It is definitely referencing Icarus story but the meaning , message and emotion is completely different. It's like Icarus story sets the scene but this song is about so much more than that
My kids are grown but I thought the exact same if they were small I would have sang this to them. I used to sing blowers daughter by damien rice to them this was pre Hozier ❤
Lyrics If the wind turns If I hit a squall Allow the ground to find its brutal way to me
I feel lighter than I have in so much time I’ve crossed the borderline of weightless One deep breath out from the sky I’ve reached a rarer height now That I can confirm All our weight is just a burden Offered to us by the world
And though I burn How could I fall? When I am lifted by every word you say to me If anything could fall at all It’s the world that falls away from me
You have me floating like a feather on the sea While you’re as heavy as the world That you hold your hands beneath Once I wondered What was holding up the ground But I can see that all along, love It was you all the way down
Leave it now, I am skybound If you need to, darling Lean your weight to me We’ll float away But if we fall, I only pray Don’t fall away from me
I do not have wings, love I never will Soaring over a world you are carrying If these heights should bring my fall Let me be your own Icarian carrion
If the wind turns If I hit a squall Allow the ground to find its brutal way to me If I should fall on that day I only pray Don’t fall away from me
This song has my favourite lyrics on the whole album: 'How could I fall? When I am lifted by every word you say' '...it was you all the way down' 'I am sky bound, if you need to darling, lean your weight to me' 'I only pray, don't fall away from me' Argh, Such a beautiful song ❤❤
"And though I burn, how could I fall, when I am lifted by every word you say to me, if anything could fall at all, it's the world that falls away from me." Please put this man's entire collection of works in a museum. Please. I'll be weeping in the corner. Perfection.
"I do not have wings, love I never will Soaring over a world you are carrying If these heights should bring my fall Let me be your own Icarian carrion" Love the subtle callback to Sunlight :]
I heard this song the first time at a concert. My friend died the previous day. He had a surfing accident. He fell broke from the wave. Broke his neck and had a heart attack. He was pulled from the water, but died from his injuries. I cried during the concert I just thought of my friend of how he always floated above the sea and now he’s floating away from all of us.😢😢 I love you, Paul.
Last week, my father was diagnosed with small cell lung cancer with metastasis to the brain and other organs. My family and I are beyond devastated. I woke up in the middle of the night last Friday just… so broken. I remembered this album (which I’ve been so excited about) had released and I listened to it hoping it would bring my mind a little distraction. When I heard this song for the first time, I completely lost it thinking about my daddy. This song/ album has been my lifeline this week amidst this nightmare of heartbreak, stress, and unknowns. Thank you, Hozier. I hope one day to make music that does for others what yours has done for me 🖤
I hope you and your family are doing ok. I’m so sorry about your dad. I do understand that devastating feeling that comes with loving so much. I saw Hozier last night with my daughter who introduced his music to me. Icarian touches my soul so deeply. I came across your message as I searched to listen to it again. I just wanted you to know that someone out there is praying for you. 💞
@@lanamichellesmyrk1271 thank you so much for the prayers. My sweet dad passed away a few months ago after a tough battle. We miss him so much. It’s wild to read my comment again and remember where I was emotionally at that time. I’m glad you found Hozier’s music and that it resonates with you so deeply as it did me. What a treat - He is incredible to see/ hear live! I hope to see him again very soon and to hear this song in particular. Blessings to you!
This sounds like feathers torn away by the rush of the wind. Hair flying in the sunlight, limbs spinning through the atmosphere. It sounds like the peaceful soil eager to embrace you once again. Hands laced into thin air, holding everything.
I don't know if I should feel happy because this song exists or sad because maybe no one ever will feel that way about me, and maybe I won't feel that way about anyone, I love you Andrew ❤
@@lakeforest5362 thank you, that makes sense, since I think the song reflects so much devotion, that's why I was thinking maybe I won't feel that way about anyone, but I'm not a religious person either 😅
the second listen has me in tears over my morning coffee. the ambitious one, Icarius, and the ride or die, Atlas. basically, if I fail at my goals, eat my body to nourish yourself. I think it's a dynamic in many relationships that there is an Icarius that takes the glory/blame and an Atlas that is taken for granted and forgotten despite their heavy burdens.
