"This is a gift, it comes with a price, who is the lamb? Who is the knife? Midas is king and he holds me so tight and turns me to gold in the sunlight"
"The saints can't help me now, the ropes have been unbound I hunt for you with bloodied feet across the hallowed ground"
"Gone are the days of begging the days of theft, no more gasping for a breath, the air has filled me head to toe, and I can see the ground far below"
"Regrets collect like old friends, here to relive your darkest moments, I can see no way, I can see no way, and all of the ghouls come out to play, and every demon wants his pound of flesh, but I like to keep some things to myself, I like to keep my issues strong, it's always darkest before the dawn"
"I'm not giving up, I'm just giving in, slipping underneath, so cold and so sweet"
"Cause she's just like the weather, can't hold her together, born from dark water, daughter of the rain and snow, cause it's burning through the bloodline, it's cutting down the family tree, growing in the landscape darling in between you and me... I wanna give you back the open sky, give you back the open sea, open up the ages darling, for you to see"
"It's the hardest thing I've ever had to do, you turn to salt as I turn around to look at you"
"I was on the island and you were there too but somehow through the storm I couldn't get to you, St Jude somehow she knew"
"Hey look up, you don't have to be a ghost here amongst the living, you are flesh and blood, and you deserve to be loved and you deserve what you are given"
"I was broken hearted and the world was too, and I was beginning to lose my grip, and I have always held it loosely but this time I admit, I felt it really start to slip"
"I drink too much coffee and think of you often in a city where reality has long been forgotten, and are you afraid cause I'm terrified, but you remind me that it's such a wonderful thing to love"
"'Cause a woman is a changeling, always shifting shape, just when you think you have it figured out something new begins to take, what strange claws are these scratching at my skin? I never knew my killer would be coming from within"
"But I hear the music, I feel the beat, and for a moment when I'm dancing I am free"
Is this how it is?
Is this how it's always been?
To exist in the face of suffering and death
And somehow still keep singing?
This hit so hard during the pandemic. I love this song so much!!
Always liked the first lines of Daffodil
-
*I couldn't help it, yes, I let it get in.
The helpless optimism of spring.
Worn out and tired, and my heart near retired,
And the world bent double from weeping.
And yet, the birds begin to sing, ooh, oh*
“Mother, make me,
Make me a bird of prey,
So I can rise above this, let it fall away”
It’s not the most poetically dense stuff but the choruses of mother just HIT
Also one of the verses in various storms and saints
“Now find a rooftop to sing from,
Now find a hallway to dance,
You don't need no edge to cling from,
Your heart is there, it's in your hands,
I know it seems like forever,
I know it seems like an age,
But one day this will be over,
I swear it's not so far away”
“This is a gift, it comes with a price, who is the lamb, who is the knife?”
“When I decided to wage holy war it looked very much like staring at my bedroom floor”.
The entirety of cosmic love tbh
“Fell in your opinion when I fell in love with you”
“So much time on the other side, waiting for you to wake up. Maybe I'll see you in another life if this one wasn't enough”
“And I'm learning so I'm leaving, and even though I'm grieving, I'm trying to find a meaning, let loss reveal it”
“But I must confess, I did it all for myself. I gathered you here to hide from some vast unnameable fear, but the loneliness never left me
I always took it with me. But I can put it down in the pleasure of your company”
“And I know I may not look like much, just another screaming speck of dust, but, oh God, you're gonna get it. You'll be sorry that you messed with us”
“Gone are the days of begging, the days of theft
No more gasping for a breath
The air has filled me head-to-toe
And I can see the ground far below
I have this breath and I hold it tight
And I keep it in my chest with all my might
I pray to God this breath will last
As it pushes past my lips as I gasp, gasp”
“And all my stumbling phrases
Never amounted to anything worth this feeling”
and so many more.. impossible to choose sorry
*This fantasy, this fallacy
This tumbling stone
Echoes of a city that is long overgrown
Your heart is the only place that I call home
How can I be returned*
We were a family pulled from a flood/tore the floorboards up/let the river rush in/not wash away, wash away
I’ve always been in love with you/could you tell it from the moment that I met you?
oh god there's so many. but I absolutely love "drag my teeth across your chest to taste your beating heart" and "the fabric of your flesh, pure as a wedding dress" from Howl
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And then it's just too much,
the streets, they still run with blood
A hundred arms, a hundred years,
you can always find me here
And Lord, don't let it break this,
let me hold it lightly
Give me arms to pray with instead of ones that hold too tightly
- 100 years
"Sometimes I wonder if I should be medicated. If I would feel better just lightly sedated. The feeling comes so fast and I cannot control it. I'm on fire but I'm trying not to show it."
