I'm writing a paper on this song, sort of a summary response essay, and I'm having a hard time fully understanding the entire song, I understand he is talking and reflecting on a memory of someone running into traffic to pick up and move an animal that had been hit by a car and staying with it in its final moments. But he also talks about someone specific, someone who he cared about but is now a stranger. I'm trying to really pinpoint the meaning of the song, reminiscing or reflecting on two experiences in his life that have a way of connecting and possibly correlating in some aspects. I think that's why he specifically titles the song Abstract (Psychopomp). In each of these instances, there is a "psychopomp", the dying animal is picked up and moved by this stranger (psychopomp in this) who stays with it until it dies as a sort of guide to the next phase of life. The other experience or memory (what I think Hozier talks about) is him looking back on a time when a specific person came into his life. This person who he only came to realize the full extent of their importance to him after the fact when reflecting back on it. "Your hand in my pocket, to keep us both warm" This lyric leads me to assume that this person was at one point a significant other or "love interest". In this possible relationship could the "psychopomp" be the lover who maybe led him from "an abstract from a moment..." of his life to another? please help!!
@carolinavanderlande4904
11 ай бұрын
The funny thing is: nobody really knows for sure except the master himself.
@ajones1216
11 ай бұрын
That’s a really Good analysis. I’ll take it
@ny2phillyholloway592
11 ай бұрын
I thought the animal was a metaphor for the end of a relationship?
@starrysky1231
11 ай бұрын
thank you 💗 as a chronically ill girly who couldn't attend a concert due to health issues thank you from the bottom of my heart this is my fave song on UU and now I can listen to it live 💕
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