Hozier - First Light (Official Audio)

[@icequeen9]

"Like I lived my whole life before the first light" what a fucking line.

[@pixel6726]

This is ridiculous. It’s not an album, it’s a collection of masterpieces.

[@mikeluongo537]

You hit the nail!

[@shrekisloveshrekislife4312]

Absolutely

[@SJLamb-te3dt]

I have never disliked a single Hozier song. I love a fair few and really like most the rest but I honestly haven’t found a single song I outright disliked.

[@LynnS.Hutchins]

I can't believe this album was not showered with Grammys!!!

[@sarahcoutts4854]

Amazing song, ethereal

[@HeyItsSnaith]

This album is gonna be my entire personality for a month

[@urmom22851]

literally so me

[@plenty-of-stardust]

Only one month? Hahaha /hj

[@Innnnnk]

Real

[@breannamurguia1172]

Facts

[@molsondutch93]

More like until the next album drops

[@aziara369]

I can't just casually listen to Hozier.... It's always ALWAYS a worship experience and that's just the way it is

[@evarivier1011]

That’s why I’ve still only listened only one song - this one. I need time to digest to start my life again to breath normally. After I will listen next song 🤪

[@IneishaIgnites]

FACTTTTTTTSSSSS 😫😫😫😫😫😫😩😩😩😩😩😩😛

[@IneishaIgnites]

@@evarivier1011😂 how’s it going?!

[@evarivier1011]

@@IneishaIgnites I can’t wait new album 😂

[@IneishaIgnites]

@@evarivier1011 🤪🤪🤪🤪 report back I need to know 😂 I’m currently listening to whole album right now, for the 100th time at least 🤭 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠

[@noellethomas2589]

Genuinely made me sob. This man came for our throats with this entire album and casually closed it with one of the best songs he’s ever written 😭

[@stevejennings]

Absolutely incredible track, blew me away on the first and now the tenth listen. This track and Francesca are off the scale awesome.

[@katiahann2502]

The best songs he's ever written YET

[@KamisatoElias]

He’s literally never released a better song than this masterpiece

[@simplyreecee]

@@KamisatoEliasI disagree lol but it is a good song

[@rodneymartin976]

@simplyreecee then what would say was his best 😊

[@milaces1323]

The song really makes me feel like i'm watching the most glorious sunrise

[@strega0]

I like how this album starts with darkness (De Selby part 1 and 2) and ends with light. Really mirrors Dante's journey from descending into darkness and going out of hell and seeing the light again.

[@khplaylistyt9729]

Honestly very timely with Pluto exiting Cap

[@Gaze73]

Bravo Vince!

[@renee000]

Can we just appreciate that we are living in the same time as Hozier? 🤍

[@tristonanan]

This song has sparked an ego death for me. I sent it to my therapist and wrote about it in my journal. This is what falling in love with life sounds like to me.

[@darkr_aleks261]

this is literally what i also felt while listening to this song.

[@blackhole77]

It really is something amazing to experience - a real turning point in healing, a total paradigm shift in mentality, where everything is still how it is, but the underlying blackness of complete Hell on Earth is replaced with the softer reality that we are at home here with all the suffering and divine love as one whole ♡ take care, brave stranger ♡

[@hudahusain4619]

Wow this morning when discover the song for first time and I write about the challenge that I going through while repeated all day ..

[@DubleCh33s3]

This song actually almost made me cry. I'm currently watching a sunrise right now, and it truly does look beautiful. I've been going through a lot right now, and listening to this song while watching the sun rise made me think of how much I don't actually want to die, I just want to be happy. I want to see my first light.

[@skyeaurelliah9883]

felt on this one. i've been dealing with Some Things. and i listened to this and got hit with so much hope at once for something better that i had to lay down. hang onto that. we'll both get there someday. picture it. a morning of your own. in the quiet, before anyone else is awake, or perhaps with someone you care for. sitting at the kitchen table. watching the sun come up. people talk about healing in these big moments, in these giant steps and symbols. but sometimes it's in that quiet. one bright morning changes all things. you're going to be happy. you're going to have your first light.

