Spitfire Alice A Gra

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The more I listen to his music the more I am convinced hozier’s oft-referenced baby is a necromancer

so to start this theory, she’s obv some kind of supernatural being:

• in the lyrics in “from eden”, Babe, there’s something tragic about you // Something so magic about you
• in “nfwmb”, the whole song is about how she’s not even phased by the apocalypse, “When I first saw you // The end was soon //To Bethlehem // It slouched and then // 

  Must’ve caught a good look at you“

• i hesitate to put too fine a point on it with “the angel of small death and the codeine scene”, but i’m also thinking small death refers to the euphemistic “la petit mort”, french for orgasm, and therefore she’s not actually an angel of death, but feel free to interpret that differently

to go on, he keeps referencing how she dug him up out of the ground:

• in the song ‘shrike’, And I had no idea on what ground I was found in”, and a bit later he mentions being reborn “Remember me love, when I’m reborn”
• in “nfwmb”, “

  Ain’t it a gentle sound, the rolling in the graves?
  
  ”

• then again in “like real people do” (which begs the question, is one of them not a real person? hozier are you some kind of undead?) : 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?

so not only is she a necromancer, he’s like a zombie or something.

and for some extra crack theory perhaps she is not a necromancer but a vampire and he’s her ghoul, from shrike 

• “Bites on above // But never would form // Like a cry at the final breath that is drawn “ hmmmmmmmmmm
• more straightforward, “ I was hatched by your warmth /And I was transformed”

• and like if you really want to get into the symbolism of it, “

  As the shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn”, a shrike is a bird that kills its prey by impaling it upon thorny plants. idk, kinda reminds me of the concept that a ghoul goes out and seeks prey for their vampire to sink their thorns,i mean fangs into

• and just from “angel of death and the codeine scene” “

  Feeling more human and hooked on her flesh I // Lay my heart down with the rest at her feet // Fresh from the fields, all feeder and fur tires //Bloody and raw, but I swear it is sweet”

anyway thanks for coming to my ted talk