Hozier - Who We Are (Official Audio)

[@racheltaylor3125]

"Hold me like water or Christ, just hold me like a knife" So desperate, disappointed, heartbreaking. I adore how Hozier puts across his feelings so we can feel them alongside him

[@altalt479]

It's my fave part of the song 😍

[@fidofernsfbi]

It’s everyone’s favourite part ❤

[@franceszapata951]

"Getting through still has a cost." Exactly. What doesn't kill you doesn't necessarily make you stronger.

[@karmalogically]

Yes it does.

[@Gebsequanimity9300]

It makes you stranger

[@stargazing7977]

It does make you stronger, if you choose not to dwell on the past

[@Lomig1983]

@@stargazing7977 Yeah, that's it, we can "choose" to have traumas (it's like picking flowers, obviously). "Choose" to be happy when we're being brutalized, humiliated and so on. It's called denial and it leads to mental health complications ! But thanks for your ideological speech ! (cf. Ehrenreich's "bright-sided" or Illouz's "happycracy)

[@hatschidasneeze9640]

Or how bmth put it, what doesnt kill you, makes you wish you were dead

[@AsheQuinn]

I really love the high pitched note that Hozier does in this song. It cuts deep, like a scream of grief

[@justasillybug]

his lyrics are always so poetic

[@mooreofwhatyouneed]

You only feel it when it's lost Gettin' through still has a cost Quietly, it slips through your fingers love Falling from you drop by drop What I had left here I just held it tight So someone with your eyes might come in time To hold me like water Or Christ, hold me like a knife We're born at night So much of our lives Is just carvin' through the dark To get so far And the hardest part Is who we are It's who we are You and I burned out our steam Chasing someone else's dream How can somethin' be so much heavier But so much less than what it seems Darling, we sacrificed We gave our time to somethin' undefined This phantom life, it sharpens like an image But it sharpens like a knife We're born at night So much of our life Is just carvin' through the dark To get so far And the hardest part Is who we are That's who we are Yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah Yeah, yeah You only feel it when it's lost Gettin' through still has its cost Quietly, it slips through your fingers love Fallin' from you drop by drop

[@mymindness]

“So much of our life is just carving through the dark.” This is beauty and truth.

[@SmashAdams]

cuts like a knife

[@amaraabadd]

I GOT THIS TATTOOED 💜

[@starryxblue]

@@amaraabadd such a good choice for a tattoo!

[@Lethukuthula-f2j]

What does it mean ?

[@mosspoet6143]

'Hold me like water or hold me like a knife' reminds me of the quote 'if I cannot be wanted let me be needed, and if I cannot be needed let me be used until there is nothing of me left.' Hold me like water, something wanted and needed and necessary for life, but if you cannot do that, then hold me like a knife, and instrument of death to be used until it has nothing left to give.

[@idanzick2710]

This one hit like a ton of bricks for me. I love Hozier, and it's both horrifying and beautiful that his own heartbreak is expressed so elegantly in his music

[@glendakurkimaki5834]

I saw part of an interview yesterday and he looked so sad. I realize that I don't know him on a personal level, but I am sad for him.

[@musiclover-cu5jy]

Me, too. I felt so sad to see his eyes well up.

[@mimmonen1136]

@@glendakurkimaki5834Can I ask which interview? He’s an amazing artist and I love watching interviews with him to catch a glimpse of how he is as a person. He seems to be a really lovely human being.

[@luciferalpha3080]

​@glendakurkimaki5834 I've seen this interview on TikTok too. My tears just rolled down my face. I know that kind of pain.

[@Paivaster]

Perfeita definição

[@musiclover-cu5jy]

That reminds me that he’d semi-joked years ago that heartbreak is best for the songwriting process. He said if in love, you want to spend your time just being happy, and not analyzing it. The second album, which was also amazing, was clearly written by a man in love, but this album tears your heart out.

