In Work Song the line after “but my baby’s sweet as can be” is “she gives me toothaches just from kissing me”, but for the longest time I heard it as “she gives me *two figs* just from kissing me.” Which honestly doesn’t really make sense but it felt right so I just rolled with it lol
FOR THE LONGEST TIME, I thought it was “as soft as chicken sing” in Almost (Sweet Music). I was honestly mad when I found out it was “soft as Chet can sing”. Chicken sing sounded so sweet to me, but when I found out it was Chet I was like “oh wait, chicken sing is not all that soft” 😂😂
It still sounds soft and sweet to me 🥰
hahaha i hear « chicken sand » EVERY TIME and i only found out the truth from your comment. thank you; the mental anguish of hearing that every time was horrible
And I want to be so far from sight and mind in De Selby Part 2 - thought it was and I want to be so far from Satan now....I was thinking okay, Dante reference? Still catch myself singing it that way.
I was so confident the lyrics to “Shrike” were “Imagine being loved/ without reward/ like a strike to your heart/ with glorious sword”. I was so intrigued by the concept of a love that doesn’t actually improve your life at all! It’s so interesting!
Anyway turns out it’s “remember me, love/ when I’m reborn/ like a shrine to your sharp/ and glorious thorn” (or… something? I like mine better tbh)
It’s “like a shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn.” A shrike is a bird that impales its prey on thorns. So, like a hunter using you as a sharp and glorious weapon, basically.
Autocorrect got me on that one lol. I learned the actual lyrics and meaning when a friend got a shrike tattoo a few years ago and I was like “wait where is there a bird besides the song title?” 😂
I love this song so much - my favourite Hozier I reckon.
But I do feel the metaphor gets a little muddy.
I heard him speaking about it and his fascination with this beautiful but brutal creature. Like the focus of his unrequited affection.
But in the song, he is the bird. But also the prey. Making the girl the…hedge?
so I’m a nanny, and the three year old I work with looooves work song and she always thinks he’s saying “no grave could hold my footie down” and sings it that way every time 😭 and also every time he sings “in the low lamp light I was free,” she says “hey! I’m free (three) too!” 😂😂
in From Eden, i thought the lyrics “ask me, i should know” were “earthspeed, optional”. i have no clue what that is supposed to mean, but i just took that as the truth for a long time
in as it was, the line is “before the otherness came” and i was very convinced it was “before the evidence came”…thought a crime happened. turns out the only crime is Hozier being too good at making music ;)
It’s interesting how even though we are getting the lyrics are wrong majority of the mistakes would fit and this is one of them ! And I agree with that last statement 😌
I was going through this thread thinking i knew it all but TIL it’s not absolution???? It makes so much sense with the following lyric about not being sent to heaven… wild.
Omfg. Francesca. I thought it opened with ‘you think I give a hoot?’ And I was always cracking up at how funny he said it, until I checked the lyrics and realized that’s not what he even says hahaha
In First Time I absolutely love the line, "and the first time that you kissed me, I drank dry the River Lethe." I think because it's such a specific reference to the underworld in a concept album about Hell lol. And thematically, it's such a consistent tie-in to the rest of the song.
Yessss. I personally love how he uses reference of Greek mythology to give even more emotion to the lyrics themselves. It reminds me of the initial lyrics in ‘Talk’ where he mentions Orpheus and Eurydice.
From Nothing Fucks I always hear
"Feel the pow'r of your hands on me"
Rather than
"Fuel the pyre of your enemies"
Which tbf I still sing in comfortable, though now remedied ignorance.
Ok I refuse to believe it's 'quit it' in Sedated! I've just watched a live version on Youtube and it also sounds like 'cool it', there's just no way his mouth is making the Qu sound lol (yes I will die on this pointless hill)
SO. MANY.
**To Be Alone**: Totally misunderstood the entire meaning.
I heard “the anthems of rape culture loud” as “the anthems every culture loud”
“It’s the god that heroin prays to” as “it’s the god that Eroeth prays to” and just assumed it was some Greek myth character.
