“Dont sugarcoat its bile”
stanza I line 4
This got me thinking immediately about this Hozier song, In A Week. It talks about two lovers dying as they lay in a field and about how the animals will come and eat them and once they’re found in a week all that will be left will be decaying corpses. I refer to this line because the song doesn’t sugarcoat over the aspect of death and decay which can be seen as something disturbing or unspeakable. When he says don’t sugarcoat he wants to expose everything and show how everything must be spoken about no matter what it is. Everything isn’t going to be pleasant and we should be able to handle things the way they are dealt to us. Hozier does this with the graphic language used in the song and forces the listener to face that as humans we will all die and rot and become a part of the earth and that we should accept this as a peaceful and natural process.
“Hozier – In A Week (Lyrics).” YouTube. YouTube, 30 Dec. 2014. Web. 30 Nov. 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oho-q53uiv4
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JMERLE // Nov 30th 2015 at 11:39 am
Yes, Alexandra, this is a wonderful connection to a western reference. Osundare, as you rightly point out, is criticizing humanity’s need to deceive, even if that means simply deceiving ourselves. He seems to be asking us to face the raw, ugly truth, as only then can we truly change something.