[@yhd_skeetsy]

hey, its been 5 months. hope you guys are doing better, alright at least ♥️

[@RippedBros]

hey, it’s been 6 months. I hope you’re doing well. Like every sunrise that comes back up I hope you get back up on your feet and find the happiness you deserve 🫶

[@melopsittakusundulatus6689]

This song reminds me of that earth-shattering force of hope that emerges after every destruction. Something like a phoenix rising from its ashes? Hozier is one hell of a poet, I tell you.

[@elaineschow5700]

Yes! That is the perfect description!😍

[@adamgladstone2136]

This song is like a shining light at the end of the album!

[@livingtaco7876]

I think that's meant to be the point as well!

[@eleneglad_]

Yup. It's the Ascend. Dante has made his way through all 9 circles of Hell at this point and is now Ascending out of Hell. Hozier definitely captured that feeling in this song very well

[@bookworm_braider3008]

"My guide and I did enter, to return To the fair world: and heedless of repose We climbed, he first, I following his steps, Till on our view the beautiful lights of heav'n Dawn'd through a circular opening in the cave: Thus issuing we again beheld the stars." Dante's Divine Comedy, Inferno, Canto 34

[@livelovelurk]

i cant believe ive been missing out on Hozier's music I had obviously heard of him because of his take me to church song and just decided to give this whole album a listen and omg my jaw is on the floor his lyricism is insane and the music arrangements are so beautiful.

[@PeppeHighSea]

Same here...just amazing ❤

[@Gaze73]

Bruh me too, I started listening to him just this year after knowing just the church song.

[@zz1180]

One bright morning changes all things Soft and easy as your breathing You wake Your eyes open at first a thousand miles away But turning shoot a silver bullet point-blank range And I can scarce believe what I'm believing in Could this be how every day begins? The sky set to burst The gold and the rust The colour erupts You filling my cup The sun coming up Like I lived my whole life Before the first light Like I lived my whole life Before the first light One bright morning goes so easy Darkness always Finds you either way It creeps into the corners as the moment fades A voice your body jumps to calling out your name But after this I'm never gonna be the same And I am never going back again The sky set to burst The gold and the rust The colour erupts You filling my cup The sun coming up Like I lived my whole life Before the first light Like I lived my whole life Before the first light Like I lived my whole life Before the first light Like I lived my whole life Before the first light Like I lived my whole life Before the first light

[@edshariett]

😮🎉😊

[@humberto2009]

Amazing!!!!!!!!!!! I feel Heaven

[@MrKevmor]

Fair decent poetry that

[@papl20]

From de selby part 1 to first light this whole album was an spiritual experience. Hozier really took us to a journey through the 9 circles. I danced, I cried, I laughed, I had goosebumps. He really is a genius, masterpiece after masterpiece. Can't wait to see him in December, I know is going to change my life

[@eleneglad_]

It really was like a recreation of the book in the sense that we became 'Dante' and Hozier became our 'Virgil' our spirit guide taking us through the journey of all the circles of Hell and here to First Light which is our Ascend from Hell. This man is an artist through and through. It's mindblowing what he was capable of doing with this album. He painted the imagery so well and captured all those feelings so well that even if we weren't listening and thinking about the bigger picture we could still vividly experience the emotion that he captured in his work.

[@DebbieCooney-q8g]

Have fun!!! I see him on the 29th of Sept. In Philly. Ten days away!!! So can't wait

[@ianros01]

you must be kidding me this is ethereal

[@kellyradek5716]

Bro the choir at the beginning is killing me this album is going to wreck me

[@PhantomFandubs]

IT'S TIME BABIES

[@Ayah.Papaya]

YEAH IT IS

[@Allisonbabes]

Yus it is!!

[@andrea.556]

Oh yeah ✨🙌🏼😁

[@lavender3413]

🤍🤍🤍 woooo

[@RedJohnO22]

Time for time??

Sir I feel so lucky to be alive at the same time as you are

[@micahlindley]

This is the perfect capstone to such a cinematic album - absolutely incredible. I will not get over this song.

[@stevejennings]

Absolutely incredible track, blew me away on the first and now the tenth listen. This track and Francesca are off the scale awesome.

[@isabelaconsolim4434]

This sounds like what true love feels like

[@natterlie]

I will never forget the first time I listened to this song, an out of body experience. So good.

[@milee6747]

The imagery of this song is pure magic💔

[@reginamora100]

Damn, it really feels like the first light. I mean, a big part of why i love Hozier music is how much sentiment he puts into the instruments, his voice, the melody and even the background vocals and vocalist. But this made me feel so hopeful, and i never needed it so much like right now.

