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Florence + the Machine – Falling
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[Verse 1] / I've fallen out of favor / And I've fallen from grace / Fallen out of trees / And I've fallen on my face / Fallen out of taxis / Out of windows too / Fell in your
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Florence + the Machine – Long & Lost
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“Long & Lost” is a track off of Florence + the Machine’s How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful.
After being slighted in the previous song, Florence considers returning to her lover
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Florence + the Machine – Blinding
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“Blinding” is track 12 on Florence + The Machine’s multi-platinum debut album “Lungs”. Florence uses fairytale flights of fantasy to tell her listeners about the love and pain in
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Florence + the Machine – Breaking Down
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The upbeat piano melody of “Breaking Down” is a juxtaposition against the sorrowful whispered vocals, which speak of Florence’s depression as a friend greeting her in the dead of
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Florence + the Machine – Grace
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Talking to Annie Mac, Florence describes how this song is dedicated to her sister Grace. For her whole life, Florence has always felt like the little sister, despite being older
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Florence + the Machine – Howl
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Howl is the fourth track from Florence + The Machine’s debut album, Lungs. The song uses metaphors from the Gothic horror to talk about the feelings and sensations provided by love
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Taylor Swift (Ft. Florence + the Machine) – Florida!!!
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The Tampa, Florida shows were the first Eras Tour stop after Swift’s break up with longtime boyfriend Joe Alwyn was widely publicized. The song frames Florida as an escape from
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Florence + the Machine – Hunger
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The lead single from High As Hope, “Hunger” follows “Sky Full of Song” and sees Florence exploring her vulnerability and search for love whilst comparing her teenage experience to
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Florence + the Machine – Mermaids
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“Mermaids” is the second single from Florence + the Machine in 2023. The song was initially cut from Dance Fever but was released as part of the Complete Edition on 21st April 2023
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Florence + the Machine – Dog Days Are Over
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“Dog Days Are Over” is a single off of Lungs, and is considered the band’s first big hit in both the US and the UK.
This harp-based track is about suddenly finding happiness, and
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Florence + the Machine – Big God
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Released prior to High As Hope, though not as an official single, “Big God” is about “obviously, an unfillable hole in the soul, but mainly about someone not replying to my text".
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Florence + the Machine – Hiding
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[Verse 1] / I think you hide / When all the world's asleep and tired / You cry a little, so do I, so do I / I think you hide / And you don't have to tell me why / You cry a little
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Florence + the Machine – Heartlines
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With encouraging and hopeful lyrics, “Heartlines” comes right before “Spectrum”, making the duo a silver lining combo in the middle of a sorrowful album, as Florence Welch stated
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Florence + the Machine – Caught
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[Verse 1] / It's the hardest thing I've ever had to do / To try and keep from calling you / Well, can my dreams keep coming true? / How can they? / 'Cause when I sleep, I never
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Florence + the Machine – King
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“King” is the first single from Florence + the Machine’s fifth studio album, Dance Fever. The lyrics depict Florence Welch struggling with the desire of going on with her a career
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Florence + the Machine – Mother
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This is the 11th, and closing track (for the standard edition), of Florence + The Machine’s 2015 studio effort, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful.
The song was produced solely by
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Florence + the Machine – June
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“June” was the first song Florence wrote for High as Hope, going straight from touring her last album (How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful) into the studio. Florence credits this song
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Florence + the Machine – Cosmic Love
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“Cosmic Love” has an ethereal yet somber sound, connoting a seemingly light-hearted approach to a melancholy subject. Welch told The Sunday Times that the song illustrates how
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Florence + the Machine – Shake It Out
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The 1st official single from Florence and the Machine’s 2nd album Ceremonials.
Voted as “2012 Track of the Year” by NME magazine, the song was favourably received. The uplifting
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Florence + the Machine – Hurricane Drunk
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This track with gospel-influenced layers of sound is about the emotions that you feel when you have been heartbroken. The song, like many on Lungs, was written while Florence Welch
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Florence + the Machine – Stand By Me
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This cover of the Ben E. King classic serves as the main theme of the RPG video game Final Fantasy XV.
