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about this song
In a YouTube video Hozier says: “I think I saw like, like a painting of a Shrike. A Shrike is a type of bird… an interesting little bird of prey that would kill a mouse, or a small lizard – and hangs it and crucifies it onto a thorn bush or a barbed wire fence… and eats it there. So it kind of makes it home in thorn bushes… you can identify a Shrike’s nest just by the sight of crucified small animals around it.” In talking about the