Take Me To Church Poem Analysis

Take me to Church by Hozier
Take me to Church is a polysemous song that used love and ecstasy as a religious metaphor. The song simultaneously advocates for the human rights. The choice of words, Americana accents and style as a blues genre made it unique in addition to its sensual and emotional effect. The song is centered on to address man’s struggle to find his own identity in an oppressive culture of church, in a generation greatly influenced by the Catholic church and a nationalism that he just wants to be free of while a feminine gender pronoun is used as a sort of savior. Hence, the song came as an assertion of self, reinstituting humanity back for something that is the most natural and worthwhile to the singer. Adopting, in this case a female, to choose a love who is worth loving. The song is not meant to be an attack on faith according to the Hozier in one of his interviews.
From the first stanza (“My lover's got humour, / she's the giggle at a funeral, / knows everybody's disapproval” ) implies his description of …show more content…
I think if you take the chorus more literally, it's someone begging for salvation ("deathless death") despite the fact they know that the anti-gay gospel is a lie ("I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies") they go back to their vomit by worshipping in the church even when they speak against the church and the church treats them as outcast. He knows they take your insecurities and weaknesses and use it as a weapon against you ("I’ll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife") but he is still willing to give himself to the church ("good god let me give you my life"). Such a beautifully written song. I think at the very least it is about a person whose lifestyle (homosexuality) is in conflict with their religious beliefs and is causing them a crisis of faith. They can't reconcile this divine love they feel for someone with the fact that the church rejects it as