#'cause with my mid youth crisis all said and done / i need to be youthfully felt cause god i've never felt young'

[imanopossum]

i want to make an edit of creelby to jackie and wilson. their song fr. do yall see the vision

[hoziercriespower]

Hozier - Jackie and Wilson

❝ 'Cause with my mid-youth crisis all said and done I need to be youthfully felt 'cause, God, I never felt young. ❞

[munchmemes]

hozier lyrics, hozier (expanded edition)

❛  i should've worshipped them sooner. ❜

❛  we were born sick. ❜

❛  the only heaven i'll be sent to is when i'm alone with you. ❜

❛  i'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies. ❜

❛  good god, let me give you my life. ❜

❛  there is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin. ❜

❛  it's toying somewhere between love and abuse. ❜

❛  no more alone or myself i could be. ❜

❛  [i/you] lurched like a stray to the arms that were open. ❜

❛  i lay my heart down with the rest at [your/their] feet. ❜

❛  i wonder if it's better now having survived. ❜

❛  i'm so tired trying to see from behind the red in my eyes. ❜

❛  no better version of me i could pretend to be tonight. ❜

❛  [they/you] found me just in time. ❜

❛  cause with my mid-youth crisis all said and done, i need to be youthfully felt cause i never felt young. ❜

❛  it'd be great to find a place we could escape sometimes. ❜

❛  we tried the world and it wasn't for us. ❜

❛  you knew who i was with every step that i ran to you. ❜

❛  would things be easier if there was a right way? ❜

❛  honey, there is no right way. ❜

❛  i fall in love just a little bit every day with someone new. ❜

❛  there's an art to life's distractions. ❜

❛  love with every stranger, the stranger the better. ❜

❛  all i've ever done is hide. ❜

❛  when you kill the lights and kiss my eyes, i feel ike a person for a moment of my life. ❜

❛  but you don't know what the hell you put me through. ❜

❛  it feels good to be alone with you. ❜

❛  there are questions i can't ask. ❜

❛  now, at last, the worst is over. ❜

❛  i know that you hate this place. ❜

❛  there's something tragic about you, something so magic about you, don't you agree? ❜

❛  there's something lonesome about you, something so wholesome about you. ❜

❛  innocence died screaming. ask me, i should know. ❜

❛  there's something broken about this but i might be hoping about this. ❜

❛  we'll lay here for years or for hours, your hand in my hand. so still and discreet. ❜

❛  i'd be home with you. ❜

❛  any way to distract and sedate. ❜

❛  i'm somewhere outside my life. i keep scratching but somehow i can't get in. ❜

❛  don't you stand there watching me, won't you? ❜

❛  don't you join in, you're supposed to drag me away from it. ❜

❛  i'm so full of love, i could barely eat. ❜

❛  [they/you] are sweet as can be. [they/you] give me toothaches just from kissing me. ❜

❛  no grave can hold my body down, i'll crawl home to [them/you]. ❜

❛  you never asked me once about the wrong i did. ❜

❛  [you/they] would never fret none about what my hands and my body done. ❜

❛  if the lord don't forgive me, i'd still have you and you would have me. ❜

❛  why were you digging? what did you bury? ❜

❛  i will not ask you where you came from. i will not ask and neither should you. ❜

❛  just put your sweet lips on my lips. we should just kiss like real people do. ❜