Hello world!!! His voice is just pure love, joy, humanity, art, and everything that is sacred about all of us. Thank you Hozier for giving so much to our souls.
I will wait a lifetime for every Hozier album if it means we always get such amazing songs. My diction is always at a loss when I'm truly blown away. Amazing is not enough to describe this album, but for now it will have to do.
I cant do this, who gave this man the right to be such a genius “Once I wondered what was holding up the ground But I can see that all along, love, it was you all the way down THIS SONG IS SO GOOD 😭😭
Imagine somehow breaking his heart, and then this album drops to haunt you until eternity.... gosh..... 💕❤🩹so much beauty, it can be nothing but painfully gorgeous!!! 🌼
I just listened to this on the album for the first time. I’m wrecked ! I can’t even describe what this song made me feel. I had to stop listening to the album for a while so I can process this. 💔 it is a truly difficult song to listen to when a person is just single for a long stretch of time. It’s beautiful and painful!
A song that can encompass all the beautiful unrequited love stories of human (especially the homosexual ones).. God this is sooo beautiful. I m crying.
Started listening to Hozier because of someone and now i can't stop adding every hozier song I stumble upon to my playlist 😅 if fate allows 10 years from now hope you're my solace D......
The part when he says "I do not have wings, love I never will".... I freaking cried in a public bus....!!!!! Nooooooo... Everyone around me was looking at me...
I feel lighter than I have in so much time I've crossed the border line of weightless One deep breath out from the sky I've reached a rarer height now that I can confirm All our weight is just a burden offered to us by the world And though I burn how could I fall? When I am lifted by every word you say to me If anything could fall at all, it's the world That falls away from me You have me floatin' like a feather on the sea While you're as heavy as the world That you hold your hands beneath Once I had wondered what was holdin' up the ground But I can see that all along, love, it was you all the way down Leave it now, I am sky-bound If you need to, darling, lean your weight to me We'll float away, but if we fall I only pray, don't fall away from me I do not have wings, love, I never will Soarin' over a world you are carryin' If these heights should bring my fall Let me be your own Icarian carrion If the wind turns, if I hit a squall Allow the ground to find its brutal way to me If I should fall, on that day I only pray, don't fall away from me
I sent this to my twin flame; 15 years of loving each other and holding each other up in our worst times even when it was the others fault. Even though I’ll never know your love again, I’ll live in solitude my whole life just to keep that love I feel for them pure.
Me and my love based our relationship on Sunlight, to hear this song. It makes me think about my eventual passing, and I promise my love that I'll be her icarian carrion.
You stand on the edge of a cliff, watching the waves crash far below. He stands next to you, arm tossed around your shoulders, and for the first time everything feels calm. Every breath is a gift as the wind tosses your hair around. It smacks into your face and he laughs, doubling over as you indignantly screech. You turn red and plop down on the ground, drowning your sorrows in the flowers that now surround you. After a second, he sits down too, plucking a lily from the grass. A slight smile passes your face and you lean over. He moves away. You give him a questioning glance, and a sad look appears in his eyes. He holds up his hand, and you go to take it. Your hand passes through his. He is fading again. You gasp, tears welling in your eyes, but nothing can save him...or you. Golden wings appear on his back, and he topples backwards in the dark waves. Your body falls back, and dissolves into the flowers, carrion once more.
it's always my goal to fully understand every lyric in a hozier song. i've enjoyed this song for a while, but now that i'm finally starting a relationship with someone i'd been thinking about for a long time, this song makes perfect sense
Lovely and very touching song. I became emotional when Andrew performed it live (I struggle with social anxiety and avpd and felt at ease at the concert, even though I was by myself, so it was a very meaningful moment for me and the song in some captured that with its focus on weightlessness and the falling away of burdens) ❤ The song would also fit right into the Life is Strange game soundtrack
OK. I listened to the frst song and said "No song can compare". This is the fourth song and I have on repeat. Dont think I will get to the end. Play son repeat, play song repeat. Genius.