[@flowwerks]

This song makes me worship mere existence.

[@Passageofsky]

Hozier's voice and lyricals are like Irish history and mythology inbodied, there's an ancient quality. Something in his tone... phenomanal vocals 2:59.

[@NinaNebulosa88]

The strings in this album are sublime! 😚👌

[@RestlessRiver]

Loved Hozier for many years now, but this is the song that prompted me to immediately buy tickets to his show. It’s the most I’ve ever paid for a show, but I wanted the best so I could experience this in real life and MY GOD was it beyond worth every hour of work to earn that money. Feeling the vibrations of the music ripple through your body at the show is an experience you can’t truly describe.

[@abbiewoodall4160]

Not me blasting this driving my kids back to school in the morning light reveling in my fresh new beginning as a single mom 🎉😂

[@amandafeliciano542]

❤❤❤❤

[@notflando2422]

This is my favorite song on the album. I was on a walk when listening to it and it’s a good thing no one was around because I was giggling like a mad person

[@KamisatoElias]

I can highly relate to the giggling lol, whenever I hear a masterpiece like this it makes me laugh in disbelief ahahaha

[@arden2113]

Hearing this live is a spiritual experience

[@Ariel_is_a_dreamer]

Shut up I just realized that in "Too Sweet" he talks about going to bed at 3 while his girl wakes up for the sunrise, and then this song is *him* waking up for the sunrise and finally realizing why she liked it 😭

[@lauradrew177]

This song came out a year before too sweet

[@Ariel_is_a_dreamer]

@@lauradrew177 Yeah, but then he put it as the first song on Unreal Unearth: Unheard. And first light is the last song.

[@maki4420]

omggggg youre soo rightt ima cryyyy

[@Verflair]

​@@lauradrew177 he wrote Too Sweet to be included on Unreal Unearth originally. The album was originally going to include it but they cut it to avoid having a super long album lol

[@huacchng]

the symbolism in the song is more in reference to Dante's journey from hell to heaven in "Divine Comedy" when he finally escapes hell and sees light

[@thecandyunicorn7728]

This is THE BEST LAST SONG on any album and no one can convince me otherwise. Also I think we can all agree this is such a good song for like a fantasy movie

[@Cosmic_soul731]

Truly a masterpiece. Such songs should be in very deep movies.

[@liamcalpine]

One of the greatest artists, lyricists and personas of the music industry today.

[@lollypop7503]

This is the Most beautiful Album I’ve ever heard and owned

[@jisungsjeekies5945]

i had not felt such a strong whirlwind of emotions in what felt like forever. but this album truly made me feel alive again. thank you hozier

[@DimEnDon]

After this song, I will never be the same. This whole album is absolutely wonderful! This one and Francesca are my favourites for now ❤

[@kaylasedillo837]

I don't have enough words to describe how this album made me feel. it felt like my mind was flooded with every emotion ever created and then swept away by every word in every song. I genuinely haven't felt this kind of spark in my heart in a long time. Hozier you are such an incredible artist and I hold immense respect for your craftsmanship.

[@alicerox3066]

This album is devastatingly beautiful. 💛

[@toniann3416]

Ladies and Gentleman, the amazing Hozier!👏

[@BabyBlueJulee]

Overall this albums trumped for me. After reading more into Hozier's meaning behind it, I found that I could have been so spiritually involved because its meaning was so relevant to the relation of my most recent years of going through darkness and finding myself closer to "the light" in the end of such perpetual struggle. It was spiritual and when I listened to it, I had a spiritual reaction.

[@sillylittlehumannotnamed]

Each time I listen to this song it feels like a renewal as if i've never listened to it while also leaving the impression of already knowing it from an ancient time as if it carried me through the ages of earth, very peculiar but i guess it's just the magic about our Fae King Hozier 🌻

[@andysavechko6742]

One of the Hozier’s masterpieces…..

[@DidiAphra]

hozier really does love breaking out hearts and putting it back together again doesn't he

[@inshaliqbal8275]

It's insane how so many people are deprived to hear this masterpiece

[@oceanographergirl]

I bought the vinyl on opening day. I have listened to the full album on vinyl twice already. The whole album is great from start to finish. This song, though, just gives me absolute chills. I just keep listening to it over and over again. What a masterpiece.