❛  i know that look, eyes always seeking. ❜

❛  i will not ask you why you were creeping. in some sad way, i already know. ❜

❛  you know better than to smile at me like that. ❜

❛  i know who i am when i'm alone. ❜

❛  you don't understand. you should never know how easy you are to need. ❜

❛  don't let me in with no intention to keep me. ❜

❛  it can't be unlearned. i've known the warmth of your doorways. ❜

❛  i'll find my way back to you. ❜

❛  my heart is heavy with the hate of some other man's beliefs. ❜

❛  screaming the name of a foreigner's good is the purest expression of grief. ❜

❛  i feel no control of my body. i feel no safety in [your/their] arms. ❜

❛  all that i've been taught and every word i've got is foreign to me. ❜

❛  it looks ugly but it's clean. ❜

❛  your fight and fury is fiery. ❜

❛  it's worth it, it's divine. i have this some of the time. ❜

❛  you called my name til the fever broke. ❜

❛  i heard a scream in the woods somewhere. ❜

❛  i turned and ran to save a life i didn't have. ❜

❛  i need you to run to me. run to me! ❜

❛  when i was a child, i heard voices. some would sing and some would scream. ❜

❛  don't you ever tame your demons but always keep them on a leash. ❜

❛  you've done me wrong for a long, long time. ❜

❛  after all you've done, i never changed my mind. ❜

❛  please, try to love me. ❜

❛  my love will never die. ❜

[itsblorbotime]

cause with my mid-youth crisis all said and done I need to be youthfully felt, cause God I've never felt young

[diaryofaquarterlifecrisis]

Cause with my mid-youth crisis all said and done I need to be youthfully felt 'cause, God, I never felt young. -Hozier

[stellar-planetary-system]

thinking abt jackie and wilson by hozier as a verge (young leif series) song. thinking abt them meeting leif and thinking abt

INTRO VERSE: so tired trying to see from behind the red in my eyes / no better version of me I could pretend to be tonight

^verge living every day jumping and surviving to get to tomorrow, slowly ground down to feel tired of life, with the red in their eyes from the dryness of the desert they meet leif in.

soul deep in the swill w the most familiar of swine/for reasons wretched and divine

^verge being born into a life of crime for the most cruel of crimes and that rejection and hate from other ppl permeating their soul

^^“for reasons wretched” vapus being destroyed by the hubris of their plans “and divine” the incredible power that could have been achieved

she blows outta nowhere roman candle of the wild / laughing her way through my feeble disguise

^leif literally showing up on a broken ship like a firecracker in their life to spark something new / he sees through verge as a terrifying person and breaks their guard down so easily

no other version I would rather be tonight / and lord! she found me just in time

^feeling more and more relaxed with leif, beginning to feel happy in the moment they found leif when they did

cause with my mid youth crisis all said and done / I need to be youthfully felt, cause god I’ve never felt young.

^verge makes the choice to kiss leif in realizing they need to feel something they’d never been able to before

CHORUS

she’s gonna save me call me baby run her hands through my hair.

^leif being one of the only ppl verge could ever let close to run his hands in their hair (and not pull it).

she’ll know me crazy soothe me daily / better yet she wouldn’t care.

^leif being the one person who knows them so intimately, calms them in all their crises, and most importantly doesn’t care what kinds of sins other ppl put on their shoulders. he just loves them.

we’ll steal a lexus be detectives ride round picking up clues

^being on the nancy sinatra and living their fantasy life of being criminals with a purpose in their small family together

we’ll name our children jackie and wilson / raise em on rhythm and blues

^the ultimate fantasy of being able to settle down for verge. even if they don’t want kids it’s the yearning for a life they wish they could have. something about being Able to settle down that’s so appealing yet so far. / ^^another piece of that fantasy, that they’re gonna raise their kids on a steady rhythm, something calm and soulful and significantly Normal in their own way.

VERSE

lord! it’d be great to find a place we could escape sometime / me and my isis growing black irises in the sunshine

^verge starting to consciously wonder about some kind of normalcy to their life. / "me and my isis" is usually referred to as the goddess of healing and love, so the healing and love of verge through leif and “black irises” could be funeral flowers and maybe them knowing the fantasy’s doomed from the start.

every version of me dead and buried in the yard outside / we’d sit back and watch the world go by / happy to lie back, watch it burn and rust / we tried the world good god it wasn’t for us

^for a moment this was their life. to say fuck the world that hurt them badly and let it burn as long as they had an escape with leif.

CHORUS

she’s gonna save me call me baby run her hands through my hair / she’ll know me crazy soothe me daily / better yet she wouldn’t care / we’ll steal her lexus be detectives / ride round picking up clues / we’ll name our children jackie and wilson / raise em on rhythm and blue

^repeated again like they're reliving their life with leif and then.

