Heartbreak IS one of the most romantic experiences you can have. It shows that you loved fully, and yet you're still here. Your heart feels crushed and broken, a shell of what it used to be, but you're still alive. And you will love again. That is beautiful.
@@unidentifiedwhistlingobjec6515 more like "what if you invited me with abandonment issues into your house" Its about struggling to get over a breakup, about how every positive interaction they have post breakup reminds the PoV character of their relationship and makes it harder to move on.
"If there was anyone to ever get through this life with their heart still in tact, they didn't do it right" This might be the most realistic, encouraging yet heart breaking song about relationship that I've ever heard in my life.
Exactly! If you've never experienced heartbreak in your entire life, it probably means that you never opened up yourself to love. Whether it's a lover, parent, sibling, friend, etc. Which also means you've probably never felt the warmth and joy that comes with the relationship. Because grief, especially when felt during the loss of a relationship, is just another form of love. All love is precious, and like all things, it ends.
@@AsheQuinn That reminds me of a quote from a TV Show called WandaVision, Vision was giving advice to Wanda because she was grieving the loss of her brother and the words he used to comfort her was.. "But what Is grieve If not love persevering"
Lost my mom over a year ago, she really, really loved Hozier. We enjoyed listening to him together. I know this song is about a relationship, but gosh it does feel relevant to me as a grieve her loss still.
This song definitely fits the themes of grief and loss, whether it’s the end of a relationship or the life of a loved one. I’m so sorry for your mother’s loss, that’s incredibly difficult. May all your warm and happy memories with her keep you comfort 🤍
Just lost my father and i had a few losses over the last few years. I was just thinking the same thing. Im about to go into my senior year and im nervous and scared about making connections but it will be worth it in the end. this song has helped me through some rough times this past year. I hope it helped you too, you're never alone, may your mother rest in peace ❤.
"When people say that something is forever, either way, it ends" "And just knowing that everything will end, should not change our plans when we begin again" This is my favorite Hozier's song.... Thank you.
I ended a very toxic friendship with my best friend last year. Over the past year I’ve tried to convince myself a thousand times that I did the right thing, but I’ve never believed it. I miss her like crazy and have a mountain of guilt for deciding to leave. Yet in the end I know I did the right thing bc we were drowning, one of us had to leave. This song has made me tear up all over again about it. It’s refreshing to hear that it’s okay to not erase the amount of love you have for this person. We had something special, we fucked it up and it’s okay. We did the best we could.
I feel you. Last year I had to drop a friend because he was very toxic. I loved him a lot and enjoyed the time spent for the most part. For a long time I was afraid of losing friends and of opening myself up to new relationships. A year later, I'm making lots of new friends, maintaining healthy boundaries and I now have my first girlfriend! My life now is the best it's ever been. I've learned a lot from that friendship, and I don't regret it anymore
That sounds awful. I've stopped talking altogether with a friend I had known for like more than 10 years. We used to talk everyday but gradually I started feeling like she didn't really enjoy talking with me anymore. I always was the one starting and trying to keep conversations going. I thought I was being paranoid but I stopped reaching out first and the result is that I actually haven't heard from her for a whole year. We didn't even fight or anything. Sometimes things just end for no specific reason. It's really weird and it hurts at first, but... at that point, when you find out things aren't working out, being able to let go is the best and only thing to do, I think. It doesn't mean that the feelings you shared should be forgotten, though. It was good until it lasted, I'll try to cherish the memories and move on.
Something is making me belive that the curse that makes me the Target of a heavy toxic cloud raining on me Is the only thing that wont end like all other things.
I feel this comment so much oh my god, for a moment I thought I wrote it... funny how we got to experience the same thing :,) All I know is that we have to allow ourselves to feel in order to heal, I miss her like crazy too, and I guess that's okay. One day you will get used to their absence and we will feel again, and probably _that_ will end too but... who knows? The more we live, the more we learn. Anyway, it has been 3 months since you commented this, I hope you're feeling better, dear stranger!
When I heard the harmonized sound clip, I cried. My 15- year relationship ended and I am lost. This song perfectly describes what I feel and have felt. Thanks Hozier for releasing this amazing track
I am crying TEARS of joy. You just dropped my favorite song ever after another song of yours hello??? It’s so good! Thank you Hozier for writing these Godly songs of yours 💓
This song is making me sob. I had to put my two elderly dogs around christmas/new years and just had a conversation about whether or not we could go through that again for new puppies. the line "just knowing that everything will end should not change our plans when we begin again" feels like he's singing to me. I know this song is about a breakup but it feels very relevant still
Oh gosh I feel that. Back in 2018 I lost my first dog. He was 11. It took a lot of time to heal and be ready to accept another puppy into my life. I will treasure every day with him and enjoy every moment. Because everything ends eventually, and though the heartbreak is inevitable... The Joy I've felt knowing him and having him in my life is worth it
the song is about whatever your heart sees in it! that line is beautifully applied to losing a pet, especially because we will hopefully love another pet after ours has gone.
Sounds like a modern take on 90's R&B with these fabulous gospel choral sounds, I love it. I even hear hints of very early Prince from the 70's with the smooth falsetto. Gotta go buy this new EP. This feeds my ears and soul.
This song feels like watching the sunset, shoulders touching, over an oil spill in the ocean. The connection in the face of despair and the desire to go on past the point of no return.
🥹This song is a religious experience. Reminding us of something we know, but always tend to forget. The ephemerality is what makes life and love so beautiful.
this song makes me tingly and fuzzy and warm and the choir at the end??!?!?!!?!? don't even get me started ... immediate tears. this man has a way of creating songs with so much authentic emotion that you feel it everywhere and it stays with you long after any of the songs he's written has ended. a true once in a lifetime artist. mr andrew, you've done it again!!!!
