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Florence + the Machine – Never Let Me Go Lyrics 12 years ago
Looking up from underneath
Fractured moonlight on the sea
Reflections still look the same to me
As before I went under

This part I see a girl underwater staring blankly at sky. To us looking at the water would see the fractured moonlight, but seeing as she's under everything (i.e. reflections) look the same. the "as before..." part before see went under she was probably looking in, so the reflections look like before she went under because she's on the other side.

And it's peaceful in the deep
Cathedral where you cannot breathe
No need to pray no need to speak

Under water it's peaceful and quiet like a Cathedral but you can't breath surround by nothing but water. no need to pray/speak because she gave up the idea of God either as being real, her savior, or she just didn't care.

And it's breaking over me
A thousand miles down to the sea bed
Found the place to rest my head
Never let me go
Never let me go

Breaking as in waves overhead and it took a thousand miles but she finally found peace which she couldn't do because the world was cruel and loud and she just couldn't find peace

And the arms of the ocean are carrying me
And all this devotion was rushing out of me
In the crushes of heaven for a sinner like me
But the arms of the ocean delivered me

The "arms of the ocean" that just trying to show the fact that she is indeed getting pulled/carried out further into the sea. The devotion would be the reasons she wanted to live (i.e. husband, family, parents, church?.) the last 2 lines deal with the church's point of things like committing suicide is wrong and she thinks she'll be on the outside, or rusty parts of heaven, but then she doesn't care because the ocean gave her the peace she was looking for, but could never find no matter how hard she tried.

Though the pressure's hard to take
It's the only way I can escape
It seems a heavy choice to make
And now I am under all

She's pretty far down and she knows th pressure of the water on her body is to take, or hard to endure, but it's the only way she can escape not her life, but other unknown circumstances.

And it's breaking over me
A thousand miles down to the sea bed
Found the place to rest my head
Never let me go
Never let me go


did the 1st part but the never let me go part could be the sea not letting her go, or her family never forgetting her the way she was,

And the arms of the ocean are carrying me
And all this devotion was rushing out of me
In the crushes of heaven for a sinner like me
But the arms of the ocean delivered me

(Done previously ^)

And it's over
And I'm going under
But I'm not giving up
I'm just giving in

This part like a last breath type of thinking, Her life's over she can't return, probably doesn't want to either. She saying she not giving up on life just giving to ocean' s will or she wants her family know she's not giving up but finally giving in to the pain she's lived with for who knows how long.

I'm slipping underneath
So cold and so sweet

slipping underneath kind of like going unconscious the water's cold but it's sweet, as in peaceful.


And the arms of the ocean
So sweet and so cold
And all this devotion I never knew at all
In the crushes of heaven for a sinner released
But the arms of the ocean delivered me

The arms meaning it's surrounding her is like an oxymoron it's sweet giving her peace, but cold by taking away her life and it's literally cold.

Never let me go
Never let me go
Deliver me
Never let me go
Never let me go
Deliver me
Never let me go
Never let me go
Deliver me
Never let me go
Never let me go

She's must likely talking to her family, never let her go in memory, or the ocean that's holding her and delivered her made her find peace,

And it's over
And I'm going under
But I'm not giving up
I'm just giving in

It's over as in no turning back now and again not giving up but giving in to the ocean trying to explain for her family's sake.

I'm slipping underneath
So cold and so sweet

She's going unconscious and it's cold because she thinks she has/wants to die or whatever drew her to the option, but she finally found peace her last dying thoughts.

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