"Watch me shimmer, a projection of your mother. But don't come crying. I'm nobody's moral center."
"And, ah, my love remind me, what was it that I said? I can't help but pull the earth around me to make my bed. And, ah, my love remind me, what was it that I did? Did I drink too much? Am I losing touch? Did I build a ship to wreck?"
"When I decided to wage Holy War, it looked very much like staring at my bedroom floor. But, oh God, you're gonna get it. You'll be sorry that you messed with me."
One of my all time favourites has got to be “This will be my last confession/ ‘I love you’ never felt like any blessing” from Heavy In Your Arms on Lungs!
I think my two favourite lines from a Florence song comes from Light of Love:
"Well the feeling was always too much for me, it always came too strong /
I wanted to get it right so badly that I always got it wrong"
and
"I want to look away / I want to look away / I want to look away / I must not look away"
I just feel that I can relate, especially when I am at a lower point in life. Sometimes things are just exhausting after trying so hard, but "I must not look away" despite how I feel is just a solid reminder to keep going.
And also: "it's good to be alive, criying into cereal at midnight"
I know, sad, but i feel that feeling sometimes. Like "Happy sadness" from Soth Park.
"I wanted to get it right so badly that I always got it wrong."
Super relatable.
Also, "I couldn't help it, yes, I let it get in. The helpless optimism of spring."
Also very relatable. Where my fellow SAD peeps at? I actually want to get a tattoo with 'the helpless optimism of spring' incorporated. It has such 'this too shall pass' vibes that I really like.
Just remembered another favorite. "We all need something watching over us; be it the falcons, the clouds or the crows."
"And those heavy days in June when love became an act of defiance"
"You make a fool of death with your beauty"
"And it's good to be alive crying into cereal at midnight"
"Am I your dream girl, you think of me in bed / but you could never hold me, You like me better in your head"
"But know, in some way, I'm there with you up against the wall on a Wednesday afternoon"
"The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out, you've left me in the dark / no dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight, in the shadow of your heart"
"He doesn't make tables, dressers or chairs / he can't carve a whistle cause he just doesn't care"
"Heard the voices and caught my breath / so close and yet so far from death"
"Don't go blindly into the dark, in every one of us shines the light of love"
1) No more dreaming like a girl, so in love with the wrong world
2) Now you come back every summer like a carnivorous flower
3) I try to still look with wonder on the world as the roses bloom
A lot of my artwork is inspired by F+tM lyrics.
And I never minded being on my own
Then something broke in me and I wanted to go home
To be where you are
But even closer to you, you seem so very far
And now I'm reaching out with every note I sing
And I hope it gets to you on some pacific wind
Wraps itself around you and whispers in your ear
Tells you that I miss you and I wish that you were here
"I thought that love was a kind of emptiness"
"But you remind me that it's such a wonderful thing to love"
"But I still see you in the light. For you, the shadows fight"
"And I never minded being on my own, then something broke in me and I wanted to go home"
"If I write a song about you does that make you mine?"
"With your Blackpool eyes and your bitten lips
The world is at your fingertips
It doesn't get better than this"
"I have seen the fields aflame, and everything I ever did was just another way to scream your name. Over and over and over and over again"
"And I was never as good as I always thought I was, but I knew how to dress it up"
I simply couldn't choose just 1 because so many of their lyrics mean so much to me
"Then you lean and kiss her on the head, and I've never felt so alive, and so dead."
I heard this song for the first time after the person who I thought was the love of my life left me for a mutual friend and I had to see them together..it hit real hard then and still does today.
Mines is actually a misheard lyric.
