Hozier - Sunlight (Audio) 

born too late to explore the world and too early to explore the cosmos, but just in time to explore hozier's discography

Hardly ever hear praise for Hozier's incredible backing singers. They are a choir in their own right and lift his amazing voice to a transcendental level. They are just as amazing in concert.

If I'm a pagan of the good times, my lover's the *sunlight, sunlight, sunliiight!*

Just realized I have the rest of my life to listen to this man's music...this is going to be a good life.

This song is holding me at knifepoint using every emotion I've ever repressed.

I was just scrolling on my dash and saw a post of someone's favourite graffiti from Pompeii “If anyone does not believe in Venus, they should gaze at my girlfriend.“ my immediate reaction was 'Hozier, is that you?'

Did he just create Icarus's theme song? Have mercy on us

“Know that I’d gladly be the Icarus to your certainty, my Sunlight. Strap the wing to me, death-trap clad happily.” Jesus Christ, imagine someone loving you that much.😳

And the reviews said Sunlight was a weak and repetitive track... those reviewers have never had the divine experience of congregational supplication or jubilation.

damn this sounds like the beginning of an epic high fantasy adventure in a journey to restore the heart of primordial goddess and reawaken a dying world

I just got new extremely high quality headphones (as opposed to my broken ones i've had for over two months lmao) and i'm pretty sure i fucking ascended when he started singing

Do you ever thank the universe for being alive in the same time as Hozier? What a blessing

I hope Hozier knows how much he's appreciated for his work.

Lyrics: [Verse 1] I would shun the light, share in evening's cool and quiet Who would trade that hum of night For sunlight, sunlight, sunlight But whose heart would not take flight? Betray the moon as acolyte On first and fierce affirming sight Of sunlight, sunlight, sunlight [Chorus] I had been lost to you, sunlight And flew like a moth to you, sunlight, oh, sunlight Oh, your love is sunlight Oh, your love is sunlight, oh But it is sunlight [Verse 2] All the tales the same Told before and told again A soul that’s born in cold and rain Knows sunlight, sunlight, sunlight And at last can grant a name To a buried and a burning flame As love and its decisive pain Oh, my sunlight, sunlight, sunlight [Chorus] All that was shown to me, sunlight Was somethin' foreknown to me, sunlight, oh sunlight Oh, your love is sunlight Oh, your love is sunlight But it is sunlight Oh, your love is sunlight Oh, your love is sunlight But it is sunlight, sunlight [Bridge] Oh, all these colors fade for you only Hold me, carry me slowly, my sunlight Oh, all these colors fade for you only Hold me, carry me slowly, my sunlight [Verse 3] Each day, you'd rise with me Know that I would gladly be The Icarus to your certainty Oh, my sunlight, sunlight, sunlight Strap the wing to me Death trap clad happily With wax melted, I’d meet the sea Under sunlight, sunlight, sunlight [Chorus] Oh, your love is sunlight Oh, your love is sunlight But it is sunlight Oh, your love is sunlight Oh, your love is sunlight But it is sunlight Oh, your love is sunlight Oh, your love is sunlight But it is sunlight Oh, your love is sunlight Oh, your love is sunlight But it is sunlight [Outro] Sunlight, sunlight, sunlight, sunlight, sunlight

there's something about this song which is legitimately like having a religious experience

Rare to see sunlight depicted as merciless and deadly. This song is beautiful and transcendent in its description of consuming abject love/worship, but it is dark as hell.

this song made me astral project into a fawn eating grass in a forest in ireland

Oh! A druid chant for the rite of spring. Fitting.

this is the kind of music gods may be dying to... listening to this I feel as though I were a part of some ancient celebration like eleusinian mysteries, possessed by fatal desire to get devoured by the sun

I almost cried hearing this one. It’s the feeling of relief after hurting, when you come home after losing someone or something and just fall into the arms of the people you love. It’s so safe.

imagine: a small apartment crammed full of books and vinyl records and streaming full of sunlight, this playing softly from the record player as you sip tea on a small couch near the window.

I love how hozier's fanbase is so positive. I wish all the other fan bases are like ours.

