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Have you ever heard the song "Take Me to Church"? You probably have; they play it on the radio constantly. Well, Hozier -- that's the writer/singer of that song -- is one of my new favorite musicians. He's got this wonderful bluesy voice that makes you almost feel like you should be watching him sing on the streets of Louisiana. During the entire month of December, were you to ride in my car, you would have heard his album on repeat. 

Today, he released a video for "Work Song," which is probably one of the most beautiful songs on the album. The lyrics sink deep within you and they make you feel things. Well, they make me feel things. So, since he released this video today, I thought perhaps we would analyze the song and the video a bit. Cut me some slack if you don't like analyzing -- I'm an English major and that's pretty much what I'm good at doing. 

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If you feel so inclined, you can go watch the video here. It's probably best, if you plan to keep reading, that you watch the video. Otherwise, I'm just spitting nonsense at you. 

Like in his video "Someone New," Hozier starts the video by singing "live" in what seems to be a small club. Again, this makes him feel bluesy. I don't know why... just go with it. And this couple starts to sway and then dance together as he sings. I have this thing for interpretative dance. I love it and I hate it. I'm always impressed by people that are able to dance, but I don't really care to watch it all the time. However, if you want to get emotion across and you want people to understand sensuality behind the words you are saying, you set it to dance. 

"Work Song" seems to be about this deep love that the speaker feels for another person, a love so deep that even in death, he would return to her from the grave. (This is both horrifying and beautiful. Don't you love when stuff is like that?) The sensuality and emotion that you find from the two dancers -- which turns into many couples, but not everyone in the crowd -- is definitely displayed well throughout the dance. The love that Hozier describes in his lyrics is one that you can imagine is not often shared between two people. He talks about being saved, so to speak, by his girlfriend and that she alone is enough for him. Perhaps this love is so deep and because it is, not everyone feels it. Maybe this is why everyone in the crowd doesn't dance. 

Hozier has a lot of depth in his lyrics and he portrays that depth through body language, which is good as a way to appeal to a larger audience. Most people understand body language and, by the dancers alone, could interpret that the song is one about the intensity of this undying love and how only certain people can feel it. At least, that's what I picked up from it...

catch you later,

Karleigh

"In the low lamp light I was free
Heaven and hell were words to me"

// Work Song, Hozier