Love Poems in the Wasteland

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¹ A Golden Shovel from “Wasteland, Baby!” by Hozier:
“And you’ll gaze unafraid as they sob from the city roofs. Wasteland baby, I’m in love, I’m in love with you.”

² A Reversed Golden Shovel from “Be” by Hozier:
“Be as you’ve always been”

³ A Golden Shovel from “Almost (Sweet Music)” by Hozier:
“The same kind of music haunts her bedroom / I’m almost me again, she’s almost you”

⁴ A Reversed Golden Shovel from “Would That I” by Hozier:
“I fell in love with the fire long ago”

⁵ A Golden Shovel from “Talk” by Hozier:
“And I’d be the immediate forgiveness in Eurydice. Imagine being loved by me.”

⁶ Sources: Hozier’s Wasteland, Baby! and T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”