This song gives me "Dancing together while the whole world is catching fire and collapsing on itself" vibes. For we have accepted that it is just the way it's made, that it ends inevitably, and concluded that we might as well keep dancing like we've always done, for there's nothing better we could possibly be doing right now
Dear Hozier, I don't know if you are going to read this but I hope this message reaches you. I started listening to your music in 2018, with 'Like Real People Do' and I remember just bawling my eyes out, for almost three hours. 2018 was one of the worst years of my tiny life. But discovering your music was an weird kind of solace, I mean I don't know if it happens to anyone else, but your words felt like, those were meant for me, directed to me, just providing me with the exact amount of respite, not less, definitely not more, to carry on with life. I am a pretty cynical person myself and listening to your music, or rather trying to understand your lyrics, gives a sense of not being alone, of being in a world who ends up weaving poetry and music with what at times clouds my mind, someone who shares a similar stroke of cynicism. I really love to read, my goal in life is to be capable enough so that all I can do is read, listen to music and watch some good movies. With your music, I love how you hide literary references in your lyrics, I love how you borrow from Yeats, or Heaney or Kavanagh. So, dear Hozier, thank you for making me a better reader and more than that, thank you for keeping me alive. PS. Since you enjoy reading poetry, I urge you to read Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali, the prologue of which was written by Yeats himself. Happy Birthday! 🎉 May you continue to find your solace in music and let me find solace in what you create. - Sreya.(17/03/23).
This is the most beautiful and honest thing I’ve seen anywhere, written as comment. You are not alone, something so piercing Hozier’s music, speaks directly to your most sacred, invokes the long forgotten - this lifetime or the one’s lived before, depending on layers you hear. I was the same, I felt it being directed to me, describing what was, what’s to come. Besides, this new EP is the most interesting of all, as Hozier finally uses ‘I’ form, still galant in this, would start by describing a man, and only then mentions the contrast between self and that man. The true lover, the love he has for his ideal, and does not matter whether the person ever has put her sweet mind upon his deserving chest, at the end of the day, with comments like this, you justify how beautiful of manifest this music is; his genius is. Like you, I assumed it’s me, back then (actually, March 2018), still struggling but slowly, gradually, hopefully realising that it’s the Universal heart, unconscious made conscious Hozier’s music is, his lyric is. Just when I wanted to say thank you for the strong and vulnerable, in every ‘I’ of this EP, I realised that me, also, wishing that Hozier would read this, but with no ‘me’ in it; with purable (as clean but needs to be cleaner) love for it. This man will never be aware of the extent. I was in uni back in 2018, and had a module called ‘aliveness in arts’, after which I had a strong soul’s urge to follow my true self, find it, make love with it. In less than a week Universe delivered Hozier’s music, I still can’t remember how it all happened, but things have not been the same, ever/ this year I read somewhere that the phenomena of ‘true Self’ is also the same as spiritual growth, and mine is the balancing act between heaven and hell, moral and healing awfully ugly, faith in justice and judgment of failures (my own and those of society). And finally, wholeness through man, through woman - principles I carry within me. Hozier has dressed so many people, he will never know how this is possible; how he beats the demons out, breaks, cracks us open, just be describing that tear, his own balancing act. Is it calling? Ps Perhaps you could think of Hozier’s voice and music, and realise that he had opened another level of understanding, dimension, gateway, like your ears and heart, and that through listening to this genius, you open the genius in oneself. Oh but that genius is you, your true, essential, simple, soul, the gateway to the world, for Hozier, the gateway to God, for some! It’s funny how I started this morning and am finishing the day with this tune, miraculously, as ringing in my mind, from spirit, saying, please, please… listen and find another layer until you find the gem, that is, your own wisdom, activated, maybe also in him. Love
May you always be the one, as musical muse, as this world becomes your love. Love on, from a bottom of a unconditional, I say! I hope you feel the same void, same I do, painted somewhere between music and the never fulfilling love for the man in music. I hope you live, live like that, like the most beautiful pain, loving Hozier in arts knowing that he is that. crave yourself also, because he would have craved the dream that's (always) out of reach, something so tangible as paradise and something so distant as Earth. I used to think Shrike was a song for me, for the amount of soul listening I gave to the man, in terms of Spotify listen amount. only now I am slowly realising that that art could not fit; that wasn't my story, became lost, without story, and urging surge for another true self emerged. According to John, just before He mentions Andrew, there is Jesus asking: what ye seek? Search for or wait, its all the same, its the divine for those who, with major complexity, arrive at simplicity, and seek again. ps people like you should always know that it is you, essentially, what Hozier created, its so individual in collective my heart breaks i cannot see your divination in art, your music or service, your dress when you go to the park and it rings bells… Lost and found and lost again. This is the longest comment i will ever write ❤ but I am glad you have found literature that speaks to you…Just as I found something so mine. be that giving, be that straw blonde, be that image in your mind when you heard him sing, be the one who found Hozier just after his mid-youth, and be, merciful and sweet, be as you have always been, you'll be the one goddess, careless and free, the life craves to see. Thank you
@@LondonMageMuse You have expressed the whole oxymoronic existence of the versions of 'me'/ 'I' in Hozier's lyrics so well. Honestly I do love the subtle tons of hopeful despair in his music, he realises the shitty situation of the worldly affairs, the fallacies of the human characters and yet he us hopeful for the infinite possible possibilities. In his earlier released album, in the song, NFWMB, he visualises his lover as being the ultimate powerful being, who just by her existence can postpone the end of the world, by whose sheer presence the destroyer who was slowly creeping towards Bethlehem to be born, changes their course, so he epitomises his lover as the one who transcends even the destroyer of the worlds yet assures to love her despite her positive het negative prowess. The whole, 'Give your heart and soul to charity 'Cause the rest of you The best of you Honey, belongs to me'....... I am sure there existed wonderful lyricists or even better ones of whom I am yet to get acquainted with, but I am in love with the depth of Hozier's works.
@@LondonMageMuse thank you so much. It really quite an realisation when I at times grapple at the fact that yes, in this vast planet, we call home, I am definitely not alone, with my weird heart broken and stupid problems. It boggles my mind how a musician from a tiny country of Ireland, in the far away north can bring together someone from a small north eastern state of India and someone like you who share a similar chain of thoughts for someone's work of art. Thank you for your wish and I wish you the same.
