Hozier sings about love in such a way it makes me think he’s actually an immortal being, and he’s spent all of time, all of history watching the world, and he’s seen all of the pain and the darkness, but through it all, he’s seen love. Love between the dinosaurs who lay together as they watched the meteor fall, the enemy soldiers who embraced as they fell on the battlefield because a death together was better than a life apart. The poets, and artists, and authors who painted their love in words and songs embraced them with brushstrokes and lyrics. And he knows that nothing is ever forever except love. And empires can rise and fall, species can cease to exist, and time can trudge along, but love will prevail through it all. The way Love can fight, the way it can build and destroy everything in touches. It has survived even when our bodies have turned back to ash. In Love, we find the answers to the universe. Because he has seen wars and death and destruction, and he has seen the march of time, and the way nothing can last against it except love. He has seen how love can be so loud, loud enough to change the fate of the world, to change history itself. But he also knows love is quiet, so quiet, the silent embrace of lovers, a conversation with no words, yet it says everything.
Hozier writes about love in a way that makes me believe he’s spent his entire existence trying to find a meaning, a reason for all of the universe, and he realised that it is in fact, Love. That in love, we are allowed to truly embrace the purpose of our existence.
And i think that’s beautiful.
