> This means that the tree - the love, the lover - must be cut down to fuel the fire that keeps him warm > 'weeping' is a callback to 'willow', 'withdrawal' is an allusion to addiction the meaning here is that when the love ended, he was sad > canopy dapple likely refers to the filtering of light through a forest canopy > cotton and calicoes are types of fabric - the implication would be sheets, clothing, underwear. > Hozier compares a woman letting her hair down to the branches of a willow tree, her hair covers him because he's under her. Having sex, his partner performs fellatio to a finish, and so the 'wood' has been handled, but he still 'worships' his partner, meaning they're not through with sex just because he cameĪs long as there's something left of the fire, he has no feelings of wanting to be in loveīasically, the picture overall is one of having sex in a relationship that you know is doomed.

So in awe there I stood as you licked off the grain 'hand of gold' means a wedding ring he fell for a married person and became fixated on them - or - he wanted to marry someone and that fucked him up. Part of it lives within him and the 'flame' is fueled by it. With each love I cut loose I was never the sameĮvery time he parts with a lover, it changes him. He likes this cycle of passion and heartbreak etc. 'ashes of ash' refers to when ash itself burns - so a fire here has been re-lit and is more intense each time.

She's good to him, but she doesn't 'light his fire', doesn't inspire that kind of passion, intensity, or heartbreak. And he's probably not getting broken up with. In the past he 'fretted' (meaning 'worried about') the fire, but he's over that and has come to terms with the process of writing about heartbreak.īasically, this night is not fire-inspiring. 'fretted' may allude to the fret board of a string instrument, the implication being that 'the fire' is Hoziers music. This means that the tree - the love, the lover - must be cut down to fuel the fire that keeps him warm 'weeping' is a callback to 'willow', 'withdrawal' is an allusion to addiction the meaning here is that when the love ended, he was sad Hozier compares a woman letting her hair down to the branches of a willow tree, her hair covers him because he's under her.Ĭotton and calicoes are types of fabric - the implication would be sheets, clothing, underwear.Ĭanopy dapple likely refers to the filtering of light through a forest canopy Though I've handled the wood, I still worship the flame Oh, let it blaze alright, honey (ooh-ooh-oh) Watching still living roots be consumed by the flame Like the ashes of ash I saw rise in the heat With the roar of the fire my heart rose to its feet That the sound of the saw must be known by the tree True that love in withdrawal was the weeping of me True that I saw her hair like the branch of a tree

Cherry wine lyrics meaning hozier