One of the reasons I love the song Mermaids is that it reminds me of going clubbing every weekend in the 00s until 4am, and being the same age and nationally as Florence. I really get it. Especially about the drugs involved then as well as all the alcohol and sex. And regretting it all.
And I have been clubbing in Brighton, near the pier.
But I thought the words were:
"And hugging girls that smell like Britney Spears, coke and ass."
Because that perfume by Britney Spears was so massive then and every girl DID smell like COCONUTS (the actual lyric.) But most girls (and boys) also smell like cocaine and, having been dancing, drinking, having sex in the loos or the bushes when out for a cigarettes (I really want to use the word we use in Britain but the Reddit mods don't like it), and doing other shitty drugs. We all had that sickly salty smell of body odour and we called it the smell of ASS.
And the previous line is about doing "shining under lights from shitty clubs and doing shitty drugs." So my misheard lyric makes sense.
Not until I was discussing the song with my best friend and they pointed out the words were actually:
"And hugging girls that smelt like Britney Spears and coconuts."
I think my misheard lyric is the lyric she wanted to sing (even if it's all in my head.)
Anyway, when I sing this song on karaoke - I use mostly my own lyrics. But changing "hugging" to "fucking".
From third eye
"You don't have to be a ghost here amongst the living.
You are flesh and blood.
And you deserve to be loved, and you deserve what you are given"
Free:
And being clever never got me very far / Because it's all in my head / "You're too sensitive," they said / I said, "Okay, but let's discuss this at the hospital"
Sure it's not the most lyrical but I just love the way she says the last part of the line and I can picture the conversation as she's like, grabbing a bag and heading out the door to get help.
"And if tomorrow it's all over, at least we had it for a moment. Darling, things seem so unstable, but for a moment we were able to be still." (No Choir)
"Hey look up! You don't have to be a ghost, here amongst the living. You are flesh and blood! And you deserve to be loved, and you deserve what you are given." (Third Eye)
"I am no mother, I am no bride, I am king." (King)
“But the loneliness never left me, I always took it with me but I can put it down in the pleasure of your company”
No choir is by no means my favourite song of hers but that line is probably my favourite line!
"lord don't let it break this - let me hold it lightly. give me arms to pray with instead ones that hold too tightly." the delivery on that line is incredible.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA -King
Like we said in French "prend mon haut-vote" (take my upvote)
"This is a gift, it comes with a price, who is the lamb? Who is the knife? Midas is king and he holds me so tight and turns me to gold in the sunlight" "The saints can't help me now, the ropes have been unbound I hunt for you with bloodied feet across the hallowed ground" "Gone are the days of begging the days of theft, no more gasping for a breath, the air has filled me head to toe, and I can see the ground far below" "Regrets collect like old friends, here to relive your darkest moments, I can see no way, I can see no way, and all of the ghouls come out to play, and every demon wants his pound of flesh, but I like to keep some things to myself, I like to keep my issues strong, it's always darkest before the dawn" "I'm not giving up, I'm just giving in, slipping underneath, so cold and so sweet" "Cause she's just like the weather, can't hold her together, born from dark water, daughter of the rain and snow, cause it's burning through the bloodline, it's cutting down the family tree, growing in the landscape darling in between you and me... I wanna give you back the open sky, give you back the open sea, open up the ages darling, for you to see" "It's the hardest thing I've ever had to do, you turn to salt as I turn around to look at you" "I was on the island and you were there too but somehow through the storm I couldn't get to you, St Jude somehow she knew" "Hey look up, you don't have to be a ghost here amongst the living, you are flesh and blood, and you deserve to be loved and you deserve what you are given" "I was broken hearted and the world was too, and I was beginning to lose my grip, and I have always held it loosely but this time I admit, I felt it really start to slip" "I drink too much coffee and think of you often in a city where reality has long been forgotten, and are you afraid cause I'm terrified, but you remind me that it's such a wonderful thing to love" "'Cause a woman is a changeling, always shifting shape, just when you think you have it figured out something new begins to take, what strange claws are these scratching at my skin? I never knew my killer would be coming from within" "But I hear the music, I feel the beat, and for a moment when I'm dancing I am free"
Is this how it is? Is this how it's always been? To exist in the face of suffering and death And somehow still keep singing? This hit so hard during the pandemic. I love this song so much!!
