Hozier - De Selby (Behind The Song)

foreign is a character from a book called the third policeman he also features in the docky archives but really I'm kind of referencing the third police linear and those familiar with that book will kind of know why it's appropriate that the third policeman is kind of an Alice in Wonderland uh that a man sort of finds his way on a bit of a journey himself and sort of is trying to make sense of this very strange and weird wonderful experience unless they're wonderful it's kind of terrifying for this lb is this philosopher this kind of scholar who's kind of part genius part lunatic he sees the world through a very very dream like logic as a way to open the album it's it's his song it just reflects upon darkness and and the like the falling of nice let's say and and viewing that as something that's very freeing in which all things are lost in that darkness and that's that's kind of aligned with the thinking of the Selby who let's say you kind of if I can't see where my hand begins and the Darkness ends there they then become literally one and the same so that's the kind of mindset that you would have yeah so it just seemed appropriate to sort of explore that theme of Darkness as something that's very freeing in which you're you were freed of all things and and the predicament of that is that when your mind is empty it resists that a great deal it's sort of a playful little reflection on on creation I suppose and that's a state in that God found intolerable I've got to create the world I suppose it's it's kind of a fun little the selfie sort of uh forgiving God for that it sort of there's a moment of transitions there's a a section in in Irish in in Gaelic where it sort of expands upon that thought in the direction of a love song foolish uh sir in a Circa three in a Kayla Michaela and and it's kind of although you're bright and and light you are you know and you you arrive to me like Nightfall you come like Nightfall you and I sort of mixed up together you and I metamorphosized so that same idea of where one where you can't see where one begins and one ends that that is an actual metamorphosis of some kind and then we move into disability part two which it expands on that lyrically but only in in English I suppose back you know very different style your heart has such Darkness I feel it in the corners of the room so again it's like a you're sort of lost together in this in this in this in this moment of veiled in darkness and all of us are are everything you know there is no beginning and there is no end and it just sort of explores that as well being a kind of a sort of funky disco track so it's and it was fun it was like it was trying to trying to somehow keep it very very intimate but then it's also just like a fun little like number which yeah which was really fun to race I kind of started I had that riff and brought it to Jeff Geary and then we did some did some work with Dan Tenenbaum and and then no bacon and yeah so it became it became something it that song lived many lives but then yeah I'm happy with that foreign [Music]

Channel: Hozier

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Id: C3GVayXeFVY

Length: 3min 47sec (227 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 16 2023