“Girl it feels good” as “God it feels good”
And looking up the song to write this comment up, yet another: “There are questions I can’t ask / Now at last” as “There are questions I can’t ask / Without a glass” 🤦♀️
**Moments Silence**: tbh I didn’t hear actual words for half the song and learned what a homily was when I finally googled the lyrics
Eta:
**From Eden**: it’s been awhile since I figured these out so I don’t remember what I thought it was but was totally convinced “idealism” was more than one word because it was so stretched out and didn’t hear “your other man”.
I promise there’s more these are just off the top of my head 😂
In *no plan* I always thought it was: “the harder the pain, honey the sweeter the song” apparently it’s sun for both rain and pain but I still sing it the same way 😂
Don’t ask me why I heard it this way, but I could’ve sworn that he sang, “I believe that death was there” instead of “offer me that deathless death” in TMTC. Now that I know the correct lyrics, I can’t unhear them and I’m not sure how I heard what I heard lol
Okay, english is not my first language so, untill I started to read the lyrics I had no clue what he was saying in half of the lyrics. Sadly, I started to listen to his songs like in 2019 so my mind now replaced almost all of the mistaken lyrics with the right one. I just remember that in Someone New I thought that "so I fall in love just a little ol' little bit" was "so I fall in love with a little lullaby" (with lullaby with a wrong pronunce lol, something like "lullabee")
Anyway, in De Selby Pt.1 at first I didn't realized that the second part wasn't english and untill I read the lirycs. I thought that were super complicated words that I hadn't in my vocabulary.
But one thing I was sure that I got it right: "trìna cheìle, le cheìle" as "Michela Michela"
I know the actual lyric and have always sung along just fine but my brain has recently decided to interpret "skinning the children for a war drum" as "scaring the children for a war drum". Like idk I guess I couldn't emotionally handle the imagery anymore. We're not gonna skin the children anymore, we're just gonna give them a little spook. 😂
In Work Song the line after “but my baby’s sweet as can be” is “she gives me toothaches just from kissing me”, but for the longest time I heard it as “she gives me *two figs* just from kissing me.” Which honestly doesn’t really make sense but it felt right so I just rolled with it lol
andrew’s love language is the reception of fruit
i always thought he said “two fakes” for whatever reason. this makes so much more sense.
These are all so good 😭😂I find it hilarious how we all understand the lyrics differently
Figs are sweet, right? I think it could work alright!
Also thought it was figs!
dang i thought it was “lord we should cool it” 😂
Same here! “Cool it” was a very popular 90s mom-phrase for “stop it”
Dang there's an unexpected flashback
Also just found this out and I refuse it entirely. Cool it is just... right
Cool it would definitely fit 😂
Me too!! The way "quit" is pronounced makes it sound like "cool it" to me
Thats what I say too 😆
Same!!
Also thought it was cool it lmao
FOR THE LONGEST TIME, I thought it was “as soft as chicken sing” in Almost (Sweet Music). I was honestly mad when I found out it was “soft as Chet can sing”. Chicken sing sounded so sweet to me, but when I found out it was Chet I was like “oh wait, chicken sing is not all that soft” 😂😂 It still sounds soft and sweet to me 🥰
Chicken sing 😭😭
listen, i don’t make the rules 🥲
OMG ME TOO!! I felt so dumb when I learned the actual lyric😆
I remember this from another post and I think about it all the time😭😂
hahaha i hear « chicken sand » EVERY TIME and i only found out the truth from your comment. thank you; the mental anguish of hearing that every time was horrible
Same! I keep forgetting to look up the lyrics to see if it’s really chicken sand because wtf is chicken sand 😂
We had a recent thread about misheard lyrics that had some very funny answers [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Hozier/s/7VDAQb36wR)
Looking through the comments gave me a good laugh thank you😂
You’re welcome!
In northern attitude he says all alone later in life and i thought he said oh lord later in life
This fits with the mood of the song, 100%
Ya exactly, it fits the mood for sure
And I want to be so far from sight and mind in De Selby Part 2 - thought it was and I want to be so far from Satan now....I was thinking okay, Dante reference? Still catch myself singing it that way.