@@sreyapaul26 The pillars of fire, ascending from the vast depths of waters; the flame like selfless ambition, waters - purified and full. Today I realised the power of and my love for life, Life; today I am rebirth and that what is birthed! I received some information today, Shiva and Brahman type of information and mystically enough, my native language is Indo-European language, and in my pursuit of finding the real meaning of god, as in Hozier’s NFWMB, and finding the essential identity of my own being, I have explored my own psyche, I have been a seeker, part tradition, part untouched grounds. It still puzzles me how artists record, write, perform, and still have a renewed yet phenomenally timeless space they sing from! I have, since digging up Hozier, found other soulful and masterful artists, and the body of work I have listened is my sacred ground! Now turning inwards, upwards, in faith for God. Non justifiable, non sceptical faith, with curious mind, with confidence and incurable hope for love. I believe in pairs, blessed the day Hozier’s presence in the world, and my investigation of music led me to knowing that we, in fact, are part of the plan. 💛
This songs heals somehow my fear of rejection and relationships.. I finally want to fall in and out of love. I want to discover this bittersweet emotion of the ending.. Thank you.
Seeing plenty of people here just like me, recently losing a long-term relationship (~9 years for me) and reveling in the heartbroken hope that this song envelops us in. We got this tho! Never forget to love yourself. We're gonna make it.
The ending of this song is one the most beautiful things I've ever heard, their voices are so perfect and harmonized with so many layers it's amazing! If you don't have goosebumps listening to this, just get a pair of good headphones and turn up your volume, you'll feel it.
Who gave this god of the forest permission to give me ALL the feels with this song? It's my favorite song so far. We'll see if it holds its spot once the full album comes out.
This song is a soothing salve over the finally healing part of my heart that has been grieving the loss of my first love over this past winter. "We didn't get it right, but we love, we did our best"
“I have never known a silence like the one fallen here, never watched my future darken in a single tear” 😭💕my favorite line I swear so good I love his work so much
This song hits you in so many ways. This man has a way of gripping on to the parts of you that were hidden and bringing them straight out into the sunlight. I really can't 💕
I don’t know how but he captured my childhood memories. My parents would play R&B stations while my brother and I fell asleep in the back seat on long trips. The hymn vibes take me to church (no pun intended) listening to my dad and grandpa line hymnals during service and the choir would finish the song.
how does this man manage to release music with the exact message i need at the exact time i need it most. and it's always so good???? he never fails never misses and i am so glad for that. like yes everything ends but that's not a sad thing because the temporary is still beautiful and worth the love and effort we put into it because we love and grow and learn. say that king
This song perfectly depicts the five stages of grief, denial, anger, depression, bargaining, and finally acceptance. And it’s doing wonders for the grief I’m currently dealing with. It’s a perfect articulation of how I’ve been feeling recently.
This is a great EP! That line: “If there was anyone to ever get through this life with their heart still intact, they didn’t do it right.” Lyrical Gold. Thank you!
I was in the stages of accepting a break up was imminent right as this song came out. Made things a bit easier, and we were able to split amicably. And maybe we will begin again, and maybe it will end again. Everything does.
As a Sophmore losing all of my Senior bestfriends and mentors. This is gonna hit me so hard after they leave. Thank you Andrew for everything you have created and gave us. WE LOVE YOU!❤
I just ended a 5+ year relationship with someone who was once my best friend. We grew up together and planned a life together… but things weren’t working for a long time. This song births hope and peace in me and all my sadness…
[Verse 1] A two-tonne weight around my chest feels like It just dropped a twenty-storey height If there was anyone to ever get through this life With their heart still intact, they didn't do it right The last time I felt your weight on my chest, you said "We didn't get it right but, love, we did our best" [Pre-Chorus] And we will again Moving on in time and taking more from Everything that ends [Chorus] And all things end All that we intend is scrawled in sand And slips right through our hands And just knowing That everything will end Should not change our plans When wе begin again [Post-Chorus] We begin again, hmm-mm [Verse 2] I havе never known a silence like the one fallen here Never watched my future darken in a single tear I know we want this to go easy by being somebody's fault But we've gone long enough to know this isn't what we want And that isn't always bad [Pre-Chorus] When people say that something is forever Either way, it ends [Chorus] And all things end All that we intend is scrawled in sand Or slips right through our hands And just knowing That everything will end We should not change our plans When we begin again [Bridge] We begin again We begin again, hm-mm Darling [Chorus] And all things end All that we intend is built on sand Slips right through our hands And just knowing That everything will end Won't change our plans When we begin again [Outro] And all things end (Knowing we can always start again) All that we intend (Knowing we have another day) Is scrawled in sand (Knowing we can always start again) Or slips right through our hands (Knowing we have another day) And just knowing (Knowing we can always start again) That everything will end Should not change our plans When we begin again
I have listened to this song so, so much since it dropped. My favorite of this single by far! The bittersweet hope, the acknowledgement sometimes it isn't anybody's fault, the choral vocals with the backing track dropping out at the end. Sublime.
Thank you this song is absolutely stunning. Not only does it captures the essence of Hozier’s musical genius it also portrays his ability to create songs that are both profound and beautiful. I love how he uses his voice and his words to convey the emotions of the narrator, who has experienced a heartbreaking separation but also a hopeful renewal. The other day a friend of mine disagreed with me about Hozier's music not being haunting and now I see how - It’s haunting, but in a good way. It’s deep and meaningful and beautiful. It makes me feel things that other music can’t. Life is complex and diverse and unpredictable. Life has its dark sides as well as its bright sides. Life has its beauty as well as its horror. He doesn’t ignore the horror. He acknowledges it, he confronts it, he challenges it, he transcends it, by finding beauty in the horror, by finding hope in the despair, by finding light in the darkness. He makes me feel every nuance of their pain, their acceptance, their gratitude and their optimism. He also makes me admire their courage and their wisdom in facing the reality of life and love. This song is a masterpiece of lyrical poetry and soulful melody. It touches my heart and lifts my spirit. I can’t get enough of it. Thank you again, it really is very beautiful.
Though 'Eat Your Young' is the catchiest one in the EP, this is the one with the prettiest lyrics. Telling about a split-up in the most mature way Hozier could portray: like, yeah, it didn't work but we did our best, we enjoyed it and that doesn't mean we can't be together again someday if the chance comes. I LOVE IT. FAVE.
This is giving me so many 80s R&B vibes. I wish he would talk us through each track with his thoughts and inspirations like he used to 💚 All of these new songs have such a haunting, slow burn element. I love them more and more with each listen.
Hozier is so kind and generous. This EP released on March 17th 2023, which was Hozier's 33rd birthday. He has the goodness of spirit to give us multiple presents on his own dang birthday!!!
