| Florence + the Machine – Between Two Lungs Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I do think it was written to be a love song. I just saw a comment on youtube though, on how someone had it played on a funeral as the coffin was bought in. Somehow that seems very fitting too in a heartbreakingt kind of way. If you look at the lyrics that way, they definitely make sense too. The "sigh that blew me forward" was released from between two lungs could very well be read as someone dying. I know (almost completely sure) it wasn't intended that way. But that someone thought of this song for a funeral..I really do think it fits beautifully. The ground finally falls below, no more gasping for a breath - even though we are all too young to die ( and we are, even when we're really old). Yeah. I know, slightly morbid, but yes. I think it was a beautiful choice of a song. It just makes situations like those even sadder because the song doesn't really sound that way. Probably for the same reason why Somewhere over the rainbow sounds so incredibly sad. |
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| Florence + the Machine – Blinding Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I agree about it hardly sounding like a love song. If anything it sounds like someone trying to let go of false hopes and expectations/seeing how something really is. I think it can have a lot of meanings though. It has a lot of folklore/mythology/otherworldish references and metaphors doesn't it? No kiss, no gentle word could wake me from this slumber"" - Sleeping beauty. Calling like a crow? Snowwhite stitching up circuitboards? Synapse slipping through the hidden door? What really struck me was "No more dreaming like a girl so in love with the wrong world". I think I know what she means, but it'd be hard to explain. Also, it could be it only means that to me, haha. It sounds like she's trying to let go of a longing of non-existant things because it stops her in some way or another. It could be I'm completely off mark, and I probably am. But that's what it makes me think of - that feeling you sometimes get of being misplaced and wishing for something "more". It can make you pretty depressed and unproductive. Okay, that was my personal, probably incorrect take on this. :) |
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