This song is one of the songs of the soundtrack of the film 'The Great Gatsby' 2013.
"Over the Love" is, as many of Florence and the Machine's songs, a baroque pop ballad. It builds towards the end of the song and talks about a girl crying over the love for her boyfriend and the distance that separates them.
It is written from the perspective of Daisy, who is a lifelong crush of Gatsby's. Throughout the lyrics of the song we can see F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel symbols, like the yellow dress Daisy wears or the green light that appears outside her home in East Egg's dock. Moreover, the line "'Cause you're a hard soul to save with an ocean in the way, but I'll get around it" symbolises the space between East Egg and Long Island Sound in West Egg where Gatsby awaits Daisy. An alternate interpretation would be that it is a reference to the Atlantic. It was Gatsby's service in WWI that originally separated Daisy and Gatsby.
This song is one of the songs of the soundtrack of the film 'The Great Gatsby' 2013.
"Over the Love" is, as many of Florence and the Machine's songs, a baroque pop ballad. It builds towards the end of the song and talks about a girl crying over the love for her boyfriend and the distance that separates them.
It is written from the perspective of Daisy, who is a lifelong crush of Gatsby's. Throughout the lyrics of the song we can see F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel symbols, like the yellow dress Daisy wears or the green light that appears outside her home in East Egg's dock. Moreover, the line "'Cause you're a hard soul to save with an ocean in the way, but I'll get around it" symbolises the space between East Egg and Long Island Sound in West Egg where Gatsby awaits Daisy. An alternate interpretation would be that it is a reference to the Atlantic. It was Gatsby's service in WWI that originally separated Daisy and Gatsby.