I came here to say the same. I work in healthcare and that line became my rock in the latter stages of the pandemic. I wish it had come out earlier
Bless you because that was an especially difficult time to work in healthcare.
Excellent choice! I still tear up at that sometimes.
I cry every time I hear “and the songs like children begging to be born.” Dance Fever is such a masterpiece.
That one is great, too! Best part of that song.
still hits so hard!!
This is my favorite too! The inflection in her voice makes it 10x better too.
Always liked the first lines of Daffodil - *I couldn't help it, yes, I let it get in. The helpless optimism of spring. Worn out and tired, and my heart near retired, And the world bent double from weeping. And yet, the birds begin to sing, ooh, oh*
This line for me as well. My mother loved spring. And then died on the first day of spring 7 years ago.
“You say that rock and roll is dead but is that just because it hasn’t been resurrected in your image?”
The following line about Jesus in a dress is also *chef's kiss*
“and the only solution was to stand and fight”
And my love is no good against the fortress that it made of you
“Mother, make me, Make me a bird of prey, So I can rise above this, let it fall away” It’s not the most poetically dense stuff but the choruses of mother just HIT Also one of the verses in various storms and saints “Now find a rooftop to sing from, Now find a hallway to dance, You don't need no edge to cling from, Your heart is there, it's in your hands, I know it seems like forever, I know it seems like an age, But one day this will be over, I swear it's not so far away”
"Grab me by ankles I've been flying for too long"
“This is a gift, it comes with a price, who is the lamb, who is the knife?” “When I decided to wage holy war it looked very much like staring at my bedroom floor”. The entirety of cosmic love tbh
Honestly you’re so real for saying the whole of cosmic love ✊
"And it's hard to write about being happy 'cause, the older I get, I find that happiness is an extremely uneventful subject."
“Fell in your opinion when I fell in love with you” “So much time on the other side, waiting for you to wake up. Maybe I'll see you in another life if this one wasn't enough” “And I'm learning so I'm leaving, and even though I'm grieving, I'm trying to find a meaning, let loss reveal it” “But I must confess, I did it all for myself. I gathered you here to hide from some vast unnameable fear, but the loneliness never left me I always took it with me. But I can put it down in the pleasure of your company” “And I know I may not look like much, just another screaming speck of dust, but, oh God, you're gonna get it. You'll be sorry that you messed with us” “Gone are the days of begging, the days of theft No more gasping for a breath The air has filled me head-to-toe And I can see the ground far below I have this breath and I hold it tight And I keep it in my chest with all my might I pray to God this breath will last As it pushes past my lips as I gasp, gasp” “And all my stumbling phrases Never amounted to anything worth this feeling” and so many more.. impossible to choose sorry
That part of between two lungs is also one of my favs!
What song is third line from can't put my finger on it, is it St Jude?
Yep, that's St Jude, one of her most subtle power ballads
“ Like the stars chase the sun. Over the glowing hill, I will conquer”
“Cuz your pain is a tribute, The only thing you let hold yaaaaaaa, Wear it now like a mantle, Always there to remind you.”
"It's always darkest before the dawn."
Lately I've been obsessed with "I'm trying to find a meaning, let loss reveal it."
"because it's all in me head, 'you're too sensitive' they said. I said okay but let's discuss this at the hospital."
It’s such a wonderful thing to love 💖
*This fantasy, this fallacy This tumbling stone Echoes of a city that is long overgrown Your heart is the only place that I call home How can I be returned*
This section is incredible!
take me back oh drunken gods of slaughter you know i’ve always been your favorite daughter
you remind me that it’s such a wonderful thing to love 🖤
We were a family pulled from a flood/tore the floorboards up/let the river rush in/not wash away, wash away I’ve always been in love with you/could you tell it from the moment that I met you?
