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Florence + the Machine – What the Water Gave Me Lyrics 14 years ago
I think it's about suicide. Virginia Woolf committed suicide by filling her "pockets full of stones" and jumping into a nearby river. The line "let the only sound / be the overflow" would point towards the fact that the only thing Woolf would have wanted would be for it all to end; something the water gave her.

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