[@maiabbie]

I think you just explained why I fall apart listening to this album

[@lisadavis8418]

I totally agree, last album was good but this one puts me in mind of the greats, so personal, I have listened to this album daily since it’s release and resonates with so many lyrics. Genius

[@musiclover-cu5jy]

@@lisadavis8418 It literally hurts to imagine someone hurting & betraying this man, who is the epitome of a good man. Kind of unreal (unearth).

[@khplaylistyt9729]

this is the first I'm truly checking hoziers discography I'm not into love love songs but this one this is lit!!! He's a phenomenal lyricist! ​@@lisadavis8418

[@asull06]

@@musiclover-cu5jy sometimes hurt doesn't come from betrayal, but from the expectations we put on others.

[@jlm6959]

"How can something be so much heavier, but so much less than what it seems?" This line has me shaking and rethinking once again whatever I'll make out of my pass through Earth. All we do to be remembered is futile, a human life is meaningless in a universal scale; and yet we carry the burden of knowing ourselves ephemeral, mortal, of being bearers of entire worlds and philosophies that will be lost to an eternity uncaring of how precious they were to us.

[@pilargonzalez8442]

I find comfort in knowing that today, in 2023 human years, we are still finding pieces of a far Earthy past that helps us understand how we got to our point in time. There is something so magical in understanding the value of dust on a plant, a tiny seed floating through the air, space, eternity.

[@doohwanlee2811]

It will not be lost as we believe it to be. Someone, somewhere down the line will hear this music and feel the same way, and think the same thing. In that sense, human relatability lasts forever, in that sense, the love lasts forever. You and countless others will be immortalized in that love. It's what we leave behind :)

[@hunnqr]

take all this up with god hozier is the devil

[@nana____fox]

THIS THIS THISSS

[@ladyluna15]

Wow😢your comment made me cry😢

[@gracejeffers4717]

This song isn’t getting the amount of attention it deserves. This while album is incredible.

[@zz1180]

You only feel it when it's lost Getting through still has a cost Quietly, it slips through your fingers love Falling from you drop by drop What I had left here I just held it tight So someone with your eyes Might come in time To hold me like water Or Christ Hold me like a knife We're born at night So much of our lives Is just carving through the dark To get so far And the hardest part Is who we are It's who we are You and I burned out our steam Chasing someone else's dream How can something be so much heavier But so much less than what it seems Darling we sacrificed We gave our time to something undefined This phantom life It sharpens like an image But it sharpens like a knife We're born at night So much of our lives Is just carving through the dark To get so far And the hardest part Is who we are It's who we are You only feel it when it's lost Getting through still has its cost Quietly, it slips through your fingers love Falling from you drop by drop

[@leburuleburu8927]

Welcome .Once you go the Hozier way , there's no way out.The only way out is going in deeper.

[@accommodatingalternativeinc]

​@@leburuleburu8927you need to help me understand how the hell I get there in one piece

[@leburuleburu8927]

One of the ways to get there is by listening to "No Plan"; Listening to "Be" listening "Sunlight"

[@amvelez10]

​@@accommodatingalternativeinc You don't. But you'll recognize that the broken pieces needed to be a little shattered by this man's poetry

[@reactivetazerenjoyer]

fell to my knees and wept like a newborn when i heard this song.

[@bitesbitz]

That high note caught me off guard but it was so good 😭

[@hollyj1608]

That "hey" bit is indescribable. It reminds me of something ancient almost primal speaking to the soul. Like a wounded animal crying out. So much pain and longing. Damn its beautiful

[@Neon_trashman]

These videos are so funny because you just get to watch hozier attempt to position a flower in his mouth for 4 minutes straight and then there’s like supper kickass music 😭

[@migratory.114]

hozier's lyrics always speak to the primal part of my being. now that's ability. that's skill. thank you for relevealing in me what i'd hidden.

