SongMeanings Interpretations
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Florence + the Machine - Dog Days Are Over Lyrics & Meanings
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Dog Days Are Over Lyrics & Meanings: Happiness, hit her like a train on a track / Coming towards her, stuck still no turning back / She hid around corners and she hid under beds / She killed it with kisses and from it she fled / With every bubble she sank with a drink / And washed it away down the kitchen sink / / The dog days are over / The dog days are done / The horses are coming so you better run / / Run fast for your mother run fast for your father / Run for your children for your sisters and brothers / Leave all your love and your longing behind you / Can't carry it with you if you want to survive / / The dog days are over / The dog days are done / Can't you hear the horses / 'Cause here they come / / And I never wanted anything from you / Except everything you had / And what was left after that too, oh / / Happiness hit her like a bullet in the back / Struck from a great height / By some man who should know better than that / / The dog days are over / The dog days are done / Can you hear the hors
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Florence + the Machine - Dog Days Are Over [Demo Version] Lyrics & Meanings
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Dog Days Are Over [Demo Version] Lyrics & Meanings: Happiness hit her like a train on a track / Coming towards her, stuck, still no turning back / She hid around corners and she hid under beds / She killed it with kisses, and from it she fled / With every bubble she sank with a drink / And washed it away down the kitchen sink / / The dog days are over / The dog days are done / The horses are coming / So you better run / / Run fast for your mother, run fast for your father / Run for your children, for your sisters and brothers / Leave all your love and your longing behind / You can't carry it with you if you want to survive / / The dog days are over / The dog days are done / Can you hear the horses? / 'Cause here they come / / And I never wanted anything from you / Except everything you had / And what was left after that too, oh / / Happiness hit her like a bullet in the back / Struck from a great height / By someone who should know better than that / / The dog days are over / The dog days are done / Can
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Florence + the Machine - Conductor Lyrics & Meanings
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Conductor Lyrics & Meanings: I tried to control my shaking / With just one sound / I tried to warm the ocean / By writing it down / I tried to tame my nightmare / Line by line / If I write a song about you / Does that make you mine? / / The conductor caught in slow motion / The orchestra plays on / Over and over, the same motion / This work is never done / / The only thing that's certain / Is your indecision / I guess it must be working / Cause you hit me with such precision / Now the strings are breaking / Their fingers run with blood / But they keep on playing / The cycle never stops / / Who's in control? / Who's playing who? / / She wants to be amongst them / Conducting them too / She knows the song won't save her / But what else can she do? / She weeps just like a willow / She's playing for you / She's fragile and she's ferocious / As the current flows through / / She's a conductor caught in slow motion / The orchestra plays loud / Over and over, the same motion / This work is never done / / Now he
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Florence + the Machine - Jenny of Oldstones Lyrics & Meanings
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Jenny of Oldstones Lyrics & Meanings: [Intro] / High in the halls of the kings who are gone / Jenny would dance with her ghosts / The ones she had lost and the ones she had found / And the ones who had loved her the most / / [Verse 1] / The ones who'd been gone for so very long / She couldn't remember their names / They spun her around on the damp old stone / Spun away all her sorrow and pain / / [Chorus] / And she never wanted to leave, never wanted to leave / Never wanted to leave, never wanted to leave / / [Verse 2] / They danced through the day / And into the night through the snow that swept through the hall / From winter to summer and winter again / 'Til the walls did crumble and fall / / [Chorus] / And she never wanted to leave, never wanted to leave / Never wanted to leave, never wanted to leave / And she never wanted to leave, never wanted to leave / Never wanted to leave, never wanted to leave / / [Outro] / High in the halls of the kings who are gone / Jenny would dance with her ghosts / The on
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Florence + the Machine - South London Forever Lyrics & Meanings
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South London Forever Lyrics & Meanings: And I go home alone / I drive past the place that I was born / And the places that I used to drink / Young and drunk and stumbling in the street / Outside the Joiners Arms like foals unsteady on their feet / With the art students and the boys in bands / High [?] and holding hands with someone that I just met / / I thought it doesn't get better than this / Better than this / There can be nothing better than this / Better than this / And we climbed onto the roof, the museum / And someone made love in the glass / And I'd forgot my name / And the way back to my mother's house / With your black cool eyes and your bitten lips / The world is at your fingertips / It doesn't get better than this / What else could be better than this? / / Oh, don't you know I have seen / I have seen the fields aflame / And everything I ever did / Was just another way to scream your name / / Over and over and over and over again / Over and over and over and over again / / And we're just childr
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Florence + the Machine - King Lyrics & Meanings
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King Lyrics & Meanings: We argue in the kitchen about whether to have children / About the world ending and the scale of my ambition / And how much is art really worth? / The very thing you're best at / Is the thing that hurts the most / But you need your rotten heart / Your dazzling pain like diamond rings / You need to go to war to find material to sing / / I am no mother / I am no bride / I am king / / I need my golden crown of sorrow / My bloody sword to swing / My empty halls to echo with grand self-mythology / / I am no mother / I am no bride / I am king / / I am no mother / I am no bride / I am king / / But a woman is a changeling / Always shifting shape / Just when you think you have it figured out / Something new begins to take / What strange claws are these / Scratching at my skin? / I never knew my killer would be coming from within / / I am no mother / I am no bride / I am king / / I am no mother / I am no bride / I am king / / I need my golden crown of sorrow / My bloody sword to swing /
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Florence + the Machine - Morning Elvis Lyrics & Meanings
