In a Week (feat. Karen Cowley)

This gloomy but romantic song finds Hozier singing about two lovers who lie down in the Wicklow hills (the rural area of Ireland where he was raised) with the intention of passing on together. They'll find us in a week When the cattle show fear After the insects have made their claim After the foxes have known our taste I'd be home with you Hozier recalled of his hometown in the countryside during a gig at Boston's Café 939: "Anytime you hear Wicklow Hills, it's usually before or after the words 'a body was found.'"

Asked by The Sun if the romantic tunes on his debut album are inspired by anyone in particular, Hozier replied: "The songs are often framed between two people. The time some of them were written I was coming away from my first relationship. I'd never experienced being in love and being loved before. I would have been processing that."

The idea for the song came to Hozier at the Irish music festival KnockanStockan, which takes place in Wicklow, at the feet of the Wicklow Mountains. "It was just one of those things you do when you're young, you pass the no trespassing sign and then you watch the sunrise from a field and I noticed that my legs were being chewed to bits by insects, and I was left with all these marks," Hozier recalled. "In a moment of very much being alive I kind of witnessed a snapshot of also what would be happening to you if you weren't alive and it was all the same to the insects in that moment. That sort of stuck with me and it ended up being a seed for 'In A Week.'"