The track is sometimes - very wrongly - misinterpreted as a love song A couple got engaged at a Hozier show as he played ‘Cherry Wine’, which confused him given the song’s dark subject matter. Despite sometimes being misinterpreted as a love song, ‘Cherry Wine’ is actually about domestic abuse – “The way she tells me I’m hers and she’s mine/Open hand or closed fist would be fine/The blood is rare and sweet as cherry wine,” Hozier sings in the chorus. A proposal took place as Hozier was playing the song during a show in Madison, Wisconsin, so he stopped to acknowledge it when he heard people screaming in excitement before restarting the song.
“Congratulations,” he told the couple. “Congratulations on putting the fear of God into me, well done. I’m so delighted for you.
Is that the hand, newly ringed?” he said as the bride-to-be showed her new ring off. “Alright..
. this of all the songs too?” Check it out below: Hozier reacts to the audience marriage proposal during Cherry Wine, yesterday in Madison "Of all the songs as well too" 😭 pic.twitter.
com/ELcXiu40L1 — daily hozier pics & vids (@dailyhozierpics) August 18, 2024 Some of his fans weren’t especially amused either. “cherry wine being one of the view songs hozier actually enunciates in and you can VERY clearly hear the lyrics and the explicit mentions of domestic abuse and yall STILL misinterpret it. i’m convinced some of you listen to music with your ears plugged,” one fan wrot.