Through Me (The Flood) I’ve been wanting to do this one for so long—it’s one of my absolute favorites! But what’s behind the lyrics? Let’s talk about it 💡 It was written in the early days of the pandemic, when daily death counts, grief and uncertainty made loss feel ever-present. Following Unreal Unearth’s theme, the title itself gives us our first connection to Dante’s journey, where the gates of Hell read: “Through Me, the way into the population of loss.” Hozier reimagines that line for that time—we were all standing at the doorway to potential loss. “The flood” seems to represent both emotional overwhelm and mythic destruction (like Ovid’s floods that erase and renew worlds). The first verse shows a lone figure struggling against the ocean—fighting something too vast to overcome, but not giving up. Then comes the personal shift: “Like that man, I looked down into the depths when I met you, I couldn’t measure it” It feels like a reference to a new relationship (not only rom...