This is the most beautifully tragic song I have ever heard. Not only does it reference two of my favorite Greek Myths (Icarus and Atlas), but it is also my favorite feeling.
Pensé que Hozier era Take Me To Church pero después de descubrir su discografía me he quedado embobado. Y esta canción es… es…. Demasiado. Me hace sentir triste 😢. Que bella letra, poesía pura
I can't stop listening to all of Unreal Unearth, I even covered the Eat Your Young because I can't get it out of my head, he's just such an amazing songwriter & vocalist 😭😭
to quote some of my gen z students, I am, "screaming/crying/throwing up". ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh this song is so beautiful
I second that lol
As a member of gen z I can confirm that I am in fact screaming, crying and throwing up.
so true
❤❤❤ this is a Taylor Swift reference btw! "screaming, crying, perfect storms - I can make all the tables turn"
@@Ami36015 it's not a taylor swift reference 😭😭
only hozier could somehow turn icarus’ death into a love song. he’s so incredibly talented
I don't think this is about Icarus
It's just one of the most beautiful songs Ive heard
It is definitely referencing Icarus story but the meaning , message and emotion is completely different. It's like Icarus story sets the scene but this song is about so much more than that
He already referenced it in Sunlight so this kind of thing is par for the course lol.
How can I be like him?
“But if we fall, I only pray don’t fall away from me”
I am in pieces this song has BROKE me
This line breaks me.
the don’t fall away from me got my soul!!!
if you listen closely, you can hear my knees buckle and hit the floor in despair
i feel that
Valid
the good omens edits to this are going to be absolutely devastating
THEYRE GONNA KILL US
I know what I must do
Yeeeeees
Oh goddddd😢
Why was I thinking of good omens while listening to this whole album 😭
"I do not have the wings, love
I never will"
I can't stop sobbing over this part, oh my god
(not so) casually crying over that line
SAME
I don’t know why it hurts so MUCH
This feels like a lullaby. I want to learn it so I can sing it to my kids when I am older
Wonderful idea, I'll do the same
I don’t think I’ll ever be able to have kids of my own, but I’m going to learn this song for my niece and nephew :)
My kids are grown but I thought the exact same if they were small I would have sang this to them. I used to sing blowers daughter by damien rice to them this was pre Hozier ❤
Lyrics
If the wind turns
If I hit a squall
Allow the ground to find its brutal way to me
I feel lighter than I have in so much time
I’ve crossed the borderline of weightless
One deep breath out from the sky
I’ve reached a rarer height now
That I can confirm
All our weight is just a burden
Offered to us by the world
And though I burn How could I fall?
When I am lifted by every word you say to me
If anything could fall at all
It’s the world that falls away from me
You have me floating like a feather on the sea While you’re as heavy as the world
That you hold your hands beneath
Once I wondered
What was holding up the ground
But I can see that all along, love
It was you all the way down
Leave it now,
I am skybound
If you need to, darling
Lean your weight to me
We’ll float away
But if we fall, I only pray
Don’t fall away from me
I do not have wings, love
I never will
Soaring over a world you are carrying
If these heights should bring my fall
Let me be your own
Icarian carrion
If the wind turns
If I hit a squall
Allow the ground to find its brutal way to me
If I should fall on that day
I only pray
Don’t fall away from me
Thank you!
thank you :)
I feel this way about my wife. My one true love Sondi.
Muito obrigada!
Thank you❤❤❤
This song has my favourite lyrics on the whole album:
'How could I fall? When I am lifted by every word you say'
'...it was you all the way down'
'I am sky bound, if you need to darling, lean your weight to me'
'I only pray, don't fall away from me'
Argh, Such a beautiful song ❤❤
"And though I burn, how could I fall, when I am lifted by every word you say to me, if anything could fall at all, it's the world that falls away from me."
Please put this man's entire collection of works in a museum. Please. I'll be weeping in the corner. Perfection.
❤❤❤❤
Crying on the floor. Letting this man sing the sweetest, most tragic lines of poetry to me.