[@stevejennings]

Absolutely incredible track, blew me away on the first and now the tenth listen. This track and Francesca are off the scale awesome.

[@marinamerino1822]

Of course the end of an album ends with a beggining reference. Of course its a nod to freedom within emptiness and nihilism. Naturally its a way of describing the open road after scaping a canonic event. I love him so much of course he would do this oh gosh.

[@Shereadsalot]

That's so true because it talks about Dante's ascend from hell in Dante's Inferno, breaking out into the first light

[@alillamas5680]

God I feel like I’m floating I have chills

[@KamisatoElias]

I’m giggling and smiling with my mouth agape in wonderment and awe. This is phenomenal, the peak of music. It’s an entire experience, it’s a journey to somewhere spectacular. Words don’t do it justice. It’s closure, it’s peace, it’s enlightenment, it’s breaking free from the shackles of this earth and ascending above it all. I’d go as far as saying it’s the best closing song of any album EVER, thematically. It’s just epic.

[@sheilaosullivan2794]

Or, dare I say, operatic! This album reminds me of an opera, at least in part, a brief glimpse into some very curious characters of the near and far past. I really, really like this track. There’s just so much packed into this song, ya know, like all of Hozier’s art. It’s kind of his way…and has been, hasn’t it? Yep☘️💚

[@zahra.mo11]

OMG how he lifts me with the pure power and magic of his voice...and the music God help me🥺❤️❤️❤️

[@niklase.4850]

Just listened to all 16 songs in the album. It was worth every moment of the four years since Wasteland, Baby! Hell of a birthday present from Hozier :)

[@Pineapple_hozy]

this album is just beyond in words to describe it's sheer beauty... happy birthday mate and may more birthdays to come!

[@noellethomas2589]

Happy birthday!

[@joaocampelo3725]

It was a birthday present for me too 😌😍

[@_Chlorophyllis]

HOW DARE YOU TEAR ME APART AND PUT ME BACK TOGETHER TO WITNESS A BEAUTIFUL SUNRISE

[@ThatOneGuyOverThere]

So we can all agree Hozier is an Angel that took on human form to bless us with the songs only Angels should know the words to?

[@avery1_1]

I randomly clicked this without any thoughts but woah... I feel like a drone flying over mountains and seas. This should be a bgm on travel shows.

[@khadeejataylor2475]

Ikr like capturing big wide shots of landscape wow

[@lauraslade5308]

This song is so beautiful- those soaring vocals, wow! Such an uplifting end to the album

[@sealpup9341]

Some people might see each song as one whiplash after another but I think that's just what the human experience is, isn't it?

[@astridlil]

first minute and I already feel like I'm floating among the forest fairies as I fly far above the trees and discover I'm have magic powers like I'm in a Disney movie. I love your music Hozier!

[@mikeluongo537]

No other music dude has done what He did for me, I worship Him. We all should be happy to be alive, in His lifetime..

[@tarunr1949]

Chills everytime i listen to this

[@Pog_Mo_Thoin]

Spellbound by this brilliant song. The lyrics are beautiful simplicity. The grand orchestrated theme with restraint in all the right places has my pulse on fire. Floored just floored.

[@serenitygilles7064]

Moment of glorious Spiritual Conviction....amazing! Wow. Perfect for Sunday night....💖💯

[@Lovelemonsyum1]

My favorite song!

[@justasillybug]

Hozier never disappoints

[@elanyacoleman9862]

Most precious and beautiful Hozier ❤️🎵🎶🎼🍉🌹🙂 !

[@Alichef_]

I love when i find great songs by accident ❤️😂

[@GingerKC]

I have repeated at least a billion times! I absolutely am intrigued and deeply in love with everything Hozier does. I am just trying to hold on Oct 13th to see him. Gonna go to another state. I can not wait without playing Hozier non-stop. He medicates me. ❤

[@Debon61]

I can't wait til Sept 29th in Philly to see this beautiful soul and listen to his brilliant, soul music and poetry

[@GingerKC]

@Debon61 OH GIRL!!!! I got chills reading your comment!!! I'm beside myself with pure excitement!!! Saw him 2019, and many people had no idea who he was or what he looked like. I've watched him just BLOW UP!!! I am thrilled for his success and people who know talent!! Love music people, who has taste like me. Talent lol. Gosh I hope you have A Great time!!! Soak him in!!! He's magical.

