Thrown at me so powerfully/
Just like she throws with the arm of her brother//
In those line, with literal meaning, it's shows that the girlfriend did an abuse to her boyfriend, even throw an accusations in, "calls of guilty thrown at me,' line. Despite the pain, there is a twisted beauty or allure in the suffering, akin to the allure of cherry wine. If some of you familiar how Hozier wrote his songs, you would understand how he described something in his mind, he's always crafting a love songs about omnipotent, violent lovers, critics for society, as shown by one of his other song like Take Me To Church.Â
Nevertheless, If you already watch the music video, there's no doubt anymore that this song leaves no ambiguity about the song's true subject. It focuses entirely on abusive relationships and how the victim, caught in the cycle of push and pull, rejection and acceptance, gradually convinces themselves that the abuse signifies their lover's sweet, caring nature. The video starts with a romantic scene of a couple flirting in their living room, interspersed with shots of the woman alone at her vanity, slowly removing her makeup to reveal a bruise around her left eye.
The video concludes with a statement that all proceeds, from AdSense revenue to iTunes downloads, will be donated to a charity called #FaceUpToDomesticAbuse. The message of the song is unmistakable. Yet, the lullaby-like melody and lyrics reminiscent of religious devotion continue to mislead listeners. It's still amazing how the lyrics are about a man being abused by his girlfriend and the video is a woman being abused by her boyfriend. It's like Hozier really shows how abuse can go both ways and isn't just specific to one gender.
I couldn't write more deeper than the articles that I use as a reference, they analyze Cherry Wine in a good structure, one of the article that I like is entitled, "Sleep to the Freezing: How Hozier's 'Cherry Wine' Tells a Victim's Story" by Batrisyia Zumli, who analyzed so beautifully, I'm amazed.Â
Enough talking about Cherry Wine, it's Champagne Problems time, I hope you all didn't get drunk yet. Even though the title already put 'problems' word, but doesn't mean all the listeners understood the true meanings. I start to love Taylor writings (I already love her music long before this, though) when she dropped Folklore, then several months after that, Evermore appeared with the same vibes, I started to read the lyrics carefully because that's how I found out there's so much vocabulary and interesting metaphor that I didn't understand, yet.Â
Apart from Cherry Wine, I already knew that this song is about sad story because that one Josephine March and Laurie love confession edits. Even though I still didn't get the true meaning of, "Your Midas touch on a chevy door, November flush on a flanel cure," was, this song is a full of metaphor you should understand. I watched some of couples use this song as a proposal song in The Eras Tour, whereas, this whole song is talking about a girl who rejected a proposal. So, let's wrapped lyrics by lyrics started from;
'Cause I dropped your hand while dancing/
Left you out there standing/
Crestfallen on the landing/
