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Hozier

Sedated

Release date: 19th May 2014

From Hozier
Track 8
3:28
AlternativeMusicSinger/SongwriterContemporary Folk
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About This Track

Hozier's 'Sedated' traces the contours of escapism through substance use and emotional numbness. The song moves between the rush of distraction and the creeping realisation that the mind has become unreachable, the heart atrophied. There's a particular ache in the gap between what the body does and what it feels: "free and young and we can feel none of it." The lyrics pivot on a pair of intimacies that have curdled. Two people nursing on habits that never quite deliver the promised sting, their senses dulled to the point of deafness. Hozier sketches this as a shared condition, a mutual drift, but also as something one half of the pair might still resist. The plea that closes the song, asking someone to pull away rather than pull deeper, suggests the song knows the cost of staying sedated.

"Sedated" is a single by Hozier, from the album Hozier, released 19th May 2014. The track is 3:28 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 7 articles about Hozier.

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Lyrics

Sedated

Just a little rush, babe
To feel dizzy, to derail the mind of me
Just a little hush, babe
Our veins are busy but my heart's in atrophy
Any way to distract and sedate
Adding shadows to the walls of the cave

You and I nursing on a poison that never stung
Our teeth and lungs are lined with the scum of it
Some whiff of this, death and guts
We are deaf, we are numb
Free and young and we can feel none of it

Something isn't right, babe
I keep catching little words, but the meaning's thin
I'm somewhere outside my life, babe
I keep scratching, but somehow I can't get in
So, we're slaves to any semblance of touch
Lord we should quit but we love it too much

Sedated we're nursing on a poison that never stung
Our teeth and lungs are lined with the scum of it
Some whiff of this, death and guts
We are deaf, we are numb
Free and young and we can feel none of it

Darlin', don't you, stand there watching, won't you
Come and save me from it
Darlin', don't you, join in, you're supposed to
Drag me away from it

Any way to distract and sedate
Adding shadows to the walls of the cave

You and I nursing on a poison that never stung
Our teeth and lungs are lined with the scum of it
Some whiff of this, death and guts
We are deaf, we are numb
Free and young and we can feel none of it

Sedated we're nursing on a poison that never stung
Our teeth and lungs are lined with the scum of it
Some whiff of this, death and guts
We are deaf, we are numb
Free and young and we can feel none of it

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From Hozier

3:282014Single
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Hozier
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20th May 2014
Track number
8
Release year
2014
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    4:02
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    3:39
  3. 3Jackie and Wilson
    3:43
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    • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Hozier
    Producer
    Hozier, Rob Kirwan
    Bass
    Alex Ryan
    Drums
    Rory Doyle
    Guitar
    Hozier
    Arranger
    Hozier
    Cello
    Kate Ellis (Cellist)
    Mastering Engineer
    Stephen Marcussen
    Mixing Engineer
    Andrew Scheps
    Percussion
    Andre Antunes, Rob Kirwan, Rory Doyle
    Piano
    Hozier
    Synthesizer
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