# @hozierupdates on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DOJYMnbjs7U
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34047968-hozierupdates-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/d409403be7.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-09-03T17:40:08.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Hozier Updates (@hozierupdates) — https://gondola.cc/hozierupdates

## Caption

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 romantic but of any kind), you give your entire self without knowing for sure the emotional magnitude of what you will be facing eventually.

The second verse is the heaviest for me: grief’s daily struggles to those who have suffered the loos — burial, silence, absence, the cruel rhythm of forgetting and remembering again as each new day begins. Death as the cliff edge of the world.

As the story rises to the chorus at the middle and end of the song, the resistance softens into acceptance: he cannot make it through alone.

This doesn’t feel like defeat though. Just like Dante is helped by Beatrice, who sends Virgil as a guide, there is grace in surrendering. He’s no longer against the water — he’s with it.

For me, it’s one of the best lyrics in his discography—a reminder that we can’t outmuscle the ocean, but we can let it move through us, grieve, ask for help, and be carried forward without losing ourselves.

Hope you enjoyed this one, it was a very interesting research! 
Thank you for reading 🫰🏻✨

———————————————————————————
#hozier #hozierupdates #unrealunearth #eatyouryoung #throughme #poetry #ovid #dantesinferno #mythology #song #vinyl #music #ireland

## Stats

- **Views:** 6,574
- **Likes:** 0
- **Shares:** 0
- **Comments:** 38

## Tags

vinyl, song, eatyouryoung, ovid, unrealunearth, hozierupdates, dantesinferno, mythology, ireland, poetry, hozier, throughme, music

---
Copyright (c) Gondola