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Morning Elvis Lyrics & Meanings: When they dressed me and they put me on a plane to Memphis, well / I never got to see Elvis / I just sweated it out in a hotel room / But I think the king would have understood / Why I never made it to Graceland / The bathroom towels were cool against my head / I pressed my forehead to the floor and prayed for a trapdoor / I've been here many times before / But I've never made it to Graceland / / And if I make it to the mornin' / I should've come with a warnin' / And if I make it to the stage / I'll show you what it means / To be sad / / Well, pick me up in New Orleans / Pinned in a bathroom stall / Pick me up above my body / Press my corpse against the wall / I told the band to leave without me / I'll get the next flight / And I'll see you all with Elvis / If I don't survive the night / / If I make it to the mornin' / I should've come with a warnin' / And if I make it to the stage / I'll show you what it means / To be sad / / And if they'd ever tore us where I quit / It's
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Florence + the Machine - Call Me Cruella Lyrics & Meanings
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Call Me Cruella Lyrics & Meanings: Cruella de Vil, Cruella de Vil / She's born to be bad, so run for the hills / Cruella de Vil, Cruella de Vil / The fear on your face, it gives me the thrill / / Who wants to be nice? / Who wants to be tame? / All of your good guys, they all seem the same / / Original, criminal, dressed to kill / Just call me Cruella de Vil / / Call me crazy, call me insane / But you're stuck in the past / And I'm ahead of the game / / A life lived in penance / It just seems a waste / And the devil has much better taste / / And I tried to be sweet / I tried to be kind / But I feel much better now that I'm / Out of my mind... / / Well, there's always a line to the gates of hell / But I go right to the front 'cause I dress this well / Rip it up, leave it all in tatters / Beauty is the only thing that matters / / The fabric of your little world is torn / Embrace the darkness / And be reborn / / Cruella de Vil, Cruella de Vil / The fear on your face, it gives me the thrill
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Florence + the Machine - I Will Be Lyrics & Meanings
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I Will Be Lyrics & Meanings: Oh / I will be / I will be / I will be / I will be / Silence will not cover me / / I will be / I will be / / Silence will not cover me / / I will be / I will be / I will be / I will be / / And silence will not cover me / And silence will not cover me / / I will be / I will be / / And silence will not cover me / / I will be / I will be / / And silence will not cover me / / I will be / I will be / I will be / I will be / / And silence will not cover me / And silence will not cover me / / I will be / I will be / I will be / I will be
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Florence + the Machine - Paper Massacre Lyrics & Meanings
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Paper Massacre Lyrics & Meanings: We’re paper dolls all joined together, / Walking arm in arm, / But we fall like feathers, / Shaken by the storm. / Everybody started tearing up and they pulled apart, / Everyone had broken arms and legs and broken hearts. / Everybody started tearing up and they pulled apart, / Everyone had broken arms and legs and broken hearts, / Like paper chains.
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Florence + the Machine - Galaxy of the Lost Lyrics & Meanings
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Galaxy of the Lost Lyrics & Meanings: Hate to think / what would happen if I started to drink like you / maybe I would / loosen up / so pour me another gin. / / Guzzle down / my neck will burn / and as we kiss / and I'm sick in your mouth / I know you want more / Lick my open wounds / and add some ice / and choke on my sick vice / Oh God, the lights are on. / / Trapped in bed / as the poison slowly creeps / and stops me dead. / I should have known / better than to cave / into such fantasies. / / Guzzle down / my neck will burn / and as we kiss / and I'm sick in your mouth / I know you want more / Lick my open wounds / and add some ice / and choke on my sick vice / Oh God, the lights are on. / / I feel better / now I've seen you / but deep inside / my bones feel like timber / And I am shaking at the tension / And I will shudder at the mention.
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Florence + the Machine - Lungs Lyrics & Meanings
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Lungs Lyrics & Meanings: Between two lungs it was released / The breath that captured me / The sigh that blew me forward / / Cause it was trapped / Trapped between two lungs / It was trapped between two lungs / It was trapped between two lungs / / And my running feet could fly / Each breath screaming /
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Florence + the Machine - Choreomania Lyrics & Meanings
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Choreomania Lyrics & Meanings: And I am freaking out in the middle of the street / With the complete conviction of someone who's never had anything actually really bad happen to them / But I am committed now to the feeling / / I don't know how it started / Don't know how to stop it / Suddenly, I'm dancin' / To imaginary music / / Something's coming, so out of breath / I just kept spinnin' and I danced myself to death / Something's coming, so out of breath / I just kept spinnin' and I danced myself to death / / And this is the end / And I'm thinking about her / Driving around in the backseat of the car / I'll be your demon daddy / And do they speak to you? / 'Cause they speak to me too / The pressure and the panic / You push your body through / / Something's coming, so out of breath / I just kept spinnin' and I danced myself to death / Something's coming, so out of breath / I just kept spinnin' and I danced myself to death / / You said that rock and roll is dead / But is that just because it has not been
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Florence + the Machine - Jackson (Johnny Cash cover) Lyrics & Meanings
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Jackson (Johnny Cash cover) Lyrics & Meanings: We got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout / We've been talking about Jackson, ever since the fire went out / I'm going to Jackson, I'm going to mess around / Yeah, I'm going to Jackson / Look out Jackson town / / Well, go on down to Jackson; go ahead and wreck your health / Go play your hand you big-talking man, make a big fool of yourself / Yeah, go to Jackson; go comb your hair! / Honey, I'm going to snowball Jackson / See if I care / / When I breeze into that city, people gonna stoop and bow (Ha!) / All them women going to make me, teach them what they don't know how / I'm going to Jackson, you turn loose my coat / Because I'm going to Jackson / Goodbye, that's all she wrote / / But they'll laugh at you in Jackson, and I'll be dancing on a Pony Keg / They'll lead you around town like a scalded hound / With your tail tucked between your legs / Yeah, go to Jackson, you big-talking man / And I'll be waiting in Jackson, behind my Jaypan Fan / / W
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