Leave My Body

Florence + the Machine

I'm gonna be released from behind these lines
And don't care whether I live or die
And I'm losing blood, I'm gonna leave my bones
And I don't want your heart, it leaves me cold

I don't want your future
I don't need your past
One grand moment
Is all I ask

I'm gonna leave my body (moving up to higher ground)
I'm gonna lose my mind (your history keeps pulling me down)
Said I'm gonna leave my body (moving up to higher ground)
I'm gonna lose my mind (your history keeps pulling me, pulling me down)

I don't need a husband, don't need no wife
And I don't need the day, I don't need the night
And I don't need the birds, let them fly away
And I don't want the clouds, they never seem to stay

I don't want no future (want your future)
I don't need no past (need no past)
One grand moment (one grand moment)
Is all I ask (is all I ask)

I don't want no future (want your future)
I don't need no past (need no past)
One grand moment (one grand moment)
Is all I ask, and I

I'm gonna leave my body (moving up to higher ground)
I'm gonna lose my mind (your history keeps pulling me down)
Said I'm gonna leave my body (moving up to higher ground)
I'm gonna lose my, lose my mind (your history keeps pulling me, pulling me down)

(Pulling me down)
Pulling me down (and it's pulling me down)
Pulling me down (and it's pulling me down)
Pulling me down (and it's pulling, pulling me down)
Pulling me, pulling me down

I'm gonna leave my body (moving up to higher ground)
I'm gonna lose my mind (your history keeps pulling me down)
Said I'm gonna leave my body (moving up to higher ground)
I'm gonna lose my, lose my mind (your history keeps pulling me, pulling me down)

Yeah, said I'm gonna leave my body (moving up to higher ground)
Gonna lose my mind (your history keeps pulling me down)
(Moving up to higher ground, your history keeps pulling me, pulling me down)


Lyrics submitted by llscience, edited by johnsstar

Leave My Body Lyrics as written by Thomas Edward Percy Hull Florence Leontine Mary Welch

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

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    Wow, really, sex? Huh. Maybe, but I think it's a little more metaphysical than that.

    Sometime this site comes across to me as everything being either about a. sex or b. drugs/getting high which it just isn't.

    I don't know Florence's relationship with spirituality/practice of any kind, but to me it comes across pretty clearly as an anthem about one's own desire for shedding all the bullshit that keeps us so worried about whether we're doing things right, being cool, having strong attachments to things etc - and just giving oneself up into the flow of things, whatever they are. Being free of identity for a moment. Trying to let go of yourself and merge with the unknown. I dunno. That's what I get out of it.

    shespeakssoftlyon October 25, 2011   Link

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