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justgivemeabookplease · 8 months

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I feel like I'm seeing only one interpretation of "Who We Are" and the iconic line "To hold me like water/Or Christ, hold me like a knife" and as someone who has done martial arts and knife work, as well as an English major, I'd like to throw in my two cents.

So what I've seen are the metaphorical interpretations (mostly on TikTok too) where they compare water to life/sustenance and a knife to death/injury to the narrator, and so the narrator wants to be held like something life-saving or, in a desperation to be held at all, held like they're something dangerous.

I think the opposite.

From a martial arts perspective, if you're the one holding the knife, you're not a danger to yourself. Obviously, if a weapon is involved at all there is a level of danger, but it is way more difficult for the person/thing on the other end. They have to be concerned about near 360-degree mobility of the wrist and the ability to change hands quickly, so targeting the hand holding the knife becomes trying to completely isolate it from the other side of the body while also preventing the wrist from rotating. I'd much prefer to be the one holding the knife.

Meanwhile, there are other lines in the song to suggest that the knife is more valuable than water.

The opening lines are:

You only feel it when it's lost Gettin' through still has a cost Quietly, it slips through your fingers, love Falling from you drop by drop

This is what it sounds like when you're trying to hold water. No matter how tightly you cup your hands, it will find cracks and spill through. And you'll feel it when it's lost; your empty hands will be wet.

Now look at the chorus:

We're born at night So much of our lives Is just carving through the dark To get so far

The knife is being used to carve through the dark. It is vital, a means of survival.

And also, just think of how your hands are when you hold something like water versus something like a knife.

One is loose and gentle, open. The other is gripped, tightly. If I were touch-starved, I wouldn't want a gentle hand to cup my face, I'd want someone to hold me in a vice as if doing so would mean they are protected from danger, ready to face the darkness.

This is the circle of anger, after all.

#hozier #hozier album #unreal unearth #hozier music #andrew hozier byrne #eat your young ep #wasteland baby #who we are #who we are hozier #hold me like water #or christ #hold me like a knife #lyric analysis #english major

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bibibitchery · 8 months

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the horrible nice thing about hozier songs is that sometimes i’ll be listening like “ah yes, mr bog man is feeling yearning, me too” and then i pay attention to the actual lyrics and promptly pass away

#hold me like water #or christ #hold me like a knife #HOZIER #HOZIER OH MY GOD

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ophanim-vesper · 9 months

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obsessed with how the entire movie is just this

#spirited away #studio ghibli #ghibli #ghibli movie #shitpost #meme #ghibli meme #art #doodle #my art #spirited away chihiro #chihiro ogino #spirited away yubaba #christ you are extremely fuckin selfish die #fanart #I've rewatched spirited away like 2 times in 1 day #love this movie.... ghosted afar...

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wolfythewitch · 5 months

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jesus holding a lamb based on that painting of jesus holding a lamb

#art #digital art #sketch #jesus christ #wolfy religious tedtalks #bible

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mossflower · 4 months

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anyone want to see a fucking trainwreck of an ai article

#screaming crying throwing up over here. this shit has NOT been proofread christ alive

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sayruq · 4 months

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#yemen #jerusalem #tel aviv #current events #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #news on gaza #palestine news #news update #war news #war on gaza #christmas #christians #christianity #jesus christ #genocide

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trashpidgeon48 · 4 months

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Leitmotifs drive me insane, like I hear *repeated melody that has an association with a person, idea, or situation* and I go *tears up the fucking rug like a dog*

#music #musical theatre #leitmotif #les miserables #anastasia musical #sweeney todd #jesus christ superstar #broadway #hadestown #phantom of the opera #ride the cyclone #the hunchback of notre dame #rent musical #fiddler on the roof #starkid

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vulturedimension · 5 months

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we are discussing our childhood passions on the dash tonight

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fox-mulder-gets-pegged · 1 year

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I just wanna say bc I KNOW you're somewhere on tumblr, to the teenage girl who attended Take Your Kid To Work Day at an office building in Ontario, Canada circa 2013 and had a conversation with a middle aged woman in which you showed her your Black Veil Brides fanart and fanfics and ship content and told her about different fanfic tropes including a/b/o verse bc she happened to know who Panic! at The Disco and Fallout Boy were and thus you felt the need to show her your bandblr ship art, that was my fucking mother and I had to clarify all that to her including looking my mother in the eye and trying to explain a/b/o verse without sounding like a lunatic.

It's been 10 years and I still regularly sent evil energies in your direction. Since you'd be probably two years younger than me and thus legally an adult now, please know if this post reaches you it's on sight.

#she cornered me in the car and asked what shipping was and i almost had a fucking heart attack #imagine being like 16 years old and habing to explain knotting to your mother #random emo music girl I'm glad you had fun talking about your Band Guys to my mother #bc i also attended take your kid to work day at that office and i know how boring it was #but christ alive why did you have to fuck me like that?#anyways i hope this post reaches you so at the very least you know i think about you at least once a week #this has been weighing on me for ten years #im almost tempted to blaze this post

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possamble · 5 days

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oh they super understood the assignment this time holy shit

#dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi spoilers #falin touden #i know this is supposed to be super scary and it IS #but also oooh ma'am are you free on thursday jesus christ #i can't get enough of seeing her angry and violent and not at all pleasant #perhaps this is the first time that face has ever made those expressions #dungeon meshi episode 17 spoilers

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mythology-void · 3 months

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guys holy crap look what I just found

THE FREAKING TRANSITION IM ON THE FLOOR

#jesus fried kentucky christ #this is a masterpiece #percy jackson #pjo #pjo tv show #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo series #percabeth #hermes #annabeth chase #grover underwood #the big three #posideon

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yoggybloggy · 4 months

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#christ lord ive had enough. yes i shouldve said outside america #but like 5 amending comments and edit to the original post thousands of notes ago #yet only like 2 of you seem to think 'hmmmmm maybe op has already heard about canada's shipping rates a billion times in the tags!'

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wolfythewitch · 3 months

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Commission

#art #digital art #jesus christ #mother mary #john the apostle #wolfy religious tedtalks #bible #commissions

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castielsprostate · 8 months

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i hate you "influencers", i hate you tiktok, i hate you "content creators", i hate you "unalive" and "s€x" and "dr/ügs", i hate you instagram, i hate you consumerism, i hate you family friendly, i hate you puritans, i hate you facebook, i hate you family vloggers, i hate you violating other people's privacy, i hate you modern day social media

#sjonnie.text #i just saw someone make a 50 SECONDS reel about combining movie genres and movies and it was scream and romance and it was 50 SECONDS and #they said “i'm sorry i unalived all those people” go actually fuck yourself.#IF YOU CAN'T SAY THE WORD MURDER KILL DRUGS SEX ETC YOU ARE NOT READY TO HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT THOSE TOPICS #AND SHOULD NOT PRODUCE CONTENT OF IT #i hate this “family friendly” aesthetic jesus fucking christ #text post #anti instagram #anti tiktok #anti influencers #anti capitalism #20k

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greykolla-art · 2 months

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