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Nobody’s Soldier by Hozier
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“Nobody’s Soldier” focuses on the experience of witnessing war and violence worldwide in the digital age, including the mental health strain of being exposed to others’ suffering and the frustration of feeling helpless or complicit. Hozier reacts to these feelings by rejecting the pressure to tacitl...
Nobody’s Soldier Lyrics
Lyrics From Live Debut
[Verse 1]
Running with wolves
Working my miracles
Holding my world together with a bootstring
Living the dream
Benzos and gasoline
Coffee and blue light screens till the morning
[Pre-Chorus]
If I tell you this is drowning
You'll tell me I'm walking on water
I could bring fire from the mountain
You'd tell me it feels a little colder
[Chorus]
I don't wanna choose between being a salesman or a soldier
Just let me look a little older
Let me step a little bolder
Choose between being a butcher or a pauper
Honey, I'm taking no ordеrs
Gonna be Nobody's Soldier
[Verse 2]
Sick to my skin
Watching the nеws again
Whatever you choose, you lose out in the long run
Paint on the walls
Comes down like a waterfall
The goal I was aiming for was the wrong one
[Pre-Chorus]
If I say that this is drowning
You'll tell me I'm walking on water
I could bring fire from the mountain
You'd tell me it feels a little colder
[Chorus]
I don't wanna choose between being a salesman or a soldier
Just let me look a little older
Let me step a little bolder
Choose between being a butcher or a pauper
Honey, I'm taking no orders
Gonna be Nobody's Soldier
[Bridge]
Mmm being a butcher (Nobody's Soldier)
Or a pauper (Nobody's Soldier)
I'm gonna (Nobody's Soldier)
I'm gonna be Nobody's soldier
[Chorus]
I don't wanna choose between being a salesman or a soldier
Stand here, just let me look a little older
Let me step a little bolder
Choose between being a butcher or a pauper
Honey, I'm taking no orders
Gonna be Nobody's Soldier
Nobody’s Soldier Q&A
What did Hozier say about "Nobody’s Soldier"?
The civil rights movement that took place here in the United States directly inspired the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland, very shortly afterwards in a time and place where not every single person was guaranteed the right to vote.
We’ve been singing this song in solidarity with anybody wh...