[@darubyprincxx]

i'm only a casual listener of this guy but i've had this song on repeat for the past day or so ever since i found it while listening through the album and holy shit dude do the chords in this one itch my brain. i know everyones talking about the lyrics but the way this song is composed sonically is a work of art all in itself and i just came here to say that this is awesome and will probably be cementing itself in my psyche permanently. fantastic work, dude, thank you for what you do n keep it up

[@diamondj4484]

I'm also just a casual listener but this album's songs have not yet, since release, left the confines of my head. When the KZbin winter music analysis came the top songs were all from the album. This man is amazing

[@khplaylistyt9729]

The overall harmony of elements damnnnn.

[@scartian5134]

proof that you cannot be a 'casual' hozier listener, he will capture you

[@scartian5134]

proof that you cannot be a 'casual' hozier listener, he will capture you

[@All_is_well478]

I don't know who made the loud shouting sounds at the middle part, but good God. That was like the voice of an arrow cutting through Hellfire, up to God's hand. That was like all my pain erupting from me in sound. Like my heart tearing open, my mind as well, and the hurt gushing forth sounding _human,_ instead of making me into an unholy creature for feeling it or carrying it. Whether it was Andrew or another, that was a magnificent thing to put in this song.

[@karmalogically]

My son

[@curlygurly2112]

im almost certain it was him. listen to him in Anything But

[@KBee-w1z]

2:33 it's so magical. I don't know how he did it...but I think he's my father

[@WholeWhoniverse]

This feels like the score to the emotional climax of a film. The haunted longing of something that will never return, at least not in the form that it used to be

[@MademoiselleMarrett]

this song is so hauntingly beautiful and he does it so well

[@mariaceliaanastassiadis3517]

Hozier came into my life like a bullet, one of those that you can't remove without dying. I'm obsessed. I listened to De Selby-1 a thousand times. And just when I was almost feeling sick, this one appears. I cried a lot when I heard it the first time. It's an anthem. Hozier is an alien.

[@sonicangel9]

If someone asks me what song I believe shows what it’s like to be human it’s this one, this song is amazing I have no words. All of us are trying to hold onto our lives but it’s slipping from us and wishing for others to hold onto us, not caring if it’s gentle like water or hurtful like knifes. Trying to live and survive thinking we’re doing so much, only to realize we’re barely making a scratch and not knowing what we’re truly doing completely in the dark and scrambling. We burning ourselves out on what other people want, some us being forced to be extensions of themselves to accomplish their dreams. We sacrificed so much for nothing but a phantom of a life and it’s sharp like an image but hurts like a knife. I can’t with this song it’s so human, this is what it’s like to be human! God!!

[@rxsonance]

this has to be my favourite song on the album by far

[@bookishbrookeish]

“You only feel it when it's lost Gettin' through still has a cost Quietly, it slips through your fingers love Falling from you drop by drop What I had left here I just held it tight So someone with your eyes might come in time To hold me like water Or Christ, hold me like a knife” Yeah… this one I’m absolutely FERAL for

[@mooreofwhatyouneed]

You only feel it when it's lost Gettin' through still has a cost Quietly, it slips through your fingers love Falling from you drop by drop What I had left here I just held it tight So someone with your eyes might come in time To hold me like water Or Christ, hold me like a knife We're born at night So much of our lives Is just carvin' through the dark To get so far And the hardest part Is who we are It's who we are You and I burned out our steam Chasing someone else's dream How can somethin' be so much heavier But so much less than what it seems Darling, we sacrificed We gave our time to somethin' undefined This phantom life, it sharpens like an image But it sharpens like a knife We're born at night So much of our life Is just carvin' through the dark To get so far And the hardest part Is who we are That's who we are Yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah Yeah, yeah You only feel it when it's lost Gettin' through still has its cost Quietly, it slips through your fingers love Fallin' from you drop by drop

[@gabrielsiteny]

I never laid my ears on such poetry in my life

[@fletcher_athens]

I can't believe he just posted that and expected us to be like. Normal now. Like what no I need to decompose.