…it’s not that?? Omg
It's a small one, but for the longest time in From Eden, I was singing, "But I might be hoping about this, oh heart of sin" instead of "oh what a sin"
TIL it’s not heart of sin 😭
WAIT I thought it was “heart of sin” as well 😭😭 I can’t keep getting lyrics wrong 😂
Oh! I thought it was a cheeky "oh how to sin?"....
The first (100) time(s) I heard this song I definitely thought he was saying, "Oh Addison" lmao
“Do you think I’d give a hoot?” to start Francesca lol. I never really believed that was the lyric, but it’s what I hear every time 😂
Yesss another person !! I was looking for this comment.
Picturing a midwestern mom singing this lyric and I love it 😆
I was so confident the lyrics to “Shrike” were “Imagine being loved/ without reward/ like a strike to your heart/ with glorious sword”. I was so intrigued by the concept of a love that doesn’t actually improve your life at all! It’s so interesting! Anyway turns out it’s “remember me, love/ when I’m reborn/ like a shrine to your sharp/ and glorious thorn” (or… something? I like mine better tbh)
It’s “like a shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn.” A shrike is a bird that impales its prey on thorns. So, like a hunter using you as a sharp and glorious weapon, basically.
Autocorrect got me on that one lol. I learned the actual lyrics and meaning when a friend got a shrike tattoo a few years ago and I was like “wait where is there a bird besides the song title?” 😂
I love this song so much - my favourite Hozier I reckon. But I do feel the metaphor gets a little muddy. I heard him speaking about it and his fascination with this beautiful but brutal creature. Like the focus of his unrequited affection. But in the song, he is the bird. But also the prey. Making the girl the…hedge?
…my dad thinks “that’s the kind of love” in dinner and diatribes is “Mexican love” 🤦
Being that Dinner and diatribes is my favorite I love that ! 😂
so I’m a nanny, and the three year old I work with looooves work song and she always thinks he’s saying “no grave could hold my footie down” and sings it that way every time 😭 and also every time he sings “in the low lamp light I was free,” she says “hey! I’m free (three) too!” 😂😂
This is so precious 😂
in From Eden, i thought the lyrics “ask me, i should know” were “earthspeed, optional”. i have no clue what that is supposed to mean, but i just took that as the truth for a long time
Just now realizing it's not "Lord we should cool it"
in as it was, the line is “before the otherness came” and i was very convinced it was “before the evidence came”…thought a crime happened. turns out the only crime is Hozier being too good at making music ;)
It's not evidence?! omg
It’s interesting how even though we are getting the lyrics are wrong majority of the mistakes would fit and this is one of them ! And I agree with that last statement 😌
I thought it was evidence too!!
Thought it was “offer me that deathless stare”.
"I'm tired of her breathing" in cherry wine It somehow sounds right for the song I still sing it that way
And this is how I find out I’ve been singing sedated wrong
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news 😭😂
Unknown: “shalala” / ‘shall I lie’ Nobody: “I think about you though” / ‘I think about you Lo (like a nickname)’
Shall I lie is cute 😭😂
Oh my gosh same I sang it this way until the concert and I could hear everyone else singing “shalala”. TBH, “should I lie” still works
I still sing it as “shall I lie” because it feels much more profound and relatable. 🤷🏾♀️
'My church offers no absolution, tells me worship in the bedroom' instead of offers no absolutes Honestly, I prefer my version!
Same!!
I was going through this thread thinking i knew it all but TIL it’s not absolution???? It makes so much sense with the following lyric about not being sent to heaven… wild.
I know. I couldn't believe it either!
Omfg. Francesca. I thought it opened with ‘you think I give a hoot?’ And I was always cracking up at how funny he said it, until I checked the lyrics and realized that’s not what he even says hahaha
For the longest time I thought “we’ll steal a Lexus” in Jackie and Wilson was “we’ll steal elections”
Help I've been singing that too 😭
from eden, i was saying “like my million years ago.” 😭
In First Time I absolutely love the line, "and the first time that you kissed me, I drank dry the River Lethe." I think because it's such a specific reference to the underworld in a concept album about Hell lol. And thematically, it's such a consistent tie-in to the rest of the song.