[@dominicschaefer2867]

You gonna see him at ACL? Me and my fiancee are going for our honeymoon! We are calling it our Hoziermoon

[@GingerKC]

@@dominicschaefer2867 I'm going to Oklahoma. Native American reservation area. Lol. I don't know how to be politically correct. I know it's a separate venue, but gambling by the ton.

[@leonilion7758]

This album is literal perfection.

[@ninvic0]

at 4:06 my soul always leaves my body holy hell

[@Frostiar]

SO TRUE

[@chimeraaaaa]

I gave birth to my son listening to this and now each time it takes me back to that moment ❤ Thank you, Hozier.

[@haniakupczak2068]

thank god it was this not Eat Your Young

[@wittyblonde6728]

@@haniakupczak2068 That made me wheeze 😭

[@ZedP]

I've enjoyed the whole album, one of the this year's best. Congrats, Hozier, this really made my day!

[@MeowMeow-x5c]

MY BRAIN IS ASCENDING LISTENING TO THIS

[@glendakurkimaki5834]

The choral singing at the beginning is majestic and Andrew's voice is surreal. My cup is full xx

[@ladywilley4725]

" And then-then I learned your name. Hearing you say it … it was like an answer to a question I’d been asking for five hundred years." 🙏🥺💕💕💕

[@liviaexvisio]

Wake up darling, Unreal Unearth just dropped ❤️

[@writerspen010]

2:13-3:06 -- I am forever altered by this

[@hailu-b]

This is one of my favorites

[@writerspen010]

Not a bad song on this. A masterful, poignant album.

[@Urfav_Nova]

Love this song so much I wrote "Gold and the Rust, The Color Erupts" on my converse! This was my favorite song sung live. Within all the years of my life I have been going to church that was the one time I had a religious experience 💞💗

[@CailinRuaAnChead]

This song perfectly captures the first dawn after your first child is born

[@lorettomccartney6295]

Listened to this while the sun erupted from the sea on the coast of Maine on the sea cliffs. The stars were still visible behind me and the sky above was indigo to fire red above me out to the sea. I don’t live on the coast so it was a big moment to me.

[@thehallofvalhalla]

This song is a spiritual experience.

[@Eve91-h5w]

What a beautiful way to end a masterpiece of an album 💫✨❣️

[@Dj2anime]

Anyone else hearing ‘Feed the world’ (Band Aid - Do they know it’s Christmas) during the Choir’s ‘One bright morning’…the song swells and sucks you in so deeply…magic.

[@MÆtelL111]

Phenomenal 👏👏👏 One of the most prodigious artists of our time. I hope to attend a live concert one day.

[@maartenlootens910]

@caelestaluna1111 I really hope you once can experience this phenomenal artist and his magnificent band. I saw them in Brussels with my wife and 3 children (13, 17 and 19) and we were ALL overwhelmed. Our son said: 'This is the best gift ever you could have given to me.´ It was incredible. And the audiëntie too was magical.

[@maartenlootens910]

* audience

[@marinamerino1822]

just coming back a few months later to say i still love this so much hozier u are the bestest

[@ellalopez3358]

omg i'm ascending lol - Hozier will definitely surprise us in his next album /era

[@kikibibi369]

I can't wait to paint to this.

[@LCarroll20]

Oh the magic he weaves 😢

[@ThatBlond2.0]

Everywhere i go , the feeling of Good Omens haunt me

[@headofathousandsheepswool]

YOU GET ME

[@azcdtixs]

this entire album is literally them post s2e6

[@aoifebyrne1913]

I saw this live in Belfast and well yous are in for a treat if you get too see it live

[@tiaremiranda9792]

i just got blessed what a beautiful piece of work

[@yanagalkina7677]

So sad this wasn’t included in his unreal unearth tour set list :( One of the best album closers I’ve ever heard

[@axooli7698]

ABSOLUTE BANGER

[@daisycaldera8021]

I love this song 💚 anyone else think it would be a great Bond theme song

[@bobthestinky7369]

This has a Bond song vibe? I bet Hozier would kill a Bond song.

[@harmonykrieg]

I reckon this is my favourite one on the album.