Florence And The Machine Lyrics Quotes

Then I heard your voice as clear as day, And you told me I should concentrate, It was all so strange, And so surreal, That a ghost should be so practical. Only if for a night And the only solution was to stand and fight, And my body was bruised and I was set alight, But you came over me like some holy rite, And although I was burning, You're the only light Only if for a night

Concert pianists get to be quite chummy with dead composers. They can't help it. Classical music isn't just music. It's a personal diary. An uncensored confession in the dead of night. A baring of the soul. Take a modern example. Florence and the Machine? In the song 'Cosmic Love,' she catalogs the way in which the world has gone dark, distorting her, when she, a rather intense young woman, was left bereft by a love affair. 'The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out.

And all of my stumbling phrases never amounted to anything worth this feeling

You want a revelation"...That's Florence and the Machine, right?" Elise asks, seeing the lyrics scribbled on the cover. I don't answer. She's friends with Lindsay, or at least part of that clique I've seen them around school, their ponytails swishing in unison. Elise is one of the quiet ones. She didn't join their teasing in the locker room before, but she didn't stand up for me either. "She played a show here last month, but nobody else likes them, and my parents wouldn't let me go alone." Elise looks rueful. "I went," I tell her, remembering the night I snuck out for hours and nobody even noticed I was gone. "She played two hours, it was amazing.

I still like you the most You'll always be my favorite ghost