“those heavy days in June, when love became an act of defiance”
Yessss
oh god there's so many. but I absolutely love "drag my teeth across your chest to taste your beating heart" and "the fabric of your flesh, pure as a wedding dress" from Howl
You know I used to hear that exact line as “if everybody FLASHED, pure as a wedding dress” 😭😭😭
And if tomorrow it’s all over, at least we’ve had it for a moment
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And then it's just too much, the streets, they still run with blood A hundred arms, a hundred years, you can always find me here And Lord, don't let it break this, let me hold it lightly Give me arms to pray with instead of ones that hold too tightly - 100 years
"Sometimes I wonder if I should be medicated. If I would feel better just lightly sedated. The feeling comes so fast and I cannot control it. I'm on fire but I'm trying not to show it." "Watch me shimmer, a projection of your mother. But don't come crying. I'm nobody's moral center." "And, ah, my love remind me, what was it that I said? I can't help but pull the earth around me to make my bed. And, ah, my love remind me, what was it that I did? Did I drink too much? Am I losing touch? Did I build a ship to wreck?" "When I decided to wage Holy War, it looked very much like staring at my bedroom floor. But, oh God, you're gonna get it. You'll be sorry that you messed with me."
Just the whole second verse of Cosmic Love.
One of my all time favourites has got to be “This will be my last confession/ ‘I love you’ never felt like any blessing” from Heavy In Your Arms on Lungs!
I think my two favourite lines from a Florence song comes from Light of Love: "Well the feeling was always too much for me, it always came too strong / I wanted to get it right so badly that I always got it wrong" and "I want to look away / I want to look away / I want to look away / I must not look away" I just feel that I can relate, especially when I am at a lower point in life. Sometimes things are just exhausting after trying so hard, but "I must not look away" despite how I feel is just a solid reminder to keep going.
Came here to say these exact lines, love this song so much!
"Seven devils all around me Seven devils in my house See, they were there when I woke up this morning I'll be dead before the day is done"
And also: "it's good to be alive, criying into cereal at midnight" I know, sad, but i feel that feeling sometimes. Like "Happy sadness" from Soth Park.
"I wanted to get it right so badly that I always got it wrong." Super relatable. Also, "I couldn't help it, yes, I let it get in. The helpless optimism of spring." Also very relatable. Where my fellow SAD peeps at? I actually want to get a tattoo with 'the helpless optimism of spring' incorporated. It has such 'this too shall pass' vibes that I really like. Just remembered another favorite. "We all need something watching over us; be it the falcons, the clouds or the crows."
I don't understand All the lyrics' song because my English is not good enough, but I love the lyrics from What kind of man
“For a moment I forget to worry” 😍
Hubris is a bitchhhhh
“I can’t help but pull the earth around me to make my bed” is SUCH A LINE-
"you are flesh and blood! you deserve to be loved and you deserve what you are given" from third eye 👁️ has always been a favorite!!!
I’m not giving up, I’m just giving in
“And it's good to be alive Crying into cereal at midnight If they ever let me out, I'm gonna really let it out”
I am the same, I’m the same, I’m trying to change
I have SO MANY that I love, but my all time favorite is literally every single word of Light of Love
I don't know if someone else has commented it already, but: "And if tomorrow it's all over, at least we had it for a moment."
Yes! I feel that "No Choir" is underrated but it's such a reflective, "come to earth" song. 🥰🥰
"And those heavy days in June when love became an act of defiance" "You make a fool of death with your beauty" "And it's good to be alive crying into cereal at midnight" "Am I your dream girl, you think of me in bed / but you could never hold me, You like me better in your head" "But know, in some way, I'm there with you up against the wall on a Wednesday afternoon" "The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out, you've left me in the dark / no dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight, in the shadow of your heart" "He doesn't make tables, dressers or chairs / he can't carve a whistle cause he just doesn't care" "Heard the voices and caught my breath / so close and yet so far from death" "Don't go blindly into the dark, in every one of us shines the light of love"
SO MANY OMG Right now it’s “And how much is art really worth The very thing you're best at is the thing that hurts the most” It has me feral yet again
1) No more dreaming like a girl, so in love with the wrong world 2) Now you come back every summer like a carnivorous flower 3) I try to still look with wonder on the world as the roses bloom A lot of my artwork is inspired by F+tM lyrics.
