| Florence + the Machine – Girl with One Eye Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I like to pretend this song is about two lesbians, one significantly more innocent than the other, and they're both in business together. CRIME business, that is. :D The more innocent one starts to get cold feet and tries to mess up their crime plans, so the other girl cuts out her eye and threatens to cut the sides of her mouth too (think the Joker in The Dark Knight) if she doesn't behave. The song then flashes back to a sexual encounter they had, in which the more experienced girl took the more innocent girl's virginity. The more experienced girl is devastated that the other girl rejected her and their life of crime, hence the line "I'll cut your little heart out cause you made me cry." Probably not right interpretation, but it makes me happy to pretend. |
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| Florence + the Machine – My Boy Builds Coffins Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I don't think it's about that. Maybe to some extent, but it's mostly about how death doesn't differentiate between rich and poor, good and bad. We're all going to die some day and be put in a hole, no matter who we are. | |
| Florence + the Machine – Dog Days Are Over Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I tend to side with those who say this song is about a woman in an unhappy relationship discovering happiness and trying to hide from it. For me, I think of this song in relation to my coming out to myself as being primarily attracted to women. I was engaged to a man I loved, just not in that way, for almost 4 years. I realised over time that I was more attracted to women, and that I really wasn't interested in almost any men romantically or sexually, and the thought made me both happy and scared. I was happy because it felt so right to think about dating a woman, and it satisfied me in a way I thought I just didn't have (suddenly romantic books and songs were fine if they were about two women, in my mind, whereas I hated anything related to romance at all before). At the same time, I was scared because I didn't want things to change. So I killed my happiness with kisses, and I'm sure if I had been legal to drink at the time I would have been drinking too. I ran away from the truth and happiness because I was afraid of my family-- I couldn't carry my happiness with me if I wanted to survive in the Bible belt. I had to leave my loving for women behind. The dog days of feeling unhappy and like I would be alone forever were over, but the 4 horses of the apocalypse were coming with hellfire for me, according to some "Christians". This year, I hope I stop running and tell my entire family the truth, because I've found a girl I really like. I think this song is brilliant in that there can be a lot of interpretations about it, and no one but Miss Florence knows the right one. :) Lovely, uplifting song. |
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