"Angel of Small Death & The Codeine Scene" adalah sebuah lagu yang menghantui dan adiktif yang mengeksplorasi sisi gelap hubungan. Dengan lirik yang puitis dan penuh teka-teki, lagu ini menceritakan kisah seorang pria yang terjerumus dalam pesona berbahaya seorang wanita yang menggoda. Metafora kematian dan obat-obatan terlarang memberikan lapisan suram pada lirik, yang menggambarkan keterjerumusan pria tersebut ke dalam obsesi dan ketergantungan yang merusak. Refrain lagu yang berulang-ulang melukiskan gambaran wanita yang menawan sekaligus mematikan, seorang "malaikat kematian yang kecil" yang memikat korbannya dengan janji kenikmatan tetapi akhirnya mengarah pada kehancuran.
Angel of Small Death & The Codeine Scene Lyrics
Hozier
I watch the work of my kin bold and boyful
Toying somewhere between love and abuse
Calling to join them the wretched and joyful
Shaking the wings of their terrible youths
Freshly disowned in some frozen devotion
No more alone or myself could I be
Looks like a strain to the arms it were open
No shortage of sordid, no protest from me
[Chorus:]
With her sweetened breath, and her tongue so mean
She's the angel of small death and the codeine scene
With her straw-blonde hair, her arms hard and lean
She's the angel of small death and the codeine scene
Feeling more human and hooked on her flesh I
Lay my heart down with the rest at her feet
Fresh from the fields, all feeder and fertile
It's bloody and raw, but I swear it is sweet
[Chorus]
And lease this confusion, I'll wander the concrete
Wonder if better now having survived
Jarring of judgement and reasons defeat
The sweet heat of her breath in my mouth I'm alive
[Chorus]
Toying somewhere between love and abuse
Calling to join them the wretched and joyful
Shaking the wings of their terrible youths
Freshly disowned in some frozen devotion
No more alone or myself could I be
Looks like a strain to the arms it were open
No shortage of sordid, no protest from me
[Chorus:]
With her sweetened breath, and her tongue so mean
She's the angel of small death and the codeine scene
With her straw-blonde hair, her arms hard and lean
She's the angel of small death and the codeine scene
Feeling more human and hooked on her flesh I
Lay my heart down with the rest at her feet
Fresh from the fields, all feeder and fertile
It's bloody and raw, but I swear it is sweet
[Chorus]
And lease this confusion, I'll wander the concrete
Wonder if better now having survived
Jarring of judgement and reasons defeat
The sweet heat of her breath in my mouth I'm alive
[Chorus]
