"Cosmic Love" as written by Florence Leontine Mary Welch and Isabella Janet Florentina Summers....
A falling star fell from your heart and landed in my eyes
I screamed aloud, as it tore through them, and now it's left me blind
The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
You left me in the dark
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart
And in the dark, I can hear your heartbeat
I tried to find the sound
But then it stopped, and I was in the darkness,
So darkness I became
The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
You left me in the dark
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart
I took the stars from our eyes, and then I made a map
And knew that somehow I could find my way back
Then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too
So I stayed in the darkness with you
The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
You left me in the dark
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart
The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
You left me in the dark
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart
I screamed aloud, as it tore through them, and now it's left me blind
The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
You left me in the dark
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart
And in the dark, I can hear your heartbeat
I tried to find the sound
But then it stopped, and I was in the darkness,
So darkness I became
The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
You left me in the dark
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart
I took the stars from our eyes, and then I made a map
And knew that somehow I could find my way back
Then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too
So I stayed in the darkness with you
The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
You left me in the dark
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart
The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
You left me in the dark
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart
Lyrics submitted by KatherineKissMe
"Cosmic Love" as written by Isabella Janet Florentina Summers Florence Leontine Mary Welch
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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IMO the song it's about a woman who falls in, apparently, unrequited love with a man. She feels so consumed and overwhelmed by this emotion - blinded by the intensity of it - that she is literally in the dark; totally lost, confused, scared, cannot see the wood for the trees, and also in agony because she believes that he doesn't feel the same way. She decides she has to remove herself from his influence, yet in doing so she finds out that he is in fact in love with her too, so they lose themselves in each other ("Then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too, So I stayed in the darkness with you").
What I especially like about this song is how the chorus is ambiguous enough to be able to be interpreted, convincingly, as both negative and positive emotions; respectively, prior to the middle eight and after it. The first two choruses her supposed unrequited love for him is impacting on her negatively, but in the ones following his revelation in the middle eight she is still consumed by her love for him but now, because their feeling is mutual, the power of the love that they share is powerful enough to destroy cosmic bodies. His love has blown her away.
Such an intense song, perfection.
I think the "twilight" is refering to being emotionless (inbetween "good" and "bad" emotions, just like twilight is inbetween night and day). She's saying that she doesn't want him to leave her not being able to feel anything. She either want's him to go ahead and proclaim that he doesn't love her back (and leave her heart broke), or she want's him to tell her that he DOES love her back. Either way, she wants to be able to FEEL something (whether it be for *him* or someone else).
"And in the dark, I can hear your heartbeat
I tried to find the sound
But then it stopped, and I was in the darkness,
So darkness I became"
What does that mean????
This is musical perfection...and yes- please for the love of everything sacred in this world...DO NOT ASSOCIATE THIS SONG WITH ANY OF STEPHENIE MEYER'S GARBAGE. This song reaches so much further than teenybopper bullshit. This song is art in its highest form. "Twilight" "New Moon" and all those other books and movies are not even in the same realm as art.
I heard this the first time on the radio, and the radiowoman said that the singer wrote this song while she was living with her boyfriend.
To me, it's more about staying with someone even though you don't really want to, but you can't leave him/her for any number of reasons.
"I took the stars from our eyes, and then I made a map
And knew that somehow I could find my way back
Then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too
So I stayed in the darkness with you"
Maybe it means that she stayed with him, but had a backup plan if some day she couldn't take it no more. :)
Just my interpretation. Definetely think there's some sort of dark/corrupting vibe to the song. Absolutely beautiful! One of the most touching songs I've ever heard.
I think she is in love despite the difficulties in the relationship.
What an absolutely mediocre companion to an amazing song. Very powerful.
To me, this song is about a woman who has fallen quickly and passionately in love with a man when she wasn't expecting it. He is a man plagued by something, haunted by his past perhaps. She was trying to help him out of the dark part of himself, but in doing so she fell victim to the darkness as well. Possibly a drug problem, depression, or even a terminal illness.
Absolutely Amazing Song.
Absolutely Amazing Voice.
An Absolutely Amazing Woman!
I also agree that there are dark underlying themes. From the very beginning of the song when she admits she fell in love, it isn't a happy go-lucky love. It has her screaming, and she loses something critical (eyesight to represent something very important). The story begins and ends in darkness, and she seems to be allured by her new world as well as afraid ("No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight" <- she's trying to describe her surreal situation) While she plans ways to maybe get away from that confusing love (creating the map)-at least in the world of the song- she never does. There's something magnetic that keeps her there.
That's what I gleaned from it.