies* joooooin uuuuus

    • @stephanieking7391
      @stephanieking7391 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      May I join?

    • @southforthewinter257
      @southforthewinter257 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@stephanieking7391 the decree has gone forth. First you must learn the dance of frogs

    • @meechiejamerson
      @meechiejamerson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@southforthewinter257 And then the Waltz of the Cat Prince

  • @avianchild7240
    @avianchild7240 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Im obsessed with icarus and because I've never looked at the lyrics, i added this to my playlist because it sounds great and what do you know 😂

  • @callusklaus2413
    @callusklaus2413 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    A Hozier album, what a wonderful thing to wake to

  • @joanne2398
    @joanne2398 5 ปีที่แล้ว +98

    I JUST GOT HOME FROM SCHOOL WHAT A TREAT

  • @alexanderthecommanderofmem6148
    @alexanderthecommanderofmem6148 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This easily describes how I imagine love truly feels. Being aromantic, I have very little understanding of what romantic love is supposed to feel like, and I long for it despite my heart not working that way. I instead live out these dreams of love through my characters. Is it healthy? Maybe not, but even still. I will always have my Sunlight.

  • @ravenhutchinson5036
    @ravenhutchinson5036 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Sometimes I feel like this song is a prayer. The organ and choir don't help.

  • @yeasurepandas
    @yeasurepandas 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    This song makes me visualize angel wings and churches. Its just heavenly

  • @inisaiahsfreezer
    @inisaiahsfreezer ปีที่แล้ว +3

    leave it to hozier to make the most heart-wrenching, mind-shattering, life-altering songs ever

  • @kellyrascon
    @kellyrascon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I decided to listen to this song because someone said they had something akin to a religious experience listening to it and after doing so myself I feel like that was an apt description

  • @JolPil
    @JolPil 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Tears flow, and yes, the glory and the majesty and the Victory of sunlight, fills me with me awe. The Power of a hundred sunlight angels in this song.

  • @roxo7349
    @roxo7349 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    2:23 this part always hits different

  • @aigast.4766
    @aigast.4766 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    This song makes me dizzy...what a masterpiece.

  • @honeypots8787
    @honeypots8787 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Need me a man to love me like this song

    • @Nr.1Mimir
      @Nr.1Mimir 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Need a man to love me like hozier loves his sunlight.

  • @dannylieberwirth1784
    @dannylieberwirth1784 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    i wish i could drink this song

  • @aeryn2385
    @aeryn2385 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This song literally feels like pure, unconditional love. I'm obsessed.

  • @analuisaalvesdesousa377
    @analuisaalvesdesousa377 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    This is the most beautiful thing I have ever heard.

  • @CelestialDraconis
    @CelestialDraconis ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The way Hozier sings about love is so pure, I can't help but weep.

  • @Crowsaxton
    @Crowsaxton 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    I love "Movement", but this is my new favorite song on Wasteland, Baby!

  • @leven301
    @leven301 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    *Big rant*, but does anyone else think of "Take Me to Church"?
    "If I'm a pagan of the good times, my lover's the Sunlight"
    I can't help but remember the music video and all the sweet moments between the characters there -- as well as the horrid ones.
    I feel like this song describes that story too, in a way. Or a story of another same sex couple ("the tale's the same, told before and told again"). But it lingers in the weight of a secret and how their love would bring it to light.
    They lived in the darkness of night--"in cold and rain"--before they met them. It would be perhaps more peaceful to "shun the light" and live life pretending to be blissfully ignorant. And yet like the night giving way in the face of sunlight, they've fallen in love fiercely for the first time ("whose heart would not take flight? ...flew like a moth to you, Sunlight"). In doing so, they betray the religion that guided their life ("the moon as acolyte")
    Falling in for the other made them realize that they were never straight ("at last can grant a name, to a buried and a burning flame, as love and it's decisive pain... all that shown to me was something foreknown to me").
    And now their life has changed. The image they had of themself and the world they knew before fades like a photo under sunlight - under falling for the other ("these colors fade for you only").
    But in the end, it was the life they gladly chose.
    They'd wake up together each morning, with no regrets. Despite all the pain, of having a religion which damns them, they'd do it again in a heartbeat.

  • @gabiiigrace
    @gabiiigrace 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    ok imagine listening to this song in 8D tho?? an absolute DREAM

  • @Rugis_
    @Rugis_ ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Broke my foot to this song 10/10

  • @spideyxalmighty695
    @spideyxalmighty695 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    this makes me wanna dance, almost like jumping around in circles, with my eyes closed, while holding the skirt of my dress and my arm and my lovers' are intertwined at the elbows while she does the same, our hair moving to the rythm of the music in such a motion that it almost doesn't allow for the smiles in our faces to be properly seen but we don't care because we're the utmost happy living our little cottacore life
    i don't even have a girlfriend 😭

  • @leolonderland1302
    @leolonderland1302 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Ok but this whole album slaps

  • @Dani-mg4cd
    @Dani-mg4cd 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    The lyrics to his songs are so UNIQUE!,the sound is just...I don't even know what adjective to use

  • @carolinavanderlande4904
    @carolinavanderlande4904 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Last year I put on this song in my car while driving to a funeral. It was so comforting. Now I’m listening to it during the Corona crisis. What a masterpiece!

