Some Dante for your weekend. Francesca and Paolo were lovers..
Added 2023-05-20 07:32:45 +0000 UTCSome Dante for your weekend.
Francesca and Paolo were lovers who were cast into a Circle of Hell, where they’d be punished in a hurricane for their sin of intense lust/love.
There’s a song conveying her rebellious response to the punishment; even after being thrown in the hurricane, she has no regrets and believes their sin was worth it.
I love rebellious lyrics which challenge what’s traditionally ‘right’ behaviour and show a strong, albeit mortal, sometimes tragic, embrace of ‘sin’/love/lust.
If I was punished by a hurricane after experiencing that level of intensity in a relationship, and then after, when exhausted, I was asked if I repented, I’d say…
“No, put me back in it.” 🔥
Lyrics by Hozier:
Do you think I’d give up?
That this might’ve shook the love from me
Or that I was on the brink
How could you think, darling, I’d scare so easily?
Now that it’s done
There’s not one thing that I would change
My life was a storm since I was born
How could I fear any hurricane?
If someone asked me at the end
I’d tell them: “Put me back in it”
I would do it again
If I could have you for a minute
I’d go through it again.
