My understanding is that's still an uncomfortable state, but it at least keeps them from vomiting all over the floor and lets them function. Now, when an addict says they need enough opiates to "hold" them, what they mean is that they intend to use enough to keep the physical sickness away, but not enough to be high. In this reading, one of the two lovers is a heroin addict. Having sex and using heroin are being set up as parallel, possibly even equivalent, experiences. While high, one tends to feel lethargic, satiated, and disinclined to move ("arms I'd never use"), a heroin user also quite literally feels like one's limbs are heavy while high ("to feel your weight"). The "kiss" here would be the act of using the drug.
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After orgasm, one tends to feel lethargic, satiated, and disinclined to do much other than hold one's partner ("your weight in arms I'd never use").įor a heroin addict, waiting too long between indulgences produces emotional turmoil, intense cravings, and a good deal of physical discomfort, including skin that quite literally feels like it's crawling off of one's body ("hell", "skin that crawls"). The "kiss" is likely a euphemism for the release of intercourse.
While having sex, if foreplay and teasing are protracted, the desire for consummation can become intense enough to produce actual, physical pain ("hell", "skin that crawls from you", reading "from" as "because of"). To feel your weight in arms I'd never use, To have someone kiss the skin that crawls from you, You don't know what hell you put me through, While he's with his lover, the exposing light of the world is darkened, his eyes are kissed, and he doesn't have to see the lewd and cruel actions of his fellow man any longer.įor the brief moment of time that he doesn't see the disgusting aspects of human behavior, he can feel like a part of the human race ("like a person"), rather than his prior state of revolted alienation. I feel like a person for a moment of my life.ĭisliking people being jackasses ("baying"), and responding with a desire for escapism ("hide"). The reading I'm going to give is far from the only possible interpretation, but hopefully the reasons I prefer it will become clear as I go through the song. My InterpretationThis song is surprisingly ambiguous. Then feel your weight in arms I'd never use Than try to kiss the skin that crawls from you To feel your weight in arms I'd never useīut I don't know what else that I would give To have someone kiss the skin that crawls from you Songs reflect that.I feel like a person for a moment of my lifeīut you don't know what hell you put me through Everyone experiences the world differently. Her voice has just this immaculate sadness - even in happy songs there was something that was so broken about it."Ĩ. And when Billie Holiday sings she's merciless about it. There is no singer I can think of who can touch Ella Fitzgerald. The best vocalists I can think of are female. When I was maybe seven or eight I used to listen to one of her albums every night before I went to sleep. He reminisced to the Guardian , "I think it all started with Nina Simone.
I think it's important not to be afraid of saying things like that." People who wrote and sang songs that were reflective of their times," Hozier told MTV. "I'm influenced a lot by Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, even Paul Weller - Billie Holiday as well.
According to Rolling Stone, since the singer grew up in the Irish countryside and had a terrible Internet connection, Hozier listened to his family's collection of vinyl and cassettes at length. Hozier has been very forthcoming in interviews about his love for African-American blues and female vocalists. Homophobia is not about civil rights, it's about human rights. Here are 11 examples of Hozier's iconoclastic, brilliant insights. The 25-year-old has become an important figure in the fight for equality, and is an inspiration for all people looking to facilitate meaningful change.
But since Hozier released "Take Me To Church" and his subsequent debut album, the self-titled Hozier, he's been a vocal proponent of LGBT rights. He wrote the Grammy-nominated song in his parents' attic about a year prior to its release. "It's a success I only could have dreamt of - and if I ever imagined it would happen, I thought it would be many, many years down the line - when I was more established." "I didn't expect this, and I haven't really processed it yet," Hozier told Vanity Fair in March. Hozier, born Andrew Hozier-Byrne, was more surprised than anyone else by his surge to fame. Irish singer-songwriter Hozier made a huge, unexpected splash when his September 2013 single, "Take Me To Church," hit the charts.
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