"I do not have wings, love
I never will
Soaring over a world you are carrying
If these heights should bring my fall
Let me be your own
Icarian carrion"
Love the subtle callback to Sunlight :]
I heard this song the first time at a concert. My friend died the previous day. He had a surfing accident. He fell broke from the wave. Broke his neck and had a heart attack. He was pulled from the water, but died from his injuries. I cried during the concert I just thought of my friend of how he always floated above the sea and now he’s floating away from all of us.😢😢 I love you, Paul.
when he said "i do not have wings, love i never will" UGHHHHH like a punch to the gut
Every time I think I’ve picked a favorite song I hear the next one and change my mind
Last week, my father was diagnosed with small cell lung cancer with metastasis to the brain and other organs. My family and I are beyond devastated. I woke up in the middle of the night last Friday just… so broken. I remembered this album (which I’ve been so excited about) had released and I listened to it hoping it would bring my mind a little distraction. When I heard this song for the first time, I completely lost it thinking about my daddy. This song/ album has been my lifeline this week amidst this nightmare of heartbreak, stress, and unknowns. Thank you, Hozier. I hope one day to make music that does for others what yours has done for me 🖤
I hope you and your family are doing ok. I’m so sorry about your dad. I do understand that devastating feeling that comes with loving so much.
I saw Hozier last night with my daughter who introduced his music to me. Icarian touches my soul so deeply. I came across your message as I searched to listen to it again. I just wanted you to know that someone out there is praying for you. 💞
@@lanamichellesmyrk1271 thank you so much for the prayers. My sweet dad passed away a few months ago after a tough battle. We miss him so much. It’s wild to read my comment again and remember where I was emotionally at that time. I’m glad you found Hozier’s music and that it resonates with you so deeply as it did me. What a treat - He is incredible to see/ hear live! I hope to see him again very soon and to hear this song in particular. Blessings to you!
This is giving Good Omens
“ I do not have wings, love
I never will,
Soaring over the world you are carrion (carrying)”
IM SOBBING SO HARD RN
I hope the good omens fandom has fun with this song
Girl you don't know want to know about my obsession with this ok? Replaying this over has got me choking at how good this is
This sounds like feathers torn away by the rush of the wind. Hair flying in the sunlight, limbs spinning through the atmosphere. It sounds like the peaceful soil eager to embrace you once again. Hands laced into thin air, holding everything.
i love how you described it
Does anyone just love whenever Hozier says 'Darlin'? Obsessed
I can't stop crying. This song brims with the best of humanity.
same here. I'm sobbing
Yes, indeed. That’s what forest daddy does…
🖤✨🖤
I don't know if I should feel happy because this song exists or sad because maybe no one ever will feel that way about me, and maybe I won't feel that way about anyone, I love you Andrew ❤
Don't be sad, stay on the bright side of the road. Stop looking for love, be yourself and love will find you.❤
@@cjmc123 thank you for your kind words 🤗
I don't think this is a love song about a person. It's probably about God. So don't worry
Love is not something you go searching for if it is where you are from
@@lakeforest5362 thank you, that makes sense, since I think the song reflects so much devotion, that's why I was thinking maybe I won't feel that way about anyone, but I'm not a religious person either 😅
I have no words for how beautiful this is. It’s filled with such a gentle glory.
damn, this is making me feel the kind of emotion that I'll probably only understand and name after about 1000 listens
the second listen has me in tears over my morning coffee. the ambitious one, Icarius, and the ride or die, Atlas. basically, if I fail at my goals, eat my body to nourish yourself. I think it's a dynamic in many relationships that there is an Icarius that takes the glory/blame and an Atlas that is taken for granted and forgotten despite their heavy burdens.
Hello world!!! His voice is just pure love, joy, humanity, art, and everything that is sacred about all of us. Thank you Hozier for giving so much to our souls.
NO MAN DOES IT LIKE HOZIER
i always cry to this song
I will wait a lifetime for every Hozier album if it means we always get such amazing songs. My diction is always at a loss when I'm truly blown away. Amazing is not enough to describe this album, but for now it will have to do.