[@lachutedIcare]

The piano the dark atmosphere who turned slowly into hope is so wonderful

[@hangracethorn]

I lost my dad this year. And I know this song isn’t about grief. But I read his lyrics so personally to my dad. My dad always said music is so powerful. And he was so right. This song hits so hard like a punch to the gut

[@glendakurkimaki5834]

I feel that it IS about grief.

[@blairallison18]

I'm so sorry for your loss. I lost my dad last year too, also a big music lover. He would have loved this album. Sending you all the love during this horrible time 🖤

[@karimahussein9010]

Omg, same So sorry for your loss

[@frostfang1]

​@glendakurkimaki5834 belatedly. Yes. It's about grief. Mostly a grief of a loss of self. But it could be how you lose yourself in grief as well, when you lose someone, or just through the everyday living.

[@brittanyabruns]

This. SONG. It hits you like a wave of emotions. I love it so much. I'm so grateful to be here for Hozier's music. It's truly a gift.

[@nath_06137]

His voice, HIS VOICE, PLEASE

[@Makjaoiuewhxkjs]

I need Good Omens mv with this song now.

[@saratominich8497]

YES

[@imrtlbydsgnHoani]

Oh buddy your not alone with that 😢 I need it as much as you do

[@Frankie_1908]

YOU'RE NOT ALONE!!!

[@oshinjames7106]

This hits hard. Every. Single. Time.

[@Lulu554k]

Hes only gone and done it again, dropping masterpieces on masterpieces. Don't know why I'm surprised each time, im convinced he physically cant make a bad song

[@aroundthewayy81]

...the emotions his music invoke and invite are such a gift.

[@vero2522]

This song feels like a bittersweet realisation of ones mortality and flaws

[@jamjar5525]

This song is everything

[@hidden1319]

My girl and i just vibing to this man bless you all, all love from ohio.

[@giselleihrig2154]

ohio clubbb

[@ladyst4rdust]

I am just so very glad I get to exist at the same time hozier does and to be here as he releases pure art into the world

[@Gemino8]

As always, so profound and beautiful. Those vocals near the end sent me to another world.

[@twh94]

My girlfriend of 11 years broke up with me in late August. This song's release timing is strangely impeccable. And god is it beautiful. Its pacing and rhythm and lyrics, coupled with his voice, just hits different. This might be one of his best songs imho.

[@yayayay3791]

i think this is my favorite on the album so far. the high note makes me tear up every time 😭😭

[@ruthierhandir197]

Been losing a lot of persons lately. Loss upon loss upon loss to death, to life. IT IS ASTOUNDING how this giant numbs me poker-faced throughout his lyrics. Then he does that war cry and I fucking lose it.

[@amaraabadd]

Idk why i love listening to this song especially at 3am. Makes me sob! ILY Andy, thank you for your beautiful work 💜

[@MariaHossain]

This one. This one is my favorite in the album.

[@PortuguescomCharme]

I sincerely hope it becomes a single and has a music video and is exploited to the fullest, because, ladies and gentlemen, what a song! WHAT SONG!

[@sky5la]

WHAT A SONG INDEED

[@Mushroom_FernFox]

I fall apart listening to this song. So beautifully written, so powerful and heartfelt. I can relate so deeply. The genius behind all of his song writing astonishes me; you can FEEL the heartbreak and sorrow behind his words and voice. It’s palpable. The line “Hold me like water, or Christ, hold me like a knife” really stands out to me. When someone holds water, they’re delicate, careful not to spill it. Often, they hold water because they NEED IT. A knife? They hold it roughly, firm grip on the handle, and it’s always used to tear something apart, whether or not it’s a human. It’s a weapon we CHOOSE to use because we WANT to destroy something, which could also elude to being used/taken advantage of. So Hozier is figuratively and literally begging to be held no matter what the circumstance, intention, or manner in which it’s done is. It also stands out to me because of how much the two objects being compared contrast eachother. Nourishing and Harmful, Life and Death, Needed and Chosen, Tool and Weapon, Mend and Destroy. Water and Knives embody polar opposites. Another meaning it could have is the way he’s viewed; associating him with water, which is good and keeps you alive, or regarding him as a knife, which hurts you and anything else it’s pit against. He’s wanting them to see him in a positive light, but he disappointedly accepts the alternative.