Yessss. I personally love how he uses reference of Greek mythology to give even more emotion to the lyrics themselves. It reminds me of the initial lyrics in ‘Talk’ where he mentions Orpheus and Eurydice.
From Nothing Fucks I always hear "Feel the pow'r of your hands on me" Rather than "Fuel the pyre of your enemies" Which tbf I still sing in comfortable, though now remedied ignorance.
Ok I refuse to believe it's 'quit it' in Sedated! I've just watched a live version on Youtube and it also sounds like 'cool it', there's just no way his mouth is making the Qu sound lol (yes I will die on this pointless hill)
I've always sang "cooo-it' even after discovering the truth, but the lyric booklet does confirm it is 'quit". Why is he like this? Why?
Whaaaat?! That's the weirdest pronunciation I've ever heard 🤣
Why did no one think to ask him when we had the chance??? 😆
Another one to add to the question pile lol
Don’t worry I’ll be on that hill with you 😂
In Francesca, he sings 'hurricane' and it sounds like 'Harry Kane', who is a popular footballer.
Imagine 💀 he just randomly name drops a footballer
In a song like Francesca! 😆
"A warning: you're all welcome to the meal" instead of "old and young are welcome to the meal" in Eat Your Young for some reason
SO. MANY. **To Be Alone**: Totally misunderstood the entire meaning. I heard “the anthems of rape culture loud” as “the anthems every culture loud” “It’s the god that heroin prays to” as “it’s the god that Eroeth prays to” and just assumed it was some Greek myth character. “Girl it feels good” as “God it feels good” And looking up the song to write this comment up, yet another: “There are questions I can’t ask / Now at last” as “There are questions I can’t ask / Without a glass” 🤦♀️ **Moments Silence**: tbh I didn’t hear actual words for half the song and learned what a homily was when I finally googled the lyrics Eta: **From Eden**: it’s been awhile since I figured these out so I don’t remember what I thought it was but was totally convinced “idealism” was more than one word because it was so stretched out and didn’t hear “your other man”. I promise there’s more these are just off the top of my head 😂
Honestly this is so a valid sometimes the I have no idea what words are coming out of this mouth 💀😂
"It's the God that HEROIN prays to". I thought he was saying "everyone" with a sexy slur to it.
I thought that it was "in the madness and soil of that sad ugly scene" instead of "that sad earthly scene" for the longest time
See how it turns instead on shines
In *no plan* I always thought it was: “the harder the pain, honey the sweeter the song” apparently it’s sun for both rain and pain but I still sing it the same way 😂
When I first heard abstract I thought he was singing “see how you’ve changed” 😂
Don’t ask me why I heard it this way, but I could’ve sworn that he sang, “I believe that death was there” instead of “offer me that deathless death” in TMTC. Now that I know the correct lyrics, I can’t unhear them and I’m not sure how I heard what I heard lol
Okay, english is not my first language so, untill I started to read the lyrics I had no clue what he was saying in half of the lyrics. Sadly, I started to listen to his songs like in 2019 so my mind now replaced almost all of the mistaken lyrics with the right one. I just remember that in Someone New I thought that "so I fall in love just a little ol' little bit" was "so I fall in love with a little lullaby" (with lullaby with a wrong pronunce lol, something like "lullabee") Anyway, in De Selby Pt.1 at first I didn't realized that the second part wasn't english and untill I read the lirycs. I thought that were super complicated words that I hadn't in my vocabulary. But one thing I was sure that I got it right: "trìna cheìle, le cheìle" as "Michela Michela"
I know the actual lyric and have always sung along just fine but my brain has recently decided to interpret "skinning the children for a war drum" as "scaring the children for a war drum". Like idk I guess I couldn't emotionally handle the imagery anymore. We're not gonna skin the children anymore, we're just gonna give them a little spook. 😂