Hozier “Take Me to Church” Official Lyrics & Meaning | Verified

if it feels right other people will feel it too and I think all I did with this when I was working on that demo it felt good [Music] I struggle to kind of comment on why it has lasted or why it's been such a lasting piece of music there is a sort of an austerity to that to the way that song was recorded I don't I don't mean that in a bad way there's a rawness to it I recorded it with very very Bare Bones rig in my attic but I think also the theme of it is universal you know this idea that powerful organizations use people's sexuality in order to mobilize uh people against women against gay people and the justification behind that is often religious in nature my lovers got humor she's the giggle at a funeral knows everybody's disapproval I should have worshiped her sooner if the heavens ever did speak she's the last true mouthpiece every Sunday is getting more Bleak fresh poison each week I thought the lyrics were humorous not that by any means is a comedy song but it's like a lot of songs of mine that when read with a kind of a dry voice there's there's humor in them a lot of my memories of like going to church at somber events and having like an uncle telling a joke in your ear you know what I mean at a time when you really shouldn't in a way that's not mean or cruel but in a way that's like makes light of the situation makes light of a heavy situation there's some great freedom in being able to laugh at that we were born sick you heard them say it my Church offers no absolutes she tells me Worship in the bedroom The Only Heaven I'll be sent to is when I'm alone with you I was born sick but I love it command me to be well she tells me Worship in the bedroom that being yeah something tongue-in-cheek something a bit of humor to it also revealing that this is not necessarily a traditional worship song I think I still see my name uh I put into playlists for Christian music and I'm not adverse to that you know I don't think the two are necessarily mutually exclusive to that line I would have thought would have disqualified it from from something like that amen amen amen putting in the amens it's like a statement of intent or it's establishing now this is a spiritual act this song has you know it has been misinterpreted many times and it's it's similar to I think of Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen you know it's another classic example of people thinking it celebrating one thing and rather than actually critiquing or satirizing or sort of subverting some idea take me to church I'll worship like a dog at The Shrine of your lies I'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife I have to say yeah the magnificence of cathedrals but you wonder okay who paid for that and it's everybody it's everybody who lived in its shadow and look I I there's some misunderstanding as well about where I come from like I've come from a Catholic Family but the idea of confession and that there's one person in a community who hears everybody's Secrets it's such an outrageous Power by imbalance offer me that deathless death good God let me give you my life offer me that deathless death could be the church offering everlasting life a death without a death but then it also nods to the idea of the French expression or The Little Death French call it Petty Moore which is like basically is an orgasm if I'm a pagan of the good times my lover is the sunlight keep the goddess on my side she Demands a Sacrifice drain the whole sea get something shiny something meaty for the main course that's a fine looking high horse drain the whole sea get something shiny if there is a controversial line and song I think it's that one the Vatican City refers to itself as the holy sea h-o-l-y-s-e-e it was kind of playing with this idea of um taking back taking back that wealth that was essentially created by people who showed up to church every week and donated you know bronze silver and gold so playing with C and C and just going in there and getting something shiny memories of as a teenager visiting the Vatican City and I mean the ceilings are paved with gold what you got in the stable we have a lot of starving faithful that looks tasty that looks plenty this is hungry work from what kind of moral Authority does this organization have given its Legacy given its Legacy of abuse on what grounds does it have does it imagine itself to to be able to speak on anything from any sort of moral standpoint and so to take that supposed moral high horse and then yeah imagines with this idea of butchering it and using it to feed people no Masters or Kings when the ritual begins there is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin in the madness and soil of that sad Earthly scene only then I am human only then I am clean amen amen amen it's tough being a human you know and finding another person and sharing your own Humanity that is when you feel it most yourself it's when you feel at most connected to someone else and so that line only then I am human that's when I'm at my most ordered that's when I'm at my most in step with what it is to be a being on this Earth [Music] see the Iranian protesters Serena Ismael singing that song and sort of went viral in the aftermath of her being beaten to death by forces of the Iranian state with women who wanted the right who were trying to seek the right to show their hair in public in an example like that with a teenage girl like like Serena you have somebody who is far has far more courage and far more bravery than I will ever have to contend with you know somebody who paid an ultimate price I come up very short against courage like that

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Length: 6min 14sec (374 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 13 2023