I know it's primarily a love song, but this song gives me so much comfort when I'm down, and it makes me feel grateful for things when they are going okay. It's my favourite song because after several failures, it gives me a lot of hope.
This song just feels like acceptance, closure. “We begin again” it makes you feel like anything’s possible and you can always begin again. All things end, so cherish the good things in your life
most hozier songs make me feel like i'm in a forest cottage or a rowdy but warm country tavern but this one makes me feel alone in a high-rise apartment, overlooking a dark city skyline, rain beating on my window, two glasses poured but only one drunk.. and it's the 1990's.
A two tonne weight around my chest feels like It just dropped a twenty story height If there was anyone to ever get through this life With their hearts still intact, they didn't do it right The last time I felt your weight on my chest you said "we didn't get it right but love we did our best" And we will again, moving on in time and taking more from Everything that ends And all things end All that we intend Is scrawled in sand And slips right through our hands And just knowing That everything will end Should not change our plans When we begin again We begin again I have never known a silence Like the one fallen here Never watched my future darken in a single tear I know we want this to go easy by being somebody's fault But we've gone long enough to know This isnt what we want And that isn't always bad When people say that something is forever Either way it ends And all things end All that we intend Is scrawled in sand Or slips right through our hands And just knowing That everything will end Should not change our plans When we begin again We begin again We begin again Darling, and all things end All that we intend Is built on sand Slips right through our hands And just knowing That everything will end Won't change our plans When we begin again And all things end (knowing we can start again) All that we intend (knowing we can have another day) Is scrawled in the sand (knowing we can start again) Or slips right through our hands (knowing we can have another day) And just knowing That everything will end Should not charge our plans When we begin again
"We didnt get it right, but love we did our best. AND WE WILL AGAIN." My 13 year marriage is falling apart right now. I listen to this song everyday and this line encourages me that my life isnt completely over.
"i have never known a silence like the one fallen here , never watched my future darken in a single tear . i know we want this to go easy by being somebody's fault, but we've gone long enough to know this isn't what we want, and that isn't always bad"... 😭📀
This came at the right time. I’ve had to suddenly move out of my apartment due to flooding, all while adjusting to a new job and figuring out some personal health issues. But the love of my life is by my side, and our cat is safe. We have so many loved ones helping us too. Nothing is permanent but it just makes the things that matter that much more precious. Stay safe and keep your loved ones so so close, everyone 💜🎵
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Amazed that he can make heartbreak sound like one of the most romantic things you'll ever experience. This is my favorite song on the EP
he made rotting and decomposing corpses being eaten by animals romantic, he's the dude that could do it 😁😁
@@zelbernil3790 it will come back be like "what if you invited a cryptid with codependency issues into your house" and it's the sexiest thing
@@unidentifiedwhistlingobjec6515 I always imagined the creature as a frog
Heartbreak IS one of the most romantic experiences you can have. It shows that you loved fully, and yet you're still here. Your heart feels crushed and broken, a shell of what it used to be, but you're still alive. And you will love again. That is beautiful.
@@unidentifiedwhistlingobjec6515 more like "what if you invited me with abandonment issues into your house"
Its about struggling to get over a breakup, about how every positive interaction they have post breakup reminds the PoV character of their relationship and makes it harder to move on.
This feels like a song that should play during the end credits of a really good movie
I would cry so hard
I had this exact same thought!!
Or a couple dancing with each other, it could also be a backstory scene for the couple sweet memories in film
OMG I KNOW RIGHT I GOT THE SAME VIBES!!
I was thinking more like a backing track for a scene of someone's life flashing before their eyes
"If there was anyone to ever get through this life with their heart still in tact, they didn't do it right"
This might be the most realistic, encouraging yet heart breaking song about relationship that I've ever heard in my life.
Exactly! If you've never experienced heartbreak in your entire life, it probably means that you never opened up yourself to love. Whether it's a lover, parent, sibling, friend, etc. Which also means you've probably never felt the warmth and joy that comes with the relationship. Because grief, especially when felt during the loss of a relationship, is just another form of love. All love is precious, and like all things, it ends.
@@AsheQuinn That reminds me of a quote from a TV Show called WandaVision,
Vision was giving advice to Wanda because she was grieving the loss of her brother and the words he used to comfort her was..
"But what Is grieve If not love persevering"
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@@AsheQuinn When I listen to Hozier's songs, it's the closest I can get to imagining what it's like to feel love.
The choir part at the end made my soul ascend. Such a beautiful song
There’s 1 lady in the choir that really stands out, her voice rings out like it’s coming from heaven itself ahaha I’m obsessed
Lost my mom over a year ago, she really, really loved Hozier. We enjoyed listening to him together. I know this song is about a relationship, but gosh it does feel relevant to me as a grieve her loss still.
wow that's rough. I'm glad that this song can bring you some joy, and I hope that you can find some brighter days soon
This song definitely fits the themes of grief and loss, whether it’s the end of a relationship or the life of a loved one. I’m so sorry for your mother’s loss, that’s incredibly difficult. May all your warm and happy memories with her keep you comfort 🤍
Just remember every song is about whatever message it speaks to you personally.
It is a relationship, even if it isn't a romantic one.
Just lost my father and i had a few losses over the last few years. I was just thinking the same thing. Im about to go into my senior year and im nervous and scared about making connections but it will be worth it in the end. this song has helped me through some rough times this past year. I hope it helped you too, you're never alone, may your mother rest in peace ❤.
I wondered if his blues influence would evolve into an R&B type vibe, it definitely did with this song and I am HERE for it!
When we think about it, his song "Movement" has a bit of that
"When people say that something is forever, either way, it ends"
"And just knowing that everything will end, should not change our plans when we begin again"
This is my favorite Hozier's song....
Thank you.
I ended a very toxic friendship with my best friend last year. Over the past year I’ve tried to convince myself a thousand times that I did the right thing, but I’ve never believed it. I miss her like crazy and have a mountain of guilt for deciding to leave. Yet in the end I know I did the right thing bc we were drowning, one of us had to leave. This song has made me tear up all over again about it. It’s refreshing to hear that it’s okay to not erase the amount of love you have for this person. We had something special, we fucked it up and it’s okay. We did the best we could.