I like to sing this for my elderly dog. He’s deaf, but he rests his head on my neck so he can feel the vibrations.

it's physically impossible for hozier to create a bad song

This song makes me want to preform a complicated dance in the middle of the forest to worship the sun with beautiful, chaotic creatures

For some reason this song actually made me cry. I don't know why at all. I'm just sitting in the library and imagined sitting in an empty church watching rays of light filter through dusty stained-glass windows and I just teared up. This song is truly powerful

I'm a writer and I absolutely would love to write a book about this song. Seriously its so enchanting. On a side note, it reminds me almost of a joke a friend told me. I was overly fascinated with these flowers on a tree and he said "you sound like a druid who's never been a druid before." If I legitimately was a druid this would be my theme song on God.

This feels like Hozier is a ancient bard and he is singing in a sunlit meadow while nymphs and satyrs join in his worship of the sun god

Imagine listening to this in an empty church

This song is like a worship song for Apollo. Lol. I love it!

Ok not to be dramatic or anything but this is the best song that’s ever had the kindness to grace my lowly underserving ears, I’ve never felt this before

This song makes me imagine Hozier levitating in a clearing of the forest from "In the Woods Somewhere" while a beam of sunlight shines down on him and leaves swirl around him. I love it.

This song is joyful, resigned, cathartic. It's the march of life. It's a devotional to the carrying on of each new day, even when it's hard, even when it's blinding.

I had a dream last night where Hozier approached me from an overgrown backyard on the outskirts of a very big city and all he said to me was "sunlight." I very recently started listening to Hozier so I didnt know of this song yet and when I woke up I looked up "sunlight hozier" and lo and behold here it is. I really dont know what to do with this information

There's something so reckless about every kind of love he sings about, like a fanatic about to throw themselves on a blade for their gods. It's equal parts terrifying and inspiring.

The choir just makes everything more magical✨😭

Now it's clear that Andrew is unable to create bad music.

Hozier shows emotion in his music that otherwise would be undescribable.

How can someone not appreciate the greatness of this song for real?? This is pure art, poetry, emotion??? How can someone be this talented?? If yall don't play this song at my funeral I'll literally resurrect.

god, imagine listening to this in an abandoned cathedral in the woods, left to be reclaimed by nature. the sunlight peaking through the rotting rafters, illuminating the motes of dust dancing about as if they were pixies; birdsong in the distance, the wind rushing through the trees.

I was about to fall asleep and then the notification got to me and suddenly I'm wide awake, praising my Forest God.

this song makes me feel more like a plant than my asexuality ever did... ive never wanted to photosynthesize more in my entire life.

Hey, I would shun the light Sharin' evenings cool and quiet Who betrayed that I'm the night For sunlight, sunlight, sunlight But his heart would not take flight Betray the moon as acolyte I'm first and fierce if I'm in sight Of sunlight, sunlight, sunlight I have been lost in sunlight Flew like a moth to you, sunlight, oh, sunlight All we love is sunlight All we love is sunlight But it is sunlight All the titles the same Told before and told again Soul that's born in cold and rain Oh, sunlight, sunlight, sunlight At last, came burgeoning To bury it in a burning flame It's love and it's decisive pain Oh, my sunlight, sunlight, sunlight All that was shown to me, sunlight There's somethin' foreknown to me, sunlight, oh sunlight All we love is sunlight All we love is sunlight But it is sunlight All we love is sunlight All we love is sunlight But it is sunlight, sunlight Ooh, and these colors fade for you Hold me, carry me slowly, my sunlight Ooh, and these colors fade for you Hold me, carry me slowly, my sunlight Each day, you rise with me Know that I would gladly be The eucharist to your certainty Oh, my sunlight, sunlight, sunlight You strap the weight of me A death trap clad happily With wax melted, I need to see Under sunlight, sunlight, sunlight All we love is sunlight All we love is sunlight But it is sunlight All we love is sunlight All we love is sunlight But it is sunlight All we love is sunlight All we love is sunlight But it is sunlight All we love is sunlight All we love is sunlight But it is sunlight Sunlight, sunlight, sunlight, sunlight, sunlight

It is astonishing how this album is even better than imagined in my dreams

This album has renewed my soul and I feel lighter than before

He is not of this world, I swear.

