: The lyric "baffled, bewildered" captures the disorientation of someone who has lived in the dark for so long that the "size" of a genuine love feels physically impossible to measure.
: Inserting a sense of "home" into a relationship that feels like a "wretched" sin creates a haunting duality. It suggests that maybe the truest heaven isn't a place you're born into, but a place you have to "give hell" just to live through.
There is a specific kind of vertigo that comes with finding exactly what you need in a place you were taught to fear. In the track Hozier doesn't just sing about love; he sings about the theft of paradise .
He knows firsthand because he's experiencing it in their relationship. Before this relationship, he was probably against adultery, Hozier From Eden Song Lyrics Analysis