I cant do this, who gave this man the right to be such a genius
“Once I wondered what was holding up the ground
But I can see that all along, love, it was you all the way down
THIS SONG IS SO GOOD 😭😭
Immediate tears. Oh my goodness what a world we live in that graces us with his sound. I never want to leave
Icarus references and Hozier are HEAVENLY✨
THIS SONG IS SO BEAUTIFUL WTH SIR I'M CRYING 😭
this is the sequel to sunlight that i didn't know i needed
MELTS.... into a puddle..... this is so beautiful.
Collective puddle… 🫠🫠🫠
Imagine somehow breaking his heart, and then this album drops to haunt you until eternity.... gosh..... 💕❤🩹so much beauty, it can be nothing but painfully gorgeous!!! 🌼
I have such a hard time grasping any woman breaking this man's heart. What more could anyone want in a man? I breaks my heart for him.
@@musiclover-cu5jy right!!
This songs got my sobbing like a baby. It's bringing tears and solace as we prepare to say goodbye to my Pawpaw
I just listened to this on the album for the first time. I’m wrecked ! I can’t even describe what this song made me feel. I had to stop listening to the album for a while so I can process this. 💔 it is a truly difficult song to listen to when a person is just single for a long stretch of time. It’s beautiful and painful!
This song touches my soul in the ways only Hozier and heart wrenching feelings that I've never experienced in real life can.
If we fall, I only pray, Dont fall away from me. Beautiful.
Sounds like an angel singing to me
It’s almost Hozier season 🍂🤎
A song that can encompass all the beautiful unrequited love stories of human (especially the homosexual ones).. God this is sooo beautiful. I m crying.
I paint to your music as I die…it helps me to embrace the spark of life so fragile. Thank you for this river.
I think this is the most beautiful song I've heard in such a long long time
Favorite song from the album, a lullaby for your soul.
this song oml
“You have me floating like a feather on the sea, while you are as heavy as the world that you hold your hands beneath” I am going to be SICK
He's truly a modern Bard
Of all the new songs this is the one I've hit replay on the most. It's so pretty and the lyrics somehow never lose their impact 😭❤
I started crying when I saw the songs uploaded 😭😭
This song is so incredibly beautiful, it signifies the vulnerability one faces when being deeply in love
i want to love like this song makes me feel
Started listening to Hozier because of someone and now i can't stop adding every hozier song I stumble upon to my playlist 😅 if fate allows 10 years from now hope you're my solace D......
Hozier, i ❤ your beautiful voice, arrangements & lyrics, so much. ❣️
This is the most beautiful song that ever existed
It's hits me where it hurts.
When i was lifted by every word you said to me😢... Its the world that falls away from me🕊️🤍
The part when he says "I do not have wings, love I never will".... I freaking cried in a public bus....!!!!! Nooooooo... Everyone around me was looking at me...
I feel lighter than I have in so much time
I've crossed the border line of weightless
One deep breath out from the sky
I've reached a rarer height now that I can confirm
All our weight is just a burden offered to us by the world
And though I burn how could I fall?
When I am lifted by every word you say to me
If anything could fall at all, it's the world
That falls away from me
You have me floatin' like a feather on the sea
While you're as heavy as the world
That you hold your hands beneath
Once I had wondered what was holdin' up the ground
But I can see that all along, love, it was you all the way down
Leave it now, I am sky-bound
If you need to, darling, lean your weight to me
We'll float away, but if we fall
I only pray, don't fall away from me
I do not have wings, love, I never will
Soarin' over a world you are carryin'
If these heights should bring my fall
Let me be your own
Icarian carrion
If the wind turns, if I hit a squall
Allow the ground to find its brutal way to me
If I should fall, on that day
I only pray, don't fall away from me
I sent this to my twin flame; 15 years of loving each other and holding each other up in our worst times even when it was the others fault. Even though I’ll never know your love again, I’ll live in solitude my whole life just to keep that love I feel for them pure.
sobbing on the first listen already.... thank you so much Hozier
i want this song to play on my wedding. thank you
This song is stuck in my head… and I couldn’t ask for anything better
I think this one's gonna be my favorite
I end my day at 00.00 with Hozier saying "Don't fall away from me.."