I would shun the light Share in evening's cool and quiet Who would trade that hum of night For sunlight, sunlight, sunlight? But whose heart would not take flight Betray the moon as acolyte On first and fierce affirming sight Of sunlight, sunlight, sunlight? I had been lost to you, sunlight Flew like a moth to you, sunlight, oh sunlight Oh, your love is sunlight Oh, your love is sunlight Oh, but it is sunlight Oh, the tale's the same Told before and told again A soul that's born in cold and rain No sunlight, sunlight, sunlight At last can grant a name To a buried and a burning flame As love and its decisive pain Oh my sunlight, sunlight, sunlight All that was shown to me, sunlight Was something foreknown to me, sunlight, oh sunlight Oh, your love is sunlight Oh, your love is sunlight Oh, but it is sunlight Oh, your love is sunlight Oh, your love is sunlight Oh, but it is sunlight, sunlight All these colors fade for you only Carry me slowly, my sunlight All these colors fade for you only Carry me slowly, my sunlight Each day you rise with me Know that I would gladly be The Icarus to your certainty Oh my sunlight, sunlight, sunlight Strap the wing to me A death trap clad happily With wax melted I'd meet the sea Under sunlight, sunlight, sunlight Oh, your love is sunlight Oh, your love is sunlight Oh, but it is sunlight Oh, your love is sunlight Oh, your love is sunlight Oh, but it is sunlight Oh, your love is sunlight Oh, your love is sunlight Oh, but it is sunlight Oh, your love is sunlight Oh, your love is sunlight Oh, but it is sunlight Sunlight, sunlight, sunlight, sunlight, sunlight

I have decided to name my pet fish after this song. This song means so much to me. It has helped me through so much. The fish is a beautiful red color with purple iridescence, reminding me of a sunset after a summer thunderstorm. The sky was a beautiful gold at the time that I got him. All of this has led me to name him Sunlight.

if only i could be so grossly incandescent

Honestly you know what it is? This music feels like exactly the type of music that they should be playing in church. It's soulful and it's worshipful. And it feels like that deep and abiding love that one should have, that's completely unconditional. I'm not Christian myself. But I used to be. And this feels like how it should have felt then

God bless you wonderful people who understand what a gift Hozier is to humankind.

I love this song the more I listen to it. To me, it’s a culmination of a several sings, most particularly, following perfectly after “Would That I.” If the first album was the songs of a broken heart, this album is of a man in love. Sunlight is the ecstatic expression of that, and of the natural world. It is transcendent & spiritual, as well. It’s just gorgeous.

You know how you repeat a word enough that it stops being and sounding like itself? Sunlight

I'm here because the hoizer Fanbase is straight Crack and I wanna be part of that, I stayed here cause I like hoizer now. Let the moss eat me too children I'm a fan

played this while having a mental breakdown on the bathroom floor. somehow made me sob even harder; but i think i needed to cry. this song's magical.

A Hozier album, what a wonderful thing to wake to

i’ve never clicked on a notification this fast in my entire life

People need to express to hozier how impactful this song is. Hozier does not get enough credit or recogniton for it. And as such, he does not perform it nearly enough.

my dog died recently and i wasn't able to cry until i listened to this song a week after the fact...it was a cathartic requiem of sorts (in easter week...after notre dame). i'm not religious but was raised catholic and this music is very evocative and pretty powerful for me. hozier is a beautiful soul!

Being broken, being cracked open to the point that the world seeps in. This song helps me find power in vulnerability. Hozier is an angel.

I'm sitting in the train, gazing into open skies and feeling the sun on my face through the window listening to Hozier praising "Sunlight, Sunlight, Sunlight". A religious experience truly.

He really wrote a whole song for Apollo worshipers huh

leave it to hozier to make the most heart-wrenching, mind-shattering, life-altering songs ever

I JUST GOT HOME FROM SCHOOL WHAT A TREAT

The way Hozier sings about love is so pure, I can't help but weep.

This easily describes how I imagine love truly feels. Being aromantic, I have very little understanding of what romantic love is supposed to feel like, and I long for it despite my heart not working that way. I instead live out these dreams of love through my characters. Is it healthy? Maybe not, but even still. I will always have my Sunlight.

Sometimes I feel like this song is a prayer. The organ and choir don't help.