  • @micah9668
    @micah9668 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    listening to this song is a spiritual experience

  • @kandacekirkwood5509
    @kandacekirkwood5509 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    This song eases all of my anxiety. Thank you Hozier.

  • @sablebirdzell7144
    @sablebirdzell7144 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Pelor applauds your song of praise dear bard..
    I’m so in love with this immortal bard hozier

  • @barizz1
    @barizz1 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This man, this choir, everything is impeccable and so heavenly beautiful. It’s a shame that people only know him by ‘Take Me To Church’

  • @trash6960
    @trash6960 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    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 flight?
    Betray the moon as acolyte
    On first and fierce affirming sight
    Of sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
    I had been lost to you, sunlight
    And flew like a moth to you, sunlight, oh, sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    But it is sunlight
    All the tales the same
    Told before and told again
    A soul that's born in cold and rain
    Knows sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
    And at last can grant a name
    To a buried and a burning flame
    As love and its decisive pain
    Oh, my sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
    All that was shown to me, sunlight
    Was somethin' foreknown to me, sunlight, oh sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    But it is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    But it is sunlight, sunlight
    Oh, and these colors fade for you only
    Hold me, carry me slowly, my sunlight
    Oh, all these colors fade for you only
    Hold me, carry me slowly, my sunlight
    Each day, you'd rise with me
    Know that I would gladly be
    The Icarus to your certainty
    Oh, my sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
    Strap the wing to me
    Death trap clad happily
    With wax melted, I'd meet the sea
    Under sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    But it is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    But it is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    But it is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    But it is sunlight
    Sunlight, sunlight, sunlight, sunlight, sunlight

    • @taeexxx
      @taeexxx 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ty

  • @sapphicdionysus
    @sapphicdionysus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This song is what I imagine walking through a wasteland would feel like. The merciless and deadly sunlight upon your back, the feeling of hope slowly being drained out of you by it. Hozier wanted to make an album about the apocalypse and hell did he got it right!

  • @bubblegumbishonen
    @bubblegumbishonen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I just discovered this song from a Greek myth playlist and boy am I glad I gave it a listen. Yet another Hozier song to praise; shame I never knew of it until now! It's helping me get through writing the fifth chapter of my book and I'm ever grateful for its existence uwu Thank you for your incredible writing and singing, Hozier!

  • @withak7683
    @withak7683 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    pretty sure I am in love with him...

  • @conjuredcoffee5783
    @conjuredcoffee5783 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    You know. This is a beautiful song, but if you take into account the myth of Icarus and Daedalus, it’s an incredibly heart wrenching song.

  • @zarlaklegamer9850
    @zarlaklegamer9850 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    [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 flight
    Betray the moon as acolyte
    On first and fierce affirming sight
    Of sunlight, sunlight, sunlight?
    [Chorus]
    I had been lost to you, sunlight
    And flew like a moth to you, sunlight, oh, sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    Oh, but it is sunlight
    [Verse 2]
    All the tales the same
    Told before and told again
    A soul that’s born in cold and rain
    Knows sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
    And, at last, can grant a name
    To a buried and a burning flame
    As love and its decisive pain
    Oh, my sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
    [Chorus]
    All that was shown to me, sunlight
    Was somethin' foreknown to me, sunlight
    Oh, sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    Oh, but it is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    Oh, but it is sunlight, sunlight
    [Bridge]
    All these colours fade for you only
    Hold me, carry me slowly, my sunlight
    All these colours fade for you only
    Hold me, carry me slowly, my sunlight
    [Verse 3]
    Each day, you'd rise with me
    Know that I would gladly be
    The Icarus to your certainty
    Oh, my sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
    Strap the wing to me
    Death trap clad happily
    With wax melted, I’d meet the sea
    Under sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
    [Chorus]
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    Oh, but it is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    Oh, but it is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    Oh, but it is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    Oh, your love is sunlight
    Oh, but it is sunlight
    [Outro]
    Sunlight, sunlight
    Sunlight, sunlight
    Sunlight

  • @soubhagyabhaskar1051
    @soubhagyabhaskar1051 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This song is transcedental, my soul is somewhere familiar yet so unknown...

  • @cassadijohnson6828
    @cassadijohnson6828 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Another amazing song. I wish I could afford this concert 😔. Now my knowledge of every one of his songs will never be put to use 😂

    • @tamala521
      @tamala521 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Me too! He'll be around for a long time so you'll be able to at some point in time.

  • @AtomicHaven
    @AtomicHaven 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This song played in the car ride on the way home, after our first kiss. We had a very short but very bright flame. I still think about you three years after we broke up.

  • @Uhmstillher
    @Uhmstillher 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    God, I want to love someone this badly and have this song be the only way I could describe the love I have for them.