I feel you. Last year I had to drop a friend because he was very toxic. I loved him a lot and enjoyed the time spent for the most part. For a long time I was afraid of losing friends and of opening myself up to new relationships. A year later, I'm making lots of new friends, maintaining healthy boundaries and I now have my first girlfriend! My life now is the best it's ever been. I've learned a lot from that friendship, and I don't regret it anymore
That sounds awful. I've stopped talking altogether with a friend I had known for like more than 10 years. We used to talk everyday but gradually I started feeling like she didn't really enjoy talking with me anymore. I always was the one starting and trying to keep conversations going. I thought I was being paranoid but I stopped reaching out first and the result is that I actually haven't heard from her for a whole year. We didn't even fight or anything. Sometimes things just end for no specific reason. It's really weird and it hurts at first, but... at that point, when you find out things aren't working out, being able to let go is the best and only thing to do, I think. It doesn't mean that the feelings you shared should be forgotten, though. It was good until it lasted, I'll try to cherish the memories and move on.
Something is making me belive that the curse that makes me the Target of a heavy toxic cloud raining on me Is the only thing that wont end like all other things.
I feel this comment so much oh my god, for a moment I thought I wrote it... funny how we got to experience the same thing :,) All I know is that we have to allow ourselves to feel in order to heal, I miss her like crazy too, and I guess that's okay. One day you will get used to their absence and we will feel again, and probably _that_ will end too but... who knows? The more we live, the more we learn. Anyway, it has been 3 months since you commented this, I hope you're feeling better, dear stranger!
I miss my ex best friend too.
When I heard the harmonized sound clip, I cried. My 15- year relationship ended and I am lost. This song perfectly describes what I feel and have felt. Thanks Hozier for releasing this amazing track
Sending you love during your healing process 💕💕
You can do this 💓 I hope this new chapter is full of happiness for you
I am going through the exact same thing as u and ur right, this song hits differently! I've listened to this song literally all day today! 💞
People really cry at anything, huh?
@@jaketomas1234 Oh for God’s sakes grow up. Let people feel however they want to feel
"and just knowing that everything will end, should not change our plans when we begin again" JUST HITS THE RIGHT SPOT
I am crying TEARS of joy. You just dropped my favorite song ever after another song of yours hello??? It’s so good! Thank you Hozier for writing these Godly songs of yours 💓
Bro he’s really got us out here crying tears of joy 🥹❤️
Glad I'm not the one sobbing tears of excitement from this
This song is making me sob. I had to put my two elderly dogs around christmas/new years and just had a conversation about whether or not we could go through that again for new puppies. the line "just knowing that everything will end should not change our plans when we begin again" feels like he's singing to me. I know this song is about a breakup but it feels very relevant still
Oh gosh I feel that. Back in 2018 I lost my first dog. He was 11. It took a lot of time to heal and be ready to accept another puppy into my life. I will treasure every day with him and enjoy every moment. Because everything ends eventually, and though the heartbreak is inevitable... The Joy I've felt knowing him and having him in my life is worth it
Yep. I am having to come to terms with the impending death of my beloved cat (cancer), and that line hit me REAL hard, too. 😢
the song is about whatever your heart sees in it! that line is beautifully applied to losing a pet, especially because we will hopefully love another pet after ours has gone.
This song is about so much more that a breakup.
I lost my turtle and it's killing me 😿
R&B era Hozier 💕
We love to see it 🤭
@@Mar-rh2rv we do😭💕
We stan
@@Mar-rh2rv why do you weirdos say "we"? Just speak for yourself
@@samaraangeline5779 you toxic witter freak. Sto saying "we"
Every one of your songs feels like a religious experience, but better. Thank you.
Sounds like a modern take on 90's R&B with these fabulous gospel choral sounds, I love it. I even hear hints of very early Prince from the 70's with the smooth falsetto. Gotta go buy this new EP. This feeds my ears and soul.
Yes! I thought the same! Just added a dash of nostalgia to all the feelings I experienced listening to it. (I think Usher should cover it! )
This song feels like watching the sunset, shoulders touching, over an oil spill in the ocean. The connection in the face of despair and the desire to go on past the point of no return.
HE NEVER DISAPPOINTS HOW IS IT POSSIBLE 😭
"And all things end" when that music swelled with his voice? I am sobbing for the first time in months
🥹This song is a religious experience. Reminding us of something we know, but always tend to forget. The ephemerality is what makes life and love so beautiful.
"Oh, Crowley... nothing lasts forever."
Why?! Why do you want me to suffer so much, random stranger? 😭
The sword and shield, for all their tempering, no matter how dented and broken, can still begin again and crown a man. Most excellent, Hozier.
this song makes me tingly and fuzzy and warm and the choir at the end??!?!?!!?!? don't even get me started ... immediate tears. this man has a way of creating songs with so much authentic emotion that you feel it everywhere and it stays with you long after any of the songs he's written has ended. a true once in a lifetime artist. mr andrew, you've done it again!!!!
This song gives me "Dancing together while the whole world is catching fire and collapsing on itself" vibes. For we have accepted that it is just the way it's made, that it ends inevitably, and concluded that we might as well keep dancing like we've always done, for there's nothing better we could possibly be doing right now
2:37 catapulted me into the into the heavens and introduced me to every star by name.
Dear Hozier,
I don't know if you are going to read this but I hope this message reaches you. I started listening to your music in 2018, with 'Like Real People Do' and I remember just bawling my eyes out, for almost three hours. 2018 was one of the worst years of my tiny life. But discovering your music was an weird kind of solace, I mean I don't know if it happens to anyone else, but your words felt like, those were meant for me, directed to me, just providing me with the exact amount of respite, not less, definitely not more, to carry on with life. I am a pretty cynical person myself and listening to your music, or rather trying to understand your lyrics, gives a sense of not being alone, of being in a world who ends up weaving poetry and music with what at times clouds my mind, someone who shares a similar stroke of cynicism.
I really love to read, my goal in life is to be capable enough so that all I can do is read, listen to music and watch some good movies. With your music, I love how you hide literary references in your lyrics, I love how you borrow from Yeats, or Heaney or Kavanagh.
So, dear Hozier, thank you for making me a better reader and more than that, thank you for keeping me alive.