Maybe I'll see you in another life, if this one wasn't enough (｡♡‿♡｡)
Make up your mind Let me live or let me love you While you've been saving your neck I've been breaking mine for you
"You are the silence in between what I thought and what I said"
"You said this could have been the best thing that ever happened to you, so you decided not to do it."
And I never minded being on my own Then something broke in me and I wanted to go home To be where you are But even closer to you, you seem so very far And now I'm reaching out with every note I sing And I hope it gets to you on some pacific wind Wraps itself around you and whispers in your ear Tells you that I miss you and I wish that you were here
"I thought that love was a kind of emptiness" "But you remind me that it's such a wonderful thing to love" "But I still see you in the light. For you, the shadows fight" "And I never minded being on my own, then something broke in me and I wanted to go home" "If I write a song about you does that make you mine?" "With your Blackpool eyes and your bitten lips The world is at your fingertips It doesn't get better than this" "I have seen the fields aflame, and everything I ever did was just another way to scream your name. Over and over and over and over again" "And I was never as good as I always thought I was, but I knew how to dress it up" I simply couldn't choose just 1 because so many of their lyrics mean so much to me
“I know you’re bleeding, but you’ll be okay. Hold on to your heart- don’t give it away”
“I told the band to leave without me, I'll get the next flight. And I'll see you all with Elvis if I don't survive the night”
"Then you lean and kiss her on the head, and I've never felt so alive, and so dead." I heard this song for the first time after the person who I thought was the love of my life left me for a mutual friend and I had to see them together..it hit real hard then and still does today.
"Drag my teeth across your chest to taste your beating heart"
Mines is actually a misheard lyric. One of the reasons I love the song Mermaids is that it reminds me of going clubbing every weekend in the 00s until 4am, and being the same age and nationally as Florence. I really get it. Especially about the drugs involved then as well as all the alcohol and sex. And regretting it all. And I have been clubbing in Brighton, near the pier. But I thought the words were: "And hugging girls that smell like Britney Spears, coke and ass." Because that perfume by Britney Spears was so massive then and every girl DID smell like COCONUTS (the actual lyric.) But most girls (and boys) also smell like cocaine and, having been dancing, drinking, having sex in the loos or the bushes when out for a cigarettes (I really want to use the word we use in Britain but the Reddit mods don't like it), and doing other shitty drugs. We all had that sickly salty smell of body odour and we called it the smell of ASS. And the previous line is about doing "shining under lights from shitty clubs and doing shitty drugs." So my misheard lyric makes sense. Not until I was discussing the song with my best friend and they pointed out the words were actually: "And hugging girls that smelt like Britney Spears and coconuts." I think my misheard lyric is the lyric she wanted to sing (even if it's all in my head.) Anyway, when I sing this song on karaoke - I use mostly my own lyrics. But changing "hugging" to "fucking".
"Some things you have to let go, in order to live"
From third eye "You don't have to be a ghost here amongst the living. You are flesh and blood. And you deserve to be loved, and you deserve what you are given"
And in a moment of joy and fury I threw myself From the balcony like my grandmother some years before me
Free: And being clever never got me very far / Because it's all in my head / "You're too sensitive," they said / I said, "Okay, but let's discuss this at the hospital" Sure it's not the most lyrical but I just love the way she says the last part of the line and I can picture the conversation as she's like, grabbing a bag and heading out the door to get help.
"And if tomorrow it's all over, at least we had it for a moment. Darling, things seem so unstable, but for a moment we were able to be still." (No Choir) "Hey look up! You don't have to be a ghost, here amongst the living. You are flesh and blood! And you deserve to be loved, and you deserve what you are given." (Third Eye) "I am no mother, I am no bride, I am king." (King)
“But the loneliness never left me, I always took it with me but I can put it down in the pleasure of your company” No choir is by no means my favourite song of hers but that line is probably my favourite line!
"lord don't let it break this - let me hold it lightly. give me arms to pray with instead ones that hold too tightly." the delivery on that line is incredible.
god there is no way to choose one, so many speak to me in many different ways
Too fast for freedom from Delilah. It speaks to me as someone with Adhd and ocd struggles, also addiction.