#softly lyrical

[kacievvbbbb]

Wasteland baby! is the most under appreciated of the Hozier albums and truly what an album to be released just before the pandemic what a song to release before the pandemic. During an uncertain time an album about not being alone in a wasteland the way most of the songs are about devotion, to the point of fault, to the point of personal harm, to the point of manipulation, about doing everything to be with this person even when it's detrimental to you both or even when it's a person you've made up in your head, in a year when we couldn’t go out and see each other. Hozier releases an album that puts the yearning for love in the loneliness of the pandemic into words a full year before the pandemic even happened and we don’t even really talk about it and that should be a crime.

True that love in withdrawal was the weepin' of me That the sound of the saw must be known by the tree

god imagine hearing that in a pandemic and not going insane.

in this essay, I will-

[sorawritesstuff]

i can fix him (no rly i can) is so jason todd coded idk how to explain it

[teathattast]

and if you want me to be there, then i'll be around

if you wanted to have me, you'd have me no doubt

if you wanted to ask me, ask me right now

i'm not too good at being subtle

[glittergroovy]

[lemongrablothbrok]

Me: *decides to slowly make my way through the decades of music on Spotify (you know, for funsies) starting this week, beginning with the '50s*

Spotify's "Soft '50s" Playlist: *starts playing "Down in the Willow Garden" by the Everly Brothers*

Me: Ah, one I've never heard before. Well, knowing these bros, it's probably sweet and romantic and maybe a little silly...

Me, about a minute later: WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF SICK TWISTED ROBERT BROWNING TYPE SHIT IS THIS NOW. PHIL? DON? WERE YOU GUYS OKAY?

[fobnsfwdoodles]

I want to sleep on every piece of fuzz and stuffing that comes out of you..

[fishii28]

i'll take a quiet life, a handshake of carbon monoxide

[strawbbcake]

I cannot get this song out of my head

reminds me of something nasty

I regret reading that shit omfg

[sunsetskylane]

I absolutely love the research I get to do and the things I get to read about in search of the perfect metaphor, so here are some things I read about for this chapter:

The Bible (Genesis)

Eyeshine in animals

DNA

Rare earth magnets

Mechanical weathering (weeds growing through concrete)

Zones of the ocean (my favorite!)

Volvation in animals

Birds of the UK

Crosswalks in England (did you know there's four distinct types? I didn't)

[reinedeslys-central]

songs to save the world

a series of lyrics I really like bc I've been meaning to get around to it

Find You, MONSTA X

"Will you let me live in a dream called you forever?"

"Wherever and whenever you are, I will find you no matter what

I'll hug you tightly as you did for me."

"Every day, every day, every day

I miss you until I'm tired enough to fall asleep

Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow

Will I get to see you?"

"When I stay still and close my eyes, I can feel it clearly

Your temperature, the sound of you breathing, your tiny smile"

"You reach out your hand to me, who was filled only with wounds Putting the breath back in me who was dying You who gifted me with the world again, yeah"

"My every day spent missing you

Until I finally reach the place where you are

I won't stop, I promise you."

"Was this all meant to be our destiny?"

[thereareeyesinsidethetrees]

'this doesn't end with you. i walk around and i think if people only knew- that i wish they were cursed, that i wish them the worst, i really wish 'em the worst...but i'm doing my best. and i hope you forgive me, now that i've confessed, cause i'm tryin' to resist, my heart becoming a fist...forever. because you can't, you can't, you can't stop a bullet. i'm giving you my trigger but you better never pull it'

stop a bullet by black light burns

[glittergroovy]

[daeivs]

ALAAAAANNNNN

[dearmail]

good morning! the puppets have given me brainworms.

[randomfusilier]

-The Butthole Surfers :: Pepper