Lyric discussion by girleatingdust 

Cover art for Blinding lyrics by Florence + the Machine

I think it's about a girl in a coma and she has to choose whether to come back or not. I also have a theory that someone betrayed her and sort of caused the accident that put her in a coma. "seems that i have been held in some dreaming state" shes in a coma "a tourist in the waking world never quite awake" shes still here but not really "no kiss no gentle word could wake me from this slumber" thats her being unwakeable "until i realize that it was you who put me under" thats her dream state realizing she's been betrayed "felt it in my fist in my feet in the hollows of my eyelids~shaking through my skull through my spine and all down my ribs" shes having spasms the way some people in comas do because she realized her love caused this/betrayed her then the chorus is about her realizing she's not really on earth anymore. "no more calling like a crow for a body in the garden" its her body she sees and shes screaming but no one can hear her. then the no more dreaming part is about her having to make her decision-stay or go,same with the 2nd verse "and i could hear the thunder and see the lightning crack~all around the world was waking I never could go back" the thunder/lightning is her sudden realization, and how she knew she could never fully be herself again, party cause of her love's betrayal "cause all the laws of dreaming they were torn right open~and finally seemed that the spell was open" she now knows shes not even on earth anymore now and shes refusing to move on(back to chorus no more dreaming like a girl part) "and all my bones began to shake my eyes flew open~and all my bones began to shake my eyes flew open" she gives herself one final push to go back but when she wakes up shes not in her body still "snow white's stitching up the circuitboards~somones slipping through the hidden door~snow whites stitching up your circuit board" im not sure about snow white but she could be an angel,gravedigger, or maybe personification of death?shes finishing up the girl's life and then the girl moves on

This is just an idea but I see the depression view too.

Song Meaning

This is exactly what I used to think was the meaning too. Her songs have, as my english teacher would say, "lovely imagery."

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