PS. Since you enjoy reading poetry, I urge you to read Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali, the prologue of which was written by Yeats himself.
Happy Birthday! 🎉
May you continue to find your solace in music and let me find solace in what you create.
- Sreya.(17/03/23).
This is the most beautiful and honest thing I’ve seen anywhere, written as comment. You are not alone, something so piercing Hozier’s music, speaks directly to your most sacred, invokes the long forgotten - this lifetime or the one’s lived before, depending on layers you hear.
I was the same, I felt it being directed to me, describing what was, what’s to come. Besides, this new EP is the most interesting of all, as Hozier finally uses ‘I’ form, still galant in this, would start by describing a man, and only then mentions the contrast between self and that man.
The true lover, the love he has for his ideal, and does not matter whether the person ever has put her sweet mind upon his deserving chest, at the end of the day, with comments like this, you justify how beautiful of manifest this music is; his genius is.
Like you, I assumed it’s me, back then (actually, March 2018), still struggling but slowly, gradually, hopefully realising that it’s the Universal heart, unconscious made conscious Hozier’s music is, his lyric is.
Just when I wanted to say thank you for the strong and vulnerable, in every ‘I’ of this EP, I realised that me, also, wishing that Hozier would read this, but with no ‘me’ in it; with purable (as clean but needs to be cleaner) love for it.
This man will never be aware of the extent.
I was in uni back in 2018, and had a module called ‘aliveness in arts’, after which I had a strong soul’s urge to follow my true self, find it, make love with it. In less than a week Universe delivered Hozier’s music, I still can’t remember how it all happened, but things have not been the same, ever/ this year I read somewhere that the phenomena of ‘true Self’ is also the same as spiritual growth, and mine is the balancing act between heaven and hell, moral and healing awfully ugly, faith in justice and judgment of failures (my own and those of society).
And finally, wholeness through man, through woman - principles I carry within me.
Hozier has dressed so many people, he will never know how this is possible; how he beats the demons out, breaks, cracks us open, just be describing that tear, his own balancing act. Is it calling?
Ps Perhaps you could think of Hozier’s voice and music, and realise that he had opened another level of understanding, dimension, gateway, like your ears and heart, and that through listening to this genius, you open the genius in oneself. Oh but that genius is you, your true, essential, simple, soul, the gateway to the world, for Hozier, the gateway to God, for some!
It’s funny how I started this morning and am finishing the day with this tune, miraculously, as ringing in my mind, from spirit, saying, please, please… listen and find another layer until you find the gem, that is, your own wisdom, activated, maybe also in him. Love
May you always be the one, as musical muse, as this world becomes your love. Love on, from a bottom of a unconditional, I say!
I hope you feel the same void, same I do, painted somewhere between music and the never fulfilling love for the man in music. I hope you live, live like that, like the most beautiful pain, loving Hozier in arts knowing that he is that. crave yourself also, because he would have craved the dream that's (always) out of reach, something so tangible as paradise and something so distant as Earth.
I used to think Shrike was a song for me, for the amount of soul listening I gave to the man, in terms of Spotify listen amount.
only now I am slowly realising that that art could not fit; that wasn't my story, became lost, without story, and urging surge for another true self emerged.
According to John, just before He mentions Andrew, there is Jesus asking: what ye seek?
Search for or wait, its all the same, its the divine for those who, with major complexity, arrive at simplicity, and seek again.
ps people like you should always know that it is you, essentially, what Hozier created, its so individual in collective my heart breaks i cannot see your divination in art, your music or service, your dress when you go to the park and it rings bells…
Lost and found and lost again.
This is the longest comment i will ever write ❤
but I am glad you have found literature that speaks to you…Just as I found something so mine.
be that giving, be that straw blonde, be that image in your mind when you heard him sing, be the one who found Hozier just after his mid-youth, and be, merciful and sweet, be as you have always been, you'll be the one goddess, careless and free, the life craves to see.
Thank you
@@LondonMageMuse You have expressed the whole oxymoronic existence of the versions of 'me'/ 'I' in Hozier's lyrics so well. Honestly I do love the subtle tons of hopeful despair in his music, he realises the shitty situation of the worldly affairs, the fallacies of the human characters and yet he us hopeful for the infinite possible possibilities. In his earlier released album, in the song, NFWMB, he visualises his lover as being the ultimate powerful being, who just by her existence can postpone the end of the world, by whose sheer presence the destroyer who was slowly creeping towards Bethlehem to be born, changes their course, so he epitomises his lover as the one who transcends even the destroyer of the worlds yet assures to love her despite her positive het negative prowess. The whole, 'Give your heart and soul to charity
'Cause the rest of you
The best of you
Honey, belongs to me'.......
I am sure there existed wonderful lyricists or even better ones of whom I am yet to get acquainted with, but I am in love with the depth of Hozier's works.
@@LondonMageMuse thank you so much. It really quite an realisation when I at times grapple at the fact that yes, in this vast planet, we call home, I am definitely not alone, with my weird heart broken and stupid problems. It boggles my mind how a musician from a tiny country of Ireland, in the far away north can bring together someone from a small north eastern state of India and someone like you who share a similar chain of thoughts for someone's work of art.
Thank you for your wish and I wish you the same.
@@sreyapaul26 The pillars of fire, ascending from the vast depths of waters; the flame like selfless ambition, waters - purified and full.
Today I realised the power of and my love for life, Life; today I am rebirth and that what is birthed!
I received some information today, Shiva and Brahman type of information and mystically enough, my native language is Indo-European language, and in my pursuit of finding the real meaning of god, as in Hozier’s NFWMB, and finding the essential identity of my own being, I have explored my own psyche, I have been a seeker, part tradition, part untouched grounds.
It still puzzles me how artists record, write, perform, and still have a renewed yet phenomenally timeless space they sing from! I have, since digging up Hozier, found other soulful and masterful artists, and the body of work I have listened is my sacred ground!
Now turning inwards, upwards, in faith for God. Non justifiable, non sceptical faith, with curious mind, with confidence and incurable hope for love.
I believe in pairs, blessed the day Hozier’s presence in the world, and my investigation of music led me to knowing that we, in fact, are part of the plan. 💛
Praise our Lord and Savior, Hozier 🙏💕
All hail the God of the Forest!