[@GhostFromTheMoon]

i rarely get chills from music but this gave me consistent chills 😭🥰

[@Ayah.Papaya]

Omg I’ve been waiting so long this album is SO MUCH BETTER THAN I EXPECTED AND HOPED❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@ntsikilennika7525]

This song, Francesca and first light are my top three so far Edit- adds Abstract to the top faves as well

[@Estrellaluna-xg7rz]

The only man in the world i know of to enhance my brain to find this this horrifyingly beautful song as sad as it was intended to be when written

[@soupinhyperspace3179]

More ppl need to hear this masterpiece

[@KamisatoElias]

So far on my listen through this is by far and away the best. This is ridiculously good and magical and it punches through your soul

[@glendakurkimaki5834]

I agree. I have been listening to the album non-stop and this one is my fav. I can listen now and not cry!

[@elle8795]

Hozier is the only man who can rip my heart apart with his words and also heal me with his beautiful voice 🫶🏽✨

[@GabrielSandCompany]

This is my favorite song of the album, and for me its one of the deepest songs that hit my soul.

[@milaces1323]

THE LYRICS OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@mooreofwhatyouneed]

You only feel it when it's lost Gettin' through still has a cost Quietly, it slips through your fingers love Falling from you drop by drop What I had left here I just held it tight So someone with your eyes might come in time To hold me like water Or Christ, hold me like a knife We're born at night So much of our lives Is just carvin' through the dark To get so far And the hardest part Is who we are It's who we are You and I burned out our steam Chasing someone else's dream How can somethin' be so much heavier But so much less than what it seems Darling, we sacrificed We gave our time to somethin' undefined This phantom life, it sharpens like an image But it sharpens like a knife We're born at night So much of our life Is just carvin' through the dark To get so far And the hardest part Is who we are That's who we are Yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah Yeah, yeah You only feel it when it's lost Gettin' through still has its cost Quietly, it slips through your fingers love Fallin' from you drop by drop

[@jazminvelasque]

This song, this album, this man is absolutely beautiful 🤍

[@KhrizelMhae_Herbias]

I feel like I'm speared straight directly in my heart🥲

[@nanamiokazaki3115]

Loving this new album from the best singer of our times, thank you for these masterpieces Hozier

[@elin9382]

this is absolutely devastating and i needed it

[@Lomig1983]

The great neoplatonician philosopher Plotinus said "never stop sculpting your own statue". And it's a good piece of advice. But Hozier adds a litlle thingy : but remember that "we carve it through the dark". So deep !

[@janiellemaesendico4958]

I thank God for a lot of things and mostly because I have your music, Hozier.

[@isabelle.ophelia]

Still one of the best songs I've found to scream in existential anguish to while flying down the motorway 😂❤

[@shantanapowell7799]

This is a fave so far, something about it just makes me want to cry

[@leoesp77]

Thank god i'm alive to feel this. Thanks Hozier!

[@leahbrautigam379]

Oh my gosh I love this

[@Vari_ian]

The end of this songs.... f you didn't cry ur lungs out because of his voice, then how did you survive it?

[@evenjustdavyjones]

With God. Definitely of the divine.

[@josukegappyhigashikata6537]

i screamed ow at this song it's hurting me physically help

[@m-419]

"What I had left here I just held it tight so someone with your eyes might come in time to hold me like water or christ hold me like a knife" I absolutely love this

[@HalcyonoftheAurora]

One of the most relatable remarkable songs in my life ❤ thank you,love @hozier You’re my voice when I can’t find the voice to speak anymore

[@maureenagnes6675]

This young Man Allways seem's to amaze me ,so talented with his creations,thank you,thankyou,thankyou.