VERSE

cut clean from the dream last night let my mind reset / looking up from a cigarette and she’s already left

^waking up the next day after their escape from minsky and lafftrax without leif (who left them voluntarily).

I start digging up the yard for what’s left of me in our little vignette / for whatever poor soul is coming next

^falling back into their old life knowing they can’t stay the same person they were with leif in order to survive.

END CHORUS

she’s gonna save me call me baby run her hands through my hair / she’ll know me crazy soothe me daily / better yet she wouldn’t care / we’ll steal her lexus be detectives / ride round picking up clues / we’ll name our children jackie and wilson / raise em on rhythm and blues

^the lingering memories of a life they could have had but could never have actually had it.

[petoskeystones]

but with my mid youth crisis all said and done i need to be youthfully felt!!!!!!!!! cause god i never felt young!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[icarussmiling]

jackie and wilson by hozier and growing sideways by noah kahan are two of my favorite songs because their themes are so similar:

'Cause with my mid-youth crisis all said and done

I need to be youthfully felt 'cause, God, I never felt young

- Jackie and Wilson

But I ignore things, and I move sideways

Until I forget what I felt in the first place

At the end of the day I know there are worse ways

To stay alive

- Growing Sideways

they are songs about the inability to feel careless and free, like a child should. they both mourn the loss of innocent ignorance, as if they were forced to be emotionally mature before they were ready.

although, they provide two different perspectives on the same tragedy.

jackie and wilson reclaims the carefree nature that the subject deserves:

Lord, it'd be great to find a place we could escape sometime

- Jackie and Wilson

growing sideways reveals the life of the subject that resigns to their fate of emotional burnout:

Oh, if my engine works perfect on empty

I guess I'll drive

-Growing Sideways

maybe it’s the eldest daughter in me, but i think they’re onto something.

[ilaytrapsfortroubadours]

In honor of seeing Hozier last night,

Hozier lyrics that feel integral to my being:

“With my mid-youth crisis all said and done / I need to be youthfully felt / ‘Cause, god, I’ve never felt young”

“Every version of me dead and buried in the yard outside”

“Honey, when you kill the lights / And kiss my eyes / I feel like a person for a moment of my life”

“Honey, you’re familiar / Like my mirror years ago”

“Don’t let me in with no intention to keep me / Jesus Christ, don’t be kind to me, / Honey, don’t feed me, I will come back”

“Her fight and fury is fiery / Oh, but she loves like sleep to the freezing”

“I got some color back / She thinks so too / I laugh like me again / She laughs like you”

“Sit here and watch the sunlight fade / Honey, enjoy it’s getting late / There’s no plan, there’s no hand on the rein / As Mack explained, there will be darkness again”

“And I think about you though, everywhere I go / And I’ve done everything / And I’ve been everywhere, you know”

“I’d be appalled if I saw you ever try to be a saint / I wouldn’t fall for someone I thought couldn’t misbehave”

“Make your good love known to me / Or just tell me about your day”

“I wanna run against the world that’s turning / I’d move so fast that I’d outpace the dawn / I wanna be gone”

“Remember once I told you about / How before I heard it from your mouth / My name would always hit my ears as such an awful sound”

My life was a storm / Since I was born / How could I fear any hurricane? / If someone asked me at the end / I’d tell them put me back in it”

“You had me floating like a feather on the sea / While you’re as heavy as the world / That you hold your hands beneath”

“We’ll float away / But if we fall / I only pray / Don’t fall away from me”

“Someone with your eyes / Might come in time / To hold me like water / Or, Christ, hold me like a knife”

“All things end / All that we intend is scrawled in sand / Or slips right through our hands”

“So far from home to have a stranger call you ‘darling’ / And have your guarded heart be lifted like a child up by the hand”

“Sometimes it returns / Like rain that you slept through”

“I will not be great / But I'm grateful to get through / The feeling came late / I'm still glad I met you”

“The memory hurts / But does me no harm / Your hand in my pocket / To keep us both warm”

