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Andrew Hozier-Byrne grandit dans une famille vouée à la musique, son père étant batteur dans des groupes de blues. shrike (ʃraɪk) n 1. But don’t just say “You were a bitch and I’ll never be the same.” No, compare her to a thorn on which you will impale all future relationships thanks to the hard lesson she taught you. Any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the family Laniidæ, having a strong hooked bill, toothed at the tip.Most shrikes are insectivorous, but the common European gray shrike (Lanius excubitor), the great northern shrike (L. borealis), and several others, kill mice, small birds, etc., and often impale them on thorns, and are, on that account called also butcher birds. Il est principalement connu pour son tube mondial Take Me to Church en 2013. He writes not just to express emotion, but to convey it. shrike (shrīk) n. Any of various carnivorous songbirds of the family Laniidae, having a screeching call and a strong hooked bill and often impaling its prey on sharp-pointed thorns or barbs of wire fencing. His music is pure poetry to my ears. Mix that with his level of soul, emotion, and raw talent, and I am obsessively impressed.

You’re killing me, Hozier, you’re killing me. Write a song about a person that scarred you. Andrew Hozier-Byrne, dit Hozier, est un auteur-compositeur-interprète et musicien irlandais né le 17 mars 1990 [1] à St Ives, dans le comté de Wicklow.
The reason I love Hozier so much is because I care greatly about the lyrics. Biographie Jeunesse et débuts. No members of this family occur in South America or Australia, although one species reaches New Guinea.

[Probably from Middle English *shrik, from Old English scrīc, thrush.] A well written song is what makes it exceptional. Most shrike species have a Eurasian and African distribution, with just two breeding in North America (the loggerhead and great grey shrikes).
It’s actually about the Shrike bird and the thorn bush it makes it’s home in. I think the facts given in these lyrics are something each person will apply to their own experience and I’m thinking Hozier has purposely written it this way. Shrike definition is - any of numerous usually largely gray or brownish oscine birds (family Laniidae) that have a hooked bill, feed chiefly on insects, and often impale their prey on thorns. We have an official Shrike tab made by UG professional guitarists.