As a child it was the place names
Singin' at me as the first thing
How the mouth must be employed in every corner of itself
To say "Appalacicola " or "Hushpukena", like "Gweebarra"
A promise softly sang of somewhere else
And as a young man blessed to pass so many road signs
And have my foreign ear made fresh again on each unlikely sound
But feel at home, hearin' a music that few still understand
A butchered tongue still singin' here above the ground
The ears were chopped from young men if the pitch cap didn't kill them
They are buried without scalp in the shattered bedrock of our home
You may never know your fortune
Until the distance has been shown between what is lost forever
And what can still be known
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
In some town that just means 'Home' to them
With no translator left to sound
A butchered tongue still singin' here above the ground
The lyrics BUTCHERED TONGUE of HOZIER is also present in the album Unreal unearth (2023)
Hozier è uno cantautoris irlandese nato a Bray, nella contea di Wicklow, nel 1990. Figlio di un musicista, ha iniziato a comporre canzoni fin da giovane. Dopo aver frequentato la St. Gerards School e il Trinity College di Dublino, dove si è iscritto al corso di musica, ha abbandonato gli studi per dedicarsi alla sua carriera musicale. Nel 2012 ha collaborato con il gruppo vocale Anúna, partecipando all'album "Illumination" con la canzone "La Chanson de Mardi Gras". Nel 2014 è uscito il suo album di debutto omonimo, che ha riscosso un enorme successo internazionale grazie a brani come "Take Me To Church", "From Eden" e "Cherry Wine". Il suo stile musicale è caratterizzato da influenze blues, folk e soul, con testi spesso introspettivi e poetici. Hozier è considerato uno degli artisti più promettenti della scena musicale irlandese contemporanea.
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