This song makes me visualize angel wings and churches. Its just heavenly

Tears flow, and yes, the glory and the majesty and the Victory of sunlight, fills me with me awe. The Power of a hundred sunlight angels in this song.

"Your love is sunlight"... it's exactly what I feel about God's love. Also the organ music at the end, makes it even better 😊.

This is the most beautiful thing I have ever heard.

This song literally feels like pure, unconditional love. I'm obsessed.

I decided to listen to this song because someone said they had something akin to a religious experience listening to it and after doing so myself I feel like that was an apt description

The lyrics to his songs are so UNIQUE!,the sound is just...I don't even know what adjective to use

Im obsessed with icarus and because I've never looked at the lyrics, i added this to my playlist because it sounds great and what do you know 😂

I love "Movement", but this is my new favorite song on Wasteland, Baby!

this makes me wanna dance, almost like jumping around in circles, with my eyes closed, while holding the skirt of my dress and my arm and my lovers' are intertwined at the elbows while she does the same, our hair moving to the rythm of the music in such a motion that it almost doesn't allow for the smiles in our faces to be properly seen but we don't care because we're the utmost happy living our little cottacore life i don't even have a girlfriend 😭

This song makes me dizzy...what a masterpiece.

I just discovered this song from a Greek myth playlist and boy am I glad I gave it a listen. Yet another Hozier song to praise; shame I never knew of it until now! It's helping me get through writing the fifth chapter of my book and I'm ever grateful for its existence uwu Thank you for your incredible writing and singing, Hozier!

This man, this choir, everything is impeccable and so heavenly beautiful. It’s a shame that people only know him by ‘Take Me To Church’

This song eases all of my anxiety. Thank you Hozier.

Ok but this whole album slaps

Broke my foot to this song 10/10

It's pure bliss Hozier ❤

Betray the moon as acolyte

*Big rant*, but does anyone else think of "Take Me to Church"? "If I'm a pagan of the good times, my lover's the Sunlight" I can't help but remember the music video and all the sweet moments between the characters there -- as well as the horrid ones. I feel like this song describes that story too, in a way. Or a story of another same sex couple ("the tale's the same, told before and told again"). But it lingers in the weight of a secret and how their love would bring it to light. They lived in the darkness of night--"in cold and rain"--before they met them. It would be perhaps more peaceful to "shun the light" and live life pretending to be blissfully ignorant. And yet like the night giving way in the face of sunlight, they've fallen in love fiercely for the first time ("whose heart would not take flight? ...flew like a moth to you, Sunlight"). In doing so, they betray the religion that guided their life ("the moon as acolyte") Falling in for the other made them realize that they were never straight ("at last can grant a name, to a buried and a burning flame, as love and it's decisive pain... all that shown to me was something foreknown to me"). And now their life has changed. The image they had of themself and the world they knew before fades like a photo under sunlight - under falling for the other ("these colors fade for you only"). But in the end, it was the life they gladly chose. They'd wake up together each morning, with no regrets. Despite all the pain, of having a religion which damns them, they'd do it again in a heartbeat.

Pelor applauds your song of praise dear bard.. I’m so in love with this immortal bard hozier

You know. This is a beautiful song, but if you take into account the myth of Icarus and Daedalus, it’s an incredibly heart wrenching song.

Last year I put on this song in my car while driving to a funeral. It was so comforting. Now I’m listening to it during the Corona crisis. What a masterpiece!

Need me a man to love me like this song

This song is what I imagine walking through a wasteland would feel like. The merciless and deadly sunlight upon your back, the feeling of hope slowly being drained out of you by it. Hozier wanted to make an album about the apocalypse and hell did he got it right!

ok imagine listening to this song in 8D tho?? an absolute DREAM

listening to this song is a spiritual experience

I literally stopped all other tasks to just listen to the entire album. Gorgeous.

This guy is THE SINGER of our Century !!!

Another amazing song. I wish I could afford this concert 😔. Now my knowledge of every one of his songs will never be put to use 😂

Best musician/artist of the 21st century! Wow! ♡

Everything hozier does is like getting blessed by a god for eternity

God, I want to love someone this badly and have this song be the only way I could describe the love I have for them.

I may not be a spiritual person by any means, but man... somehow, this song still manages to resonate deeply within my soul, lol.