hoary

no longer humorous, interesting, or meaningful due to repetition over time

Heard in 9 songs (1.2M+ combined views) — most famously in "The Sweetest Chill" by Siouxsie and the Banshees.

Updated September 27, 2026

Songs Featuring “hoary”

Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Sweetest Chill

Time: 2:40

Calling you, tears thaw my sleep

Wanting you, this hoary web is weaved

From this strange confusion

Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Sweetest Chill

Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros - Hot Coals

Time: 0:39

Jewelry gone, eyes still blue

Thin memories in love with you, my hoary fire

In love with you.

Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros - Hot Coals

Sting - The Burning Babe

Time: 0:05

As I in hoary winter's night stood shivering in the snow

Surprised I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow

Sting - The Burning Babe

Deadletter - Relieved

Time: 1:34

In comes repetition, tryna swallow, it's a mission, special operatives deployed

I'm a sucker for a story, but you harvest heaps of hoary, there goes patience, destroyed

It's wonderful to be here, I say glancing in the bathroom mirror, safely shielded

Deadletter - Relieved

Richard Dawson - Scientist

Time: 0:56

I have lugged this strange contraption

Over many a hoary dale

Unbar the gate! Take me to the house

Richard Dawson - Scientist

Morgoth - Nemesis

Time: 1:23

I have plunged like a deer through the arches

of the hoary primordial grove,

where the oaks feel the presence that marches

Morgoth - Nemesis

Death in June - Death of A Man

Time: 3:56

Death whispered on angel's frozen breath

Borne down by hoary wings

A butcher's kiss

Death in June - Death of A Man

Pogues - Tosspint

Time: 1:18

Tosspint drinks lustily and pees against the Sun

All around the hoary oak the laughing maidens run

Tosspint warms his codpiece to the flour adds the yeast

Pogues - Tosspint

Wolcensmen - Lorn and Loath

Time: 1:51

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Hoary wildwood

Where within, a rood

Wolcensmen - Lorn and Loath