Ah men
@@HitomiKitage 😂 wild
This songs heals somehow my fear of rejection and relationships.. I finally want to fall in and out of love. I want to discover this bittersweet emotion of the ending.. Thank you.
the way the music cuts out on the word "silence" is perfect
Seeing plenty of people here just like me, recently losing a long-term relationship (~9 years for me) and reveling in the heartbroken hope that this song envelops us in. We got this tho! Never forget to love yourself. We're gonna make it.
The ending of this song is one the most beautiful things I've ever heard, their voices are so perfect and harmonized with so many layers it's amazing! If you don't have goosebumps listening to this, just get a pair of good headphones and turn up your volume, you'll feel it.
Happy Birthday Andrew. Hope you have the best day, and thank you for the new music.
New Hozier music is like the first day of summer vacation as a child.
Who gave this god of the forest permission to give me ALL the feels with this song? It's my favorite song so far. We'll see if it holds its spot once the full album comes out.
I have a feeling the studio version of Unknown will be up there too
I was convinced this was a cover of a song that already existed because it sounds so timeless. Bravo, good sir.
New song to have on repeat 🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾
I’ve already started 😅
So it doesn't have to end?
@@thehalfwaypoint AAAAAAAYYYYYYY NICE
I've been grinding these 3 songs all day long ngl. It just came at the very right moment. Forest Jesus dropping his light on us again 🙌
@@nemviquem right!!
This song is a soothing salve over the finally healing part of my heart that has been grieving the loss of my first love over this past winter.
"We didn't get it right, but we love, we did our best"
“I have never known a silence like the one fallen here, never watched my future darken in a single tear” 😭💕my favorite line I swear so good I love his work so much
This song makes me warm and fuzzy and I don’t know how to feel about it 😭💛
This song hits you in so many ways. This man has a way of gripping on to the parts of you that were hidden and bringing them straight out into the sunlight. I really can't 💕
"And I would shun the light, Share in evenings cool and quiet. Who would trade that hum of night? For Sunlight, Sunlight Sunlight" -Hozier
I don’t know how but he captured my childhood memories. My parents would play R&B stations while my brother and I fell asleep in the back seat on long trips. The hymn vibes take me to church (no pun intended) listening to my dad and grandpa line hymnals during service and the choir would finish the song.
When he sent us to church at the end I literally couldn’t hold back the tears ! I LOVE YOU HOZIER
The way the music drops for a beat when talking about silence is magic.
how does this man manage to release music with the exact message i need at the exact time i need it most. and it's always so good???? he never fails never misses and i am so glad for that. like yes everything ends but that's not a sad thing because the temporary is still beautiful and worth the love and effort we put into it because we love and grow and learn. say that king
Hozier delivers once more with another soulful performance. Absolute legend.
The wait was so worth it. This sounds beautiful
This song perfectly depicts the five stages of grief, denial, anger, depression, bargaining, and finally acceptance. And it’s doing wonders for the grief I’m currently dealing with. It’s a perfect articulation of how I’ve been feeling recently.
This feels like a religous experience
I'm actually so in love with this
THIS IS THE MOST UNDERRATED SONG IN THE HISTORY OF UNDERRATED SONGS!!!!
The last 3rd of this straight up made me levitate.
you captured the essence of the human soul and it’s so broken and beautiful in a way i can’t even describe.
AHHHHH MORE MASTERPIECES IM CRYING
He makes heartbreak sound so beautiful. Not giving up on each other just because you know nothing lasts forever is so important.
“I know we want this to go easy by being somebody’s fault, but we’ve gone long enough to know this isn’t what we want.”
This is a great EP! That line: “If there was anyone to ever get through this life with their heart still intact, they didn’t do it right.” Lyrical Gold. Thank you!
"with their heart still intact, they didn't do it right" 🤩🥰
I was in the stages of accepting a break up was imminent right as this song came out. Made things a bit easier, and we were able to split amicably. And maybe we will begin again, and maybe it will end again. Everything does.
As a Sophmore losing all of my Senior bestfriends and mentors. This is gonna hit me so hard after they leave. Thank you Andrew for everything you have created and gave us. WE LOVE YOU!❤
Jesus… this man. The voice. The lyrics. The music. Always perfection.
hozier slays🇬🇧🇬🇧
Happy birthday, Andrew , once again devastatingly beautiful
A true poet, brilliant songwriter and talented singer: Hozier has it all
how can he sound extremely romantic while singing such a heart breaking song?? i'm in love but i'm also crying... what a masterpiece!! ❤🔥
Going through all the new songs, we have been fed! Also I yelled to much when these all dropped at once I scared my roommate 😂
The buildup to the chorus gave me shivers
I just ended a 5+ year relationship with someone who was once my best friend. We grew up together and planned a life together… but things weren’t working for a long time. This song births hope and peace in me and all my sadness…
This is an Absolute BANGER !!!!! On repeat I love this man’s music beyond a description of word Hozier does not miss! Instant classic ❤
[Verse 1]
A two-tonne weight around my chest feels like
It just dropped a twenty-storey height
If there was anyone to ever get through this life
With their heart still intact, they didn't do it right
The last time I felt your weight on my chest, you said
"We didn't get it right but, love, we did our best"
[Pre-Chorus]
And we will again
Moving on in time and taking more from
Everything that ends
[Chorus]
And all things end
All that we intend is scrawled in sand
And slips right through our hands
And just knowing
That everything will end
Should not change our plans
When wе begin again
[Post-Chorus]
We begin again, hmm-mm
[Verse 2]
I havе never known a silence like the one fallen here
Never watched my future darken in a single tear
I know we want this to go easy by being somebody's fault
But we've gone long enough to know this isn't what we want
And that isn't always bad
[Pre-Chorus]
When people say that something is forever
Either way, it ends
[Chorus]
And all things end
All that we intend is scrawled in sand
Or slips right through our hands
And just knowing
That everything will end
We should not change our plans
When we begin again
[Bridge]
We begin again
We begin again, hm-mm
Darling
[Chorus]
And all things end
All that we intend is built on sand
Slips right through our hands
And just knowing
That everything will end
Won't change our plans
When we begin again
[Outro]
And all things end (Knowing we can always start again)
All that we intend (Knowing we have another day)
Is scrawled in sand (Knowing we can always start again)
Or slips right through our hands (Knowing we have another day)
And just knowing (Knowing we can always start again)
That everything will end
Should not change our plans
When we begin again
I scrolled a bit until I found your post😂❤ thank you!! I always look for the lyrics, so I can sing along!
