I'm surprised at all the other interpretations that didn't come close to this. It's why she sings it in such an uplifting way, IMHO.
This is nothing depressing since the darkness here is blindness to love. She continues the verses as before that she is left in the dark. "Then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too" She realizes that he was similarly blinded by his love for her so she chooses to remain blinded to her love for him. Just as she is ready to move on he realizes his own feelings and she again hears his heart, his emotions. "I took the stars from our eyes, and then I made a mapĪnd knew that somehow I could find my way back"
Cosmic love lyrics full#
full of unsophisticated optimism" and so she is saying that she has given up and is taking those starry-eyes away and trying to pull herself back together finding her way back to some semblance of normality. "Starry-eyed" means "given to naive wishes, judgments, etc. "And in the dark, I can hear your heartbeatĮven so she is still blinded by her love for him and can see only him. This indicates that he appeared to share the same feelings, but pulled away unsure of himself. She doesn't say she doesn't hear the sound, she says she hears the sound and it stops. She is listening for the sound of his heart. I screamed aloud, as it tore through them, and now it's left me blind "A falling star fell from your heart and landed in my eyes To see no light beyond the light of one's beloved. My InterpretationThis song is about being blinded by love at first sight. "Twilight" "New Moon" and all those other books and movies are not even in the same realm as art. This song reaches so much further than teenybopper bullshit. 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. The song makes me want to get on the floor, pound my fists and scream at the top of my lungs and hurl violent tears into the sky, such is the depth of emotion in just four short minutes.
It's so big, so epic, so primal, so all consuming, it would be very easy for the voice to become lost amid the enormity of the music, but Florence grabs the music by the balls and just rips out the most heartwrenching tears and violent beauty. I don't think any other vocalist in the whole world could pull this song off. It has the cadence of a hawk trapped inside the cage built for a canary, such is the raw emotion that blasts out from the speakers. The rage, the madness, the grief that Florence is able to bring through is just devastating. Song.Simply the most beautiful and powerful song I have heard in my thirty-one year obsession and love affair with music. 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. 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. 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"). 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. IMO the song it's about a woman who falls in, apparently, unrequited love with a man. My InterpretationAbsolutely rip-roaring, mind-blowing song! Her voice is absolutely captivating.now I know why she called the album 'Lungs' - she's certainly got a good pair on her! I took the stars from our eyes, and then I made a mapĪnd knew that somehow I could find my way back No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilightĪnd in the dark, I can hear your heartbeatīut then it stopped, and I was in the darkness The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
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