hozier has the most beautiful lyrics. “i slithered here from eden just to sit outside your door,” meaning the woman he loves is so much better than heaven. the song in itself, him singing about the circumstances he gave up to see her. him sitting outside her door, such a (1/?)

mundane act, because she is that much more to him. “as a shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn” referring to the bird which impales its prey on thorns, implying that just as the shrike needs its thorns to survive, he needs his love. “hung like the pelt of some prey you(2/?)

had worn,” talking about how pelts are shown as a symbol of a successful hunt, the shrike is the hunter, and the prey are the pelt on the belt of thorn. if his love is the thorn, then he is the prey. he is victim to his love. “but i’m flying like a bird to you now” (3/?)

because he can’t stay away from her. “i’d be the voice that urged orpheous” in reference to the greek myth, i can’t even get into why this is incredible because this thread would be so much longer than it already is. “honey you’re atlas in his sleepin’” comparing his lover (4/?)

to atlas, who holds the weight of the world on his shoulders. she is effortless, much as atlas holds the world in his sleep. “the same kind of music haunts her bedroom, i’m almost me, she’s almost you” referring to how he’s found a new lover that reminds him so much of the (5/?)