“I remember the view / Streetlights in the dark blue / The moment I knew / I'd no choice but to love you”

“Darling, there's a part of me / I'm afraid will always be / Trapped within an abstract from a moment of my life”

“You called me angel for the first time, my heart leapt from me / You smile now, I can see its pieces still stuck in your teeth”

“Do you know, I could break beneath the weight / Of the goodness, love, I still carry for you? / That I'd walk so far just to take / The injury of finally knowing you”

[joeyclaire]

with my mid youth crisis all said and done i need to be youthfully felt cause god i never felt young

[jerzwriter]

This one is for @thosehallowedhalls - Jackie & Wilson (beginning) - 6/7/2024 - Forest Hills

“Cause with my mid-youth crisis all said and done, I need to be youthfully felt 'cause, God, I never felt young She's gonna save me, call me "baby" Run her hands through my hair She'll know me crazy, soothe me daily Better yet, she wouldn't care We'll steal her Lexus, be detectives Ride 'round picking up clues We'll name our children, Jackie and Wilson Raise 'em on rhythm and blues"

[hoziercriespower]

Hozier performing Jackie And Wilson at Finsbury Park in London

❝ 'cause with my mid-youth crisis all said and done I need to be youthfully felt 'cause, God, I never felt young. ❞

[lords-of-mayhem]

Lords Of Chaos + Hozier Songs

Lords Of Chaos characters as Hozier songs <3 (all gifs by me)

Øystein "Euronymous" Aarseth // Jackie And Wilson

So deep in this swill with the most familiar of swine, for reasons wretched and divine. No other version of me I would pretend to be tonight. 'Cause with my mid-youth crisis all said and done, I need to be youthfully felt 'cause God, I never felt young. Every version of me dead and buried in the yard outside. We tried the world, good God, it wasn't for us.

Kristian "Varg" Vikernes // Dinner And Diatribes

Honey, this club here is stuck up, dinner and diatribes. I knew it from the first look of, the look of mischief in your eyes. Your friends are a fate that befell me, head is a talking type. I'd suffer Hell if you'd tell me what you'd do to me tonight. Let there be hotels complaints and grievances raised, let there be damage ensued and tabloid news.

Ann-Marit // Unknown/Nth

Funny how true colors shine in darkness and in secrecy. If there were scarlet flags, they washed down in the mind of me. Where a blinding light shone on you every night. And either side of my sleep, where you were held frozen like an angel to me. It ain't the being alone, you know I'm good on my own. You know, it's more the being unknown. So much of the living, love, is the being unknown.

Jan Axel "Hellhammer" Blomberg // Shrike

I fled to the city with so much discounted. Ah, but I'm flying like a bird to you now. Back to the hedgerows where bodies are mounted. I was housed by your warmth, thus transformed by your grounded and giving and darkening scorn. Remember me, love, when I'm reborn as a shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn.

Jørn  "Necrobutcher" Stubberud // All Things End

If there was anyone to ever get through this life with their heart still intact, they didn't do it right. The last time I felt your weight on my chest, you said, "we didn't get it right, but love, we did our best." And all things end, all that we intend is scrawled in sand or slips right through our hands. And just knowing that everything will end should not change our plans. I have never known a silence like the one fallen here, never watched my future darken in a single tear.

Attila Csihar // Wildflower And Barley

Springtime in the country. Each time, I'm shocked by the light. I can smell summer on its breath, low and harrowed lie the fields and the heart of me. The canal banks are empty again, the grass crying out to be heated by bodies, the streets for the laughter of young women and men. With all things God allows remain above ground like grief and sweet memory, wildflower and barley.

Pelle "Dead" Ohlin // From Eden

Babe, there's something so tragic about you, something so magic about you. Don't you agree? Babe, there's something lonesome about you. No tired sigh, no rolling eyes. No irony, no "who cares?" No vacant stare, no time for me. Idealism sits in prison, innocence died screaming. Honey, ask me, I should know. I slithered here from Eden just to sit outside your door.

