| Florence + the Machine – Breaking Down Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I actually had another good theory that went this way. We know What the Water Gave Me is about Virginia Woolf saying "oh my love dont forget me when i let the water take me (pockets full of stones)." This song could be her speaking from Virginia's point of view as well, and what she was thinking as she was breaking down for the last time before she ended her life. The following is the suicide note left for her husband who was in WWII and she was "all alone" and "breaking down" after their home in London was bombed and she was staying in Sussex near the river Ouse... "Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier 'til this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that — everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been. V. |
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| Florence + the Machine – Breaking Down Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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besides it seems like she actually is comforted but scared and ashamed of this thing thats creeping towards her and making her "break down". Loneliness isn't comforting.... She's all alone (nodding off) and her old friend comes to keep her company (make her feel good inside) but in actuality shes alone. and knows she's worse off for it... sorry to type so much i just love the song. |
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| Florence + the Machine – Breaking Down Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I feel the song deals with addiction and relapse. Hear me out. this is my first post btw.... Addiction is lonely and relapse is very depressing but oh so comforting. it's like an old familiar friend coming lying next to you. even when youre completely alone. Even as a child she may have dealt with addiction but more like the monster it truly is (from an addicted parent). She'd always known there was something to be frightened of. And now as an adult who is "breaking down", even with her eyes shut tight she feels that old familiar "friend" ("sting" in the words of Trent Reznor and J. Cash), coming and lying down next to her. True it may not be her addiction, heroin addiction or addiction at all, and this is all speculation but, I thought it was a more insightful explanation than "being lonely". | |
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