Me and my love based our relationship on Sunlight, to hear this song. It makes me think about my eventual passing, and I promise my love that I'll be her icarian carrion.
this song is my current "comfort song"
He's way too good
Well done son
Well done
Leave it now,
I am skybound
If you need to, darling
Lean your weight to me
We’ll float away
But if we fall, I only pray
Don’t fall away from me 💚
These are my favorite lines.
Definitely not crying
The best song ever and the best lyrics. The best Andrew. I want a live version so badly 🙏🙏🙏
I only pray don’t fall away from me
You stand on the edge of a cliff, watching the waves crash far below. He stands next to you, arm tossed around your shoulders, and for the first time everything feels calm. Every breath is a gift as the wind tosses your hair around. It smacks into your face and he laughs, doubling over as you indignantly screech. You turn red and plop down on the ground, drowning your sorrows in the flowers that now surround you. After a second, he sits down too, plucking a lily from the grass. A slight smile passes your face and you lean over. He moves away. You give him a questioning glance, and a sad look appears in his eyes. He holds up his hand, and you go to take it. Your hand passes through his.
He is fading again.
You gasp, tears welling in your eyes, but nothing can save him...or you.
Golden wings appear on his back, and he topples backwards in the dark waves.
Your body falls back, and dissolves into the flowers, carrion once more.
I absolutely sobbed when I first heard this song and I haven't been able to listen to it without tearing up ever since.
So gentle 😭
icarus metaphors in songs get me ROCK HARD (metaphorically)
This is the most beautiful song I think I've ever heard
IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE SINCE I SAW IT LIVE❤️❤️
this is my favourite on the album so far
it's always my goal to fully understand every lyric in a hozier song. i've enjoyed this song for a while, but now that i'm finally starting a relationship with someone i'd been thinking about for a long time, this song makes perfect sense
I,TOO!
I'm in love with this melody ♥️ . Hozier, you always take my heart .
this song is so?? amazing?? i love it so so much
Currently sobbing this is beautiful
Ok, i'm crying and I'm so happy right now
My ears are blessed
His pouring his broken heart out. 😢❤
Lovely and very touching song. I became emotional when Andrew performed it live (I struggle with social anxiety and avpd and felt at ease at the concert, even though I was by myself, so it was a very meaningful moment for me and the song in some captured that with its focus on weightlessness and the falling away of burdens) ❤ The song would also fit right into the Life is Strange game soundtrack
Hello there Lisa nice meeting you here
@@justiceharrison5142 Hi Justice! Nice to meet you too :) what's your favourite song from the new album?
@@Lisa-qt4hh I carrion is my favorite song. How are you doing today?
Ok. If someone felt the way the singer of this song feels about their someone, I may just remember life is not so bad. Maybe.
OK. I listened to the frst song and said "No song can compare". This is the fourth song and I have on repeat. Dont think I will get to the end. Play son repeat, play song repeat. Genius.
This song is beautiful.
This album is so good and this song brings tear to my eyes. So beautiful 🥺 well done hozier, you did it again
This song makes me cry everytime
A love song between Icarus and Atlas? I love the Greek mythology references in his songs lately
This is the most beautifully tragic song I have ever heard. Not only does it reference two of my favorite Greek Myths (Icarus and Atlas), but it is also my favorite feeling.
Hello Good Omens fandom
Listening to this song in person was indescribable
This sounds like a new hyperfixation song..... 😭💜
Pensé que Hozier era Take Me To Church pero después de descubrir su discografía me he quedado embobado. Y esta canción es… es…. Demasiado. Me hace sentir triste 😢. Que bella letra, poesía pura
I can't stop listening to all of Unreal Unearth, I even covered the Eat Your Young because I can't get it out of my head, he's just such an amazing songwriter & vocalist 😭😭
Hello there Tay nice meeting you here
I’m so exited!!!!! OMG I CANT WAIT TO SEE HIM LIVE!!!!!