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“I, Carrion (Icarian)” is a reimagining of the Greek myth of Icarus as a love song. Hozier has explained that the song imagines Icarus as so in love that he is unaware that he is dying; the speaker in the song does not care whether he falls, as long as his love is with him.
The artist said while ex...
[Intro]
If the wind turns, if I hit a squall
Allow the ground to find its brutal way to me
[Verse 1]
I feel lighter than I have in so much time
I've crossed the border line of weightless
One deep breath out from the sky
I've reached a rarer height now that I can confirm
All our weight is just a burden offered to us by the world
[Pre-Chorus]
And though I burn, how could I fall
When I am lifted by every word you say to me?
[Chorus]
If anything could fall at all, it's the world
That falls away from me
[Verse 2]
You have me floatin' like a feather on the sea
While you're as heavy as the world
That you hold your hands beneath
Once I wondered what was holdin' up the ground
But I can see that all along, love, it was you all the way down
[Pre-Chorus]
Leave it now, I am sky-bound
If you need to, darlin', lean your weight to me
[Chorus]
We'll float away, but if we fall
I only pray, don't fall away from me
[Bridge]
I do not have wings, love, I never will
Soarin' over a world you are carryin'
If these heights should bring my fall
Let me be your own
Icarian carrion
If the wind turns, if I hit a squall
Allow the ground to find its brutal way to me
[Chorus]
If I should fall on that day
I only pray, don't fall away from me
I, Carrion (Icarian) was written by Jennifer Decilveo & Hozier.
I, Carrion (Icarian) was produced by Jennifer Decilveo & Hozier.
Hozier released I, Carrion (Icarian) on Fri Aug 18 2023.
“When I was first sort of writing the album, I was trying to write songs that existed above ground and sort of below ground. And the way this song sort of started out is, if you can imagine, you know the man, Icarus, the story of Icarus whose dad strapped him up in a death trap and said, ‘Off you go...
It’s trying to capture that feeling when you’re lifting off. That sometimes when you’re falling in love with somebody, you’re met with this new lightness that you haven’t experienced ever before, but it’s also terrifying. To fully experience the best of that, you have to take into account that it co...