@@medeea8078 No problem ❤️
I have listened to this song so, so much since it dropped. My favorite of this single by far! The bittersweet hope, the acknowledgement sometimes it isn't anybody's fault, the choral vocals with the backing track dropping out at the end. Sublime.
Thank you so much Andrew! For your music, and for this lyric video! I really appreciate it
Thank you this song is absolutely stunning. Not only does it captures the essence of Hozier’s musical genius it also portrays his ability to create songs that are both profound and beautiful. I love how he uses his voice and his words to convey the emotions of the narrator, who has experienced a heartbreaking separation but also a hopeful renewal.
The other day a friend of mine disagreed with me about Hozier's music not being haunting and now I see how - It’s haunting, but in a good way. It’s deep and meaningful and beautiful. It makes me feel things that other music can’t. Life is complex and diverse and unpredictable. Life has its dark sides as well as its bright sides. Life has its beauty as well as its horror. He doesn’t ignore the horror. He acknowledges it, he confronts it, he challenges it, he transcends it, by finding beauty in the horror, by finding hope in the despair, by finding light in the darkness.
He makes me feel every nuance of their pain, their acceptance, their gratitude and their optimism. He also makes me admire their courage and their wisdom in facing the reality of life and love. This song is a masterpiece of lyrical poetry and soulful melody. It touches my heart and lifts my spirit. I can’t get enough of it. Thank you again, it really is very beautiful.
This song just got that nail right on in representing the stance of humanity towards the ups and downs of life, it appeals to the soul straight up.
Though 'Eat Your Young' is the catchiest one in the EP, this is the one with the prettiest lyrics. Telling about a split-up in the most mature way Hozier could portray: like, yeah, it didn't work but we did our best, we enjoyed it and that doesn't mean we can't be together again someday if the chance comes.
I LOVE IT.
FAVE.
The last minute has my eyes rolling to the BACK of my head 😭 I'm truly deceased
This is giving me so many 80s R&B vibes. I wish he would talk us through each track with his thoughts and inspirations like he used to 💚 All of these new songs have such a haunting, slow burn element. I love them more and more with each listen.
The ending, woahhhhhh. I'm feeling the choir.
I heard this song for the first time today. Hozier has an amazing way with words. It seems so simple but means so much. This is such beautiful song.
I love me some Hozier. He has such a strong and clear voice. Love this one. Just updated my Spotify. ❤❤❤
Hozier is so kind and generous. This EP released on March 17th 2023, which was Hozier's 33rd birthday. He has the goodness of spirit to give us multiple presents on his own dang birthday!!!
I know it's primarily a love song, but this song gives me so much comfort when I'm down, and it makes me feel grateful for things when they are going okay. It's my favourite song because after several failures, it gives me a lot of hope.
This song just feels like acceptance, closure. “We begin again” it makes you feel like anything’s possible and you can always begin again. All things end, so cherish the good things in your life
I especially love this one. It gives me the good goosebumps.
He just never misses 😭🙌 truly the most talented lyricist I've ever heard.
This song brings me heartache
most hozier songs make me feel like i'm in a forest cottage or a rowdy but warm country tavern but this one makes me feel alone in a high-rise apartment, overlooking a dark city skyline, rain beating on my window, two glasses poured but only one drunk.. and it's the 1990's.
Love that alt gospel sound!!!
Never thought to call it alt gospel before, I love it
A two tonne weight around my chest feels like
It just dropped a twenty story height
If there was anyone to ever get through this life
With their hearts still intact, they didn't do it right
The last time I felt your weight on my chest you said "we didn't get it right but love we did our best"
And we will again, moving on in time and taking more from
Everything that ends
And all things end
All that we intend
Is scrawled in sand
And slips right through our hands
And just knowing
That everything will end
Should not change our plans
When we begin again
We begin again
I have never known a silence
Like the one fallen here
Never watched my future darken in a single tear
I know we want this to go easy by being somebody's fault
But we've gone long enough to know
This isnt what we want
And that isn't always bad
When people say that something is forever
Either way it ends
And all things end
All that we intend
Is scrawled in sand
Or slips right through our hands
And just knowing
That everything will end
Should not change our plans
When we begin again
We begin again
We begin again
Darling, and all things end
All that we intend
Is built on sand
Slips right through our hands
And just knowing
That everything will end
Won't change our plans
When we begin again
And all things end (knowing we can start again)
All that we intend (knowing we can have another day)
Is scrawled in the sand (knowing we can start again)
Or slips right through our hands (knowing we can have another day)
And just knowing
That everything will end
Should not charge our plans
When we begin again
I swear, this man cannot put out a song that isn't any less than perfection
The goosebumps. THE GOOSEBUMPS.
This particular song of Hozier almost got me teary eyed, idk why? It strucks my soul, this is rnb in Hozier style.
"We didnt get it right, but love we did our best. AND WE WILL AGAIN."
My 13 year marriage is falling apart right now. I listen to this song everyday and this line encourages me that my life isnt completely over.
AHHHHH YESSSSS
I really hope that they release a live recording/music video for this one, would love to see Hozier with the choir
This song really take me to church~ Amen 🙏
"i have never known a silence like the one fallen here , never watched my future darken in a single tear .
i know we want this to go easy by being somebody's fault,
but we've gone long enough to know this isn't what we want,
and that isn't always bad"... 😭📀
This came at the right time. I’ve had to suddenly move out of my apartment due to flooding, all while adjusting to a new job and figuring out some personal health issues.
But the love of my life is by my side, and our cat is safe. We have so many loved ones helping us too.
Nothing is permanent but it just makes the things that matter that much more precious.
Stay safe and keep your loved ones so so close, everyone 💜🎵
Songs listened too (2/3) so good Istg, Hozier never disappoints. keep making this wonderful music
Once again hozier has appeared to give us the best music to ever exist.
The melody in the chorus...sigh! The gift of your voice and lyrics is unparalleled xx
Bill withers vibes in all the right ways. I love this new direction stylistically. Fucking legend.
This is so powerful , I’m crying , just beautiful