Florence + the Machine
Florence + the Machine
Florence + the Machine
Florence + the Machine
Florence + the Machine
Florence + the Machine
Florence + the Machine
Florence + the Machine
Florence + the Machine
Florence + the Machine
Florence + the Machine
Florence + the Machine
Florence + the Machine
Florence + the Machine
Florence + the Machine
Florence + the Machine
“Everybody Scream” depicts Florence Welch apparently singing to her fans from the place where she feels most comfortable. In an interview with triple j, Welch described developing the track with cowriter Mitski as an exploration of “intimacy with the stage” and what is drawing her back to performanc...
[Verse 1]
Get on the stage (Dance)
And I call her (Sing) by her first name (Turn)
Try to stay away (Move)
But I always meet (Shake) her back at this place (Scream)
She gives me everything (Love), I feel no pain
I break down (Jump), get up, and do it all again
Because it's never enough (Live)
And she makes me feel loved (Breathe)
I could come here (Go) and scream as loud as I want (Scream)
[Pre-Chorus]
Everybody dance (Ah)
Everybody sing (Ah)
Everybody move (Ah)
Everybody scream
[Chorus]
Here, I don't have to be quiet
Here, I don't have to be kind
Extraordinary and normal all at the same time
But look at me run myself ragged
Blood on the stage
But how can I leave you when you're screaming my name?
Screaming my name
[Verse 2]
I will come for you in the evening, ragged and reeling
Shaking my gold like a tambourine
A bouquet of brambles, all twisted and tangled
I'll make you sing for me, I'll make you scream
[Pre-Chorus]
Everybody dance (Ah)
Everybody sing (Ah)
Everybody move (Ah)
Everybody scream
[Chorus]
Here, I can take up the whole of the sky
Unfurling, becoming my full size
And look at me burst through the ceiling
Aren't you so glad you came?
Breathless and begging and screaming my name
Screaming my name
[Bridge]
Everybody jump
Everybody sing
Everybody move
Everybody scream
Everybody shake
Put down your screen
Everybody up
Everybody scream
[Outro]
The witchcraft, the medicine, the spells and the injections
The harvest, the needle protect me from evil
The magic and the misery, madness and the mystery
Oh, what has it done to me?
Everybody scream
Everybody Scream was written by Florence Welch & Mitski & Mark Bowen.
Everybody Scream was produced by Florence Welch & Aaron Dessner & Mark Bowen & James Ford.
Florence + the Machine released Everybody Scream on Wed Aug 20 2025.
In an interview with Zane Lowe, Florence Welch commented on the sonic influences and inspirtations behind “Everybody Scream”:
I think was I was looking for was an ominous feeling but that also has clarity and beauty and those incredible soaring choruses, like Adele and incredible ballads. We were l...
In an interview with Zane Lowe, Florence Welch revealed that the title “Everybody Scream” actually came before the song itself. She explained that she simply wanted a track name that rhymed with Florence + the Machine and thought it would be fun to turn that into both a song and album title:
I was...
Florence Welch explained to Zane Lowe that the song began with Mark Bowen of IDLES, who helped turn a title into a track.
I just had ‘Florence + the Machine, Everybody Scream,’ and that was it. Bowen came in and was like, ‘That looked like a title track to me’. He had this glam rock thing that star...
Live on the Graham Norton Show
Live on Later... with Jools Holland
We drew inspiration from horror movies like Rosemary’s Baby and iconic Italian ‘60s and ‘70s horror films, such as Blood and Black Lace, which are known for their giallo style, where every woman who dies somehow ends up in her bra. [Laughs] And also an incredible documentary called Woodlands Dark an...