[@JL-lm1wb]

Mother of pearl. Mother of pearl! 💯✨️💖✨️💯

[@AnxiousKoala]

Ouch! Why do these songs hurt but I can't stop listening?

[@leentelectuel3289]

Thats literally top level hozier and hozier is a top level artist

[@sethhhgarcia1763]

OH MY GOD WHY IS THIS SO UNDERATED

[@pamallinder3287]

Very proud of hozier, he says everything we wanted to

[@mikeluongo537]

He does speak the truth, and we MUST listen!

[@DRay23322]

this is my favorite on the album so far, though I'm only halfway through...every song has been phenomenal

[@ChillIndieRnBPlaylist]

This album is crazy good!!

[@DebbieCooney-q8g]

Sing it baby!!

[@carsonford9601]

This song hits the spot. New favorite

[@amyelevens]

he is insane for this

[@MyPhung-t5k]

I just went through a terrible breakup, I thought I was over it but this album hit me hard 😢 and now I blame Hozier for all my emotional breakdown 😂 just start sobbing in the middle of the night, in the corner of my room (in a good way)

[@Cloverswrld]

My dream is literally just to sit with this man and write lyrics and sing I grew up with this man before take me to church is music got me theew some of the hardest times in my life it got me threw the mental hospital

[@rhixnnon.betts_]

His voice is so magical

[@addie_laddie]

Again and again with the masterpieces…

[@alfarrell]

Hozier has been rummaging around in my fever dreams again.

[@tamaratrader7863]

My 8 year old daughter has decided this is her favorite song. She wont fall asleep until she listens to it.

[@shilohh_]

the piano in the beginning reminds me of Grizzly Bear's Foreground. so lovely.

[@beebeddingfield6145]

This background singer!!!!! Incredible

[@nadiagabriel-ye2kh]

You only feel it when it's lost Getting through still has its cost Quietly, it slips through your fingers love Falling from you drop by drop Can't stop crying because love is often only truly appreciated when it is lost...😢

[@solmazmehraban875]

Amazing just amazing

[@Ireneket]

Beautiful song and video 🖤

[@renvicious]

Quietly, it slips through your fingers love Falling from you drop by drop 😣

[@MsLadyCatherine]

This song is incredible !!! I found this track on the new album today. One of my favorite ! ❤❤❤

[@maureenagnes6675]

All the waiting was worth while for this Album.

[@janelleetsitty36]

You only feel it when it's lost Gettin' through still has a cost Quietly, it slips through your fingers, love Falling from you drop by drop What I had left here I just held it tight So someone with your eyes might come in time To hold me like water Or Christ, hold me like a knife We're born at night So much of our lives Is just carvin' through the dark To get so far And the hardest part Is who we are It's who we are You and I burned out our steam Chasing someone else's dream How can somethin' be so much heavier But so much less than what it seems Darling, we sacrificed We gave our time to somethin' undefined This phantom life, it sharpens like an image But it sharpens like a knife We're born at night So much of our life Is just carvin' through the dark To get so far And the hardest part Is who we are That's who we are Yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah Yeah, yeah You only feel it when it's lost Gettin' through still has its cost Quietly, it slips through your fingers, love Fallin' from you drop by drop

[@papl20]

god this and all things end has the same doomed love, destined to end but never regretting a single minute of it and it BREAKS MY HEART!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@rosab6259]

I LOVE you, Andrew

[@carbsandhotsauce]

yes, certified banger

[@sadgoldfish7479]

This song sends me to the void

[@Keefer_]

The analogy hits so damn perfect I can picture and feel these lyrics in my mind. Well played, well played

[@KathleenBirney]

My chest! Thank you for punching me in my heart and keeping me alive :)