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
“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 our vulnerable youth