In the end of the video, we see faces of people who have experienced domestic violence in the form of a hashtag, “#faceuptodomesticviolence”. Light is shed on the complexity of domestic abuse relationships and how hard it can be for the victim to emotionally break free. In this moment, the cyclical course of their relationship is realized to the viewer. They stare into each other’s eyes and while she tries to keep it together for him and hold back tears, he tries to calm her by draping her hair over her bruise. The most powerful moment of the video is when he, the abuser, sees her left eye, black and blue without makeup. Hozier reminds us what the song is truly about, giving a sense of realness to the emotional and physical horror of domestic abuse. The Ronan’s impeccable acting and the editing of the video doesn’t reveal the abuse too soon, giving the viewer that happy folk music feeling with a “hip” couple doing “hip” things in their vintage home with two cats. In the next scene when she is staring into the mirror alone removing her makeup, it seems as though a different woman is dealing with tragedy that has not yet been revealed. Saoirse Ronan, who plays the abused woman in the video, brilliantly shows happiness and excitement in her good moments with her lover filled with kisses, cherry wine, and long draws of gazing into each other’s eyes. “And it’s worth it, and it’s divine, I have this some of the time” Hozier sings about the happy moments of the relationship seeming perfect and like the ideal relationship which makes the abuse seem worth it, although it is only a small part of their relationship. The best moments of this video are seen in the look of her eyes and the contrast of how this woman can be seen as almost another person in a different scene. However, in his emotive and quietly powerful music video seeing over 1.7M views on YouTube, Hozier uses the opportunity to shed light on domestic abuse in a relationship in which the man is the abuser and the woman the victim. Hozier tells this tale in one of the most compelling and brilliantly written ways that I have experienced by putting truth and emotion to a subject that is rarely talked about and in some circles, is even considered taboo. Once the listener gets past the sweet folk melody and Hozier’s soft vocals, the true meaning of “Cherry Wine” is revealed as a song about domestic abuse in a relationship between a man in a woman, only in this relationship, the woman is the abuser. Since its release in 2014, “Cherry Wine” has been a pivotal song in propelling Hozier’s music career along with others such as “From Eden” and “Take Me To Church,” all which have a deeper meaning of something critical and culturally relevant. The buoyant plucks of Hozier’s acoustic guitar and the playful gallantry that accompanies its sound has always been a strange melody to play behind such somber and seriously lyrics. The blood is rare and sweet as cherry wine” the songs of this singer are always somehow connected with drugs.i gives me shivers to think what he had experienced.“ The way she tells me I’m hers and she is mine, open hand or closed fist would be fine.
#Hozier alone with you lyrics skin#
when his imaginary lover (from hallucinations) kisses him and feels loved and alive.He probably might be be taking 'meth' which which make you hallucinate(skin crawling)or (also you itch a lot) so its a terrible experience after the high,'you don't know the hell you put me through, to have to kiss the skin that crawls from you" so basically there is a love and hate relation., where he knows its bad for him., puts him through hell, but he can't stop.,so he feels good to be just with his drugs and his imaginary lover, In second para he most probably is in rehab where "there are questions i can't ask" (can i get just one hit please?)or something like that., he hates the place so he thinks he should run away with his imaginary baby and the baby's mother (from his hallucinations)., but he don't know what else he could do than to just take drugs which creates this completely different happy world for him (and his imaginary lover whom he can hold only when he is hallucinating while on high) so he just keep on going. when he drives himself to the absolute brink of intoxication is the time he can actually see himself as a real person.
I really think this guy had some huge drug issues during his time.,he seem to have lost the sense of reality and the.mind play of drugs, but yet he so clearly sees through the crowd., that you actually try and see through his eyes at that moment when he is really high and he is in a populated place simply glancing at people., thinking of all there pretenses., there fake smiles and everything about their actions.
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