Friday, August 5, 2011

cosmic love

Song of the day.  This is by far one of my favorite songs.  I love love love Florence + the Machine.  Seeing them live was breathtaking.  Florence does an amazing job and can really sing.  Plus they have a damn harp player in their band!  So awesome! 
Anyway, these lyrics touch me on a whole other level.  So deep.  So beautiful.  So good, you better read them: 

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 my 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 


There can be many interpretations of the lyrics for people, but for me this is a song about a woman who falls in love with someone who only lets her have a selection of his heart. She's left in the darkness, the shadows of his heart. She doesn't have all of him.  It sounds as if he doesn't have it to give or he doesn't know how to give it. Then she goes another route to find herself again and to move on.  In the end she realizes he's in the "darkness" as well so she decides to stay with him even if she only gets a selection or piece of him... that's all she needs, as long as she is with him.  Romantic and beautiful, haha. 

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