In the announcement trailer, Florence described “Stand By Me” as “one of the
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Florence + the Machine – Back in Town
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Back In Town is a “love song to New York”; the last song that Florence wrote before having to return to the UK after starting recording for Dance Fever in New York in March 2019.
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Florence + the Machine – Third Eye
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In “Third Eye”, Florence encourages a fellow friend to come out of their shell and learn to love again, only to reveal that she’s going through the same problems also.
They
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Florence + the Machine – Moderation
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“Moderation” is Florence + The Machine’s first release after the band’s fourth studio album High as Hope. The song was premiered live on 12 January, 2019 at the RAC Arena in Perth
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Florence + the Machine – Prayer Factory
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[Verse] / All the things that I ran from / I now bring as close to me as I can / Gripping hotel sheets with gritted teeth / My montage of lost things / My shining trinkets of grief
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Florence + the Machine – Wish That You Were Here
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In “Wish That You Were Here”, Florence Welch finds that, counter to her expectation, she yearns for companionship. This reflects the themes of family in the film, Miss Peregrine’s
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Florence + the Machine – Choreomania
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“Choreomania” was one of the first songs written for Dance Fever, and could be seen as the record’s title track, since it was named after a dancing plague that took place in Europe
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Florence + the Machine – Spectrum (Say My Name)
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Florence’s “Spectrum” addresses the spectrum of feelings and emotions that are felt in a relationship, the different colors of the spectrum that uniquely identify with different
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Florence + the Machine – Sky Full of Song
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“Sky Full Of Song” is the first track to be taken from Florence + the Machine’s fourth studio album, High As Hope. It will be included on a limited 7" vinyl single for Record Store
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Florence + the Machine – Never Let Me Go
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Florence Welch and Paul Epworth wrote this R&B-tinged piano ballad. The band first premiered the song during a concert at New York’s Creators Project on 15 October 2011.
Talking
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Florence + the Machine – Call Me Cruella
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“Call Me Cruella” is a song created for the 2021 Disney movie Cruella. The track seems to pick up where the original film’s title song, Cruella De Vil, left off, with the intro
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Florence + the Machine – Breath of Life
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“Breath of Life” was written and recorded by Florence and the Machine for the 2012 film, Snow White and the Huntsman. Florence Welch and Isabella Summers confirmed that the song is
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Florence + the Machine – Swimming
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[Verse 1] / Your songs remind me of swimming / Which I forgot when I started to sink / Dragged further away from the shore / And deeper into the drink / [Verse 2] / Sat on the
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Florence + the Machine – Patricia
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“Patricia” is the seventh track from the Florence + the Machine album, High As Hope. It was written in homage to the American artist, Patti Smith, whom Welch calls her “North Star
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Florence + the Machine – Leave My Body
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Ceremonials comes to its conclusion on the somber track which is “Leave My Body”. With a spiritual, ethereal instrumental, the song ends with a ghosting sound, sonically
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Florence + the Machine – Conductor
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“Conductor” is a song from the Deluxe edition of Florence and the Machine’s third album, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful. The song describes a relationship with a lover using
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Florence + the Machine – Dream Girl Evil
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“Dream Girl Evil” is a satirical response to the expectations society place upon women, and to Florence being seen as both an angel and a devil, when she feels a great
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Florence + the Machine – St. Jude
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“St. Jude” is a somber, low-key track. It relates both the patron saint of lost causes and the 2013 British storm of the same name as Florence contemplates her failing relationship
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Florence + the Machine – No Choir
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“No Choir” is a stripped, short ballad that closes Florence + The Machine’s fourth studio album High as Hope.
Florence breaks the fourth wall and sings about the relationship
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Florence + the Machine – Various Storms & Saints
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“Various Storms & Saints” occupies the middle of Florence + the Machine’s How Big How Blue How Beautiful, as Florence hits a brooding low.
Using a storm as a metaphor for her
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Florence + the Machine – Free
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Five days before being released as Dance Fever’s fourth single, Florence + the Machine debuted “Free,” along with “Girls Against God,” live during their intimate show at Newcastle’
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