30 Evocative Lyrics From Hozier’s Unreal Unearth to Use as Your Next Instagram Caption

Hozier's third album, Unreal Unearth, manages to be at once his most profound and most irresistibly listenable work to date, and it's going to stick with us for a while.

The 16-track album is a poetic, epic journey, inspired by Dante's Inferno, as Hozier takes us through the Nine Circles of Hell and back again, finally finding his way out of the darkness with closing song "First Light." If you're like us and simply can't get these evocative and meaningful lyrics out of your head, keep scrolling to discover some of our very favorites, as well as how to use them as your next Instagram caption.

For the nighttime, when you come alive:

"At last, when all of the world is asleep, you take in the blackness of air."

-"De Selby (Part 1)"

 

For an expressionless mirror selfie:

"Your reflection can't offer a word."

-"De Selby (Part 1)"

 

For when you take on aspects of your environment:

"What you're given, what you live in, darlin', it finds a way to live in you."

-"De Selby (Part 2)"

 

For wishing you could be different:

"I wanna lose me."

-"De Selby (Part 2)"

 

For pondering the urge to disappear:

"And I want to be so far from sight and mind."

-"De Selby (Part 2)"

 

For when you'd do anything for someone:

"I'd block the sun if you want it done."

-"De Selby (Part 2)"

 

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For not feeling at peace with your destiny:

"The soul, if that's what you'd call it, uneasy ally of the body."

-"First Time"

 

For the first love that changes everything:

"Some part of me must have died the first time that you called me 'baby, ' and some part of me came alive the first time that you called me 'baby.'"

-"First Time"

 

For when the heartbreak was worth the love:

"Now that it's done, there's not one thing that I would change."

-"Francesca"

 

For when a burden has lifted:

"I feel lighter than I have in so much time."

-"I, Carrion (Icarian)"

 

For the one who makes you feel weightless:

"You have me floatin' like a feather on the sea."

-"I, Carrion (Icarian)"

 

For being the one your love can depend on:

"If you need to, darling, lean your weight to me."

-"I, Carrion (Icarian)"

 

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For when you're so hungry you can eat a horse:

"I'm starvin', darlin'."

-"Eat Your Young"

 

For distracting yourself to avoid the truth:

"It's the comforts that make us feel numb"

-"Damage Gets Done"

 

For embracing the rebel without you:

"I know being reckless and young is not how the damage gets done."

-"Damage Gets Done"

 

For missing something you didn't know you would:

"You only feel it when it's lost."

-"Who We Are"

 

For recognizing your self-destructive tendencies:

"And the hardest part is who we are."

-"Who We Are"

 

For when heartbreak makes you feel like a human being:

"If there was anyone to ever get through this life with their heart still intact, they didn't do it right."

-"All Things End"

 

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For when it just doesn't work out:

"We didn't get it right but, love, we did our best."

-"All Things End"

 

For learning from your pain:

"Movin' on in time and takin' more from everything that ends."

-"All Things End"

 

For the one who's a dream come true:

"And darlin', all my dreamin' is only put to shame."

-"To Someone From A Warm Climate (Uiscefhuarithe)"

 

For opening yourself up to love:

"Have your guarded heart be lifted like a child up by the hand."

-"Butchered Tongue"

 

For wishing bliss were simple:

"I wish I was the sunlight just sitting on The Mississippi."

-"Anything But"

 

For just trying to get by:

"I will not be great, but I'm grateful to get through."

-"Abstract (Psychopomp)"

 

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For lingering on past pain:

"The memory hurts but does me no harm."

-"Abstract (Psychopomp)"

 

For crossing any distance for the ones you love:

"You know the distance never made a difference to me."

-"Unknown / Nth"

 

For still loving someone you've lost:

"Do you know I could break beneath the weight of the goodness, love, I still carry for you?"

-"Unknown / Nth"

 

For when it's too hard to let people in:

"There are some people, love, who are better unknown."

-"Unknown / Nth"

 

For waking up on the right side of the bed:

"One bright morning changes all things."

-"First Light"

 

For wishing every morning could start the same:

"Could this be how every day begins?"

-"First Light"

 

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