Snorre "Blackthorn" Ruch // Would That I

True that love in withdrawal was the weeping of me, that the sound of the saw must be known by the tree. I fretted fire, but that was long ago. And it's not tonight where I'm set alight, and I blink in sight of your blinding light. With the roar of the fire, my heart rose to its feet like the ashes of ash I saw rise in the heat. Settle soft and as pure as snow, I fell in love with the fire long ago. With each love I cut loose, I was never the same, watching still living roots be consumed by the flame.

Kjetil Manheim // Almost (Sweet Music)

I came in from the outside, burned out from a joyride. She likes to roll here in my ashes anyway. I got some color back, she thinks so too. I laugh like me again, she laughs like you. I wouldn't know where to start, sweet music playing in the dark. Be still my foolish heart, don't ruin this on me.. The very thought of you in midnight blue, a love supreme seems far removed. I get along very well without you some other nights. She'll turn to me, awake, and ask "is everything alright?"

Bård "Faust" Eithun // Like Real People Do

I had a thought, dear, however scary. About that night, the bugs and the dirt. Why were you digging? What did you bury before those hands pulled me from the Earth? I knew that look, dear, eyes always seeking. So, I will not ask you why you were creeping. In some sad way, I already know. So, I will not ask you where you came from, I would not ask and neither would you. Honey, just put your sweet lips on my lips. We should just kiss like real people do.

Stian "Occultus" Johansen // Damage Gets Done

I heard once, it's the comforts that make us feel numb. We'd go out with no way to get home and we'd sleep on somebody's floor, and wake up feeling like a millionaire. Wish I'd known it was just our turn, being blamed for a world we had no power in. You and I had nothing to show but the best of the world in the palm of our hands. I don't know how the feeling ended, but I know being reckless and young is not how the damage gets done.

Gylve "Fenriz" Nagell // Arsonist's Lullaby

When I was a child, I'd sit for hours staring into open flame. Something in it had a power, could barely tear my eyes away. All you have is your fire and the place you need to reach. Don't ever tame your demons, but always keep 'em on a leash. When I was sixteen, my senses fooled me. Thought gasoline was on my clothes, I knew that something would always rule me. I knew the scent was mine alone.

Jon "Metalion" Kristiansen // I Could Be Yours

I could be soft and sweet, I could be hard and loud. I could be anything you ever need somehow. Why don't you hear me sing out from the lost and found? Why don't you try on me? Why don't you take me home? I'll match the color scheme of your bedroom walls.

[malaisequotes]

“With my mid-youth crisis all said and done, I need to be youthfully felt, ‘cause, God, I never felt young.”

Jackie and Wilson by Hozier

[lady-a-stuff]

CAUSE WITH MY MID-YOUTH CRISIS ALL SAID AND DONE I NEED TO BE YOUTHFULLY FELT 'CAUSE, GOD, I NEVER FELT YOUNG

[brett-is-afraid]

Septicinnit playlist

for @tommyssupercoolblog @septiccoffeefreak

My gift is my song and this one's for you. And you can tell everybody this is your song. It may be quite simple, but now that it's done. I hope you don't mind that I put down in words how wonderful life is while you're in the world.

I could stay lost in this moment forever where every moment spent with you is a moment I treasure. Don't wanna close my eyes, I don't wanna fall asleep. 'Cause I'd miss you, babe, and I don't wanna miss a thing.

Late night, come home. Work sucks, I know. She left me roses by the stairs, surprises let me know she cares.

I kept your head close to mine, you kissed my neck and gazed out the side of the car. Well, I'll make it through if I stick to you. Cover your body in superglue, I'll make it through a lie or two. Just make it sound good and I'll say it's true.

I'm a loose bolt of a complete machine. What a match, I'm half-doomed and you're semi-sweet.

Burn with me, heaven's on fire. Paint the sky with desire. Angel fly, heaven's on fire.

'Cause with my mid-youth crisis all said and done, I need to be youthfully felt. 'Cause God, I never felt young. She's gonna save me, call me baby, run her hands through my hair. She'll know me crazy, soothe me daily. Better yet, she wouldn't care.