Cherry Wine (live) - Hozier

Shot and edited by Dara Munnis Photography

Audio recorded live by Hozier.

This recording appears on Hozier the album.

[sparrowhawk]

I’m like
87% positive that this man is an immortal Celtic deity

[kurtus.]

Did he really shoot arguably his best track in one take? Arguably one of the best pieces of music I have ever heard... in one take?

[katieleighh]

The “oh momma don’t fuss over me” line kills me everytime

[wickedtraditions]

Birds singing in the background was icing on the cake.

[russelllahna]

"She loves like sleep to the freezing" hits me hard. If you're suffering from hypothermia and fall asleep, the odds are good that you won't wake up. In other words, her love is slowly killing him.

[TessaJohnsonMusic]

This song is so interesting and written so brilliantly...he's singing about being abused and cheated on by this woman, but he's still so drawn to her and tries to justify it. You don't often hear about men being abused by women and I think this is really eye-opening. How many men are abused by women but are too proud or too afraid to lose the woman to admit it? Such a great song, and Hozier is an amazing songwriter. Can't wait to hear more from him in the future. 

[jasonallenwise]

Sound Tech: Alright man, what do you want to record today?

Hozier: Let's make trespassing beautiful.

[llee]

Her eyes and words are so icy
Oh but she burns
Like rum on the fire
Hot and fast and angry
As she can be
I walk my days on a wire.

It looks ugly, but it's clean,
Oh momma, don't fuss over me.

The way she tells me I'm hers and she is mine
Open hand or closed fist would be fine
The blood is rare and sweet as cherry wine.

Calls of guilty fall on me
All while she stains
The sheets of some other
Thrown at me so powerfully
Just like she throws with the arm of her brother.

But I want it, it's a crime
That she's not around most of the time.

The way she shows me I'm hers and she is mine
Open hand or closed fist would be fine
Blood is rare and sweet as cherry wine.

Her fight and fury is fiery
Oh but she loves
Like sleep to the freezing
Sweet and right and merciful
I'm all but washed
In the tide of her breathing.

And it's worth it, it's divine
And I can have this some of the time.

The way she shows me I'm hers and she is mine
Open hand or closed fist would be fine
The blood is rare and sweet as cherry wine.

[patrickplsxo]

I've never fallen in love with an artist's soul so fast.

Hauntingly beautiful.

[abbyother]

This song is actually extremely beautiful and sad.

It's fairly obvious that this song is about the abuse he is suffering in a relationship, but the way that he writes it is so amazing in addressing gender roles of how he's feeling it can't truly be abuse because he's male, and It shouldn't hurt him. And the fact that he still loves her "Her fight and fury's fiery, oh but she loves like sleep to the freezing." makes it all the more tragic.

Some of the lyrics are just so well written and full of so much emotion they sent me into a mini existential crisis.

[thaliadacosta]

his voice is the best possible mix of sex, honesty, longing, and vulnerability

[mimor]

Victim or not, he is dealing with it through the most beautiful way, art=music. Plus, if you listen to the lyrics, you'd see that she is cheating on him, "staining the sheets of another". And... "the way she shows me I'm hers and she's mine, open hand or closed fist, will be fine", clearly means that she has the upper hand. This is pure beauty, no matter what anyone says. That is what is so great about art; it is open to interpretation. Nobody shares the same perspective or hears the same song, or feels the same sunlight.

[catherinemagnusson]

Don't get me wrong, "Take me to Church" is a wonderful song. But I think this should of gotten all the radio/air time That Take me to church received.

[stephstergis]

That side smile when he sings "like sleep to the freezing" - oh my!

[melicruzr]

If I had a voice like this, I would sing myself to sleep everynight. Or if I had a boyfriend who sang like this, but yeah...

[rodionraskolnikov]

he's making the finger picking look so easy. ive been trying it, i almost had a seizure...

[AvaBruno]

Watching Hozier play live sessions is hypnotic. I can't take my eyes off him; the way he keeps his eyes closed most of the time, so lost in the music and the feeling of it, the way his pitches and guitar are so melodious and perfect, makes my whole self feel buzzed with happiness and peace. And the live sessions are, in my opinion, just as good or even better than the studio recordings. There's just something about hearing the raw, unchanged sound of Hozier's voice live that is completely mesmerizing. 

[donnarose]

Beautiful. Old-fashioned and utterly modern. Genius.

[bkzwolf]

Forgive me if I'm over thinking this. But this guy has such poetic genius that he flipped the temperature in relation to the good and bad side of her. At first the icy marking her bad and the burn juxtaposing it. At the end fiery being her bad and freezing being the soothing. It just feels like more emphasis of this not just being a beaten man, but someone with straight up Stockholm.

[asmitabhadra]

the absolute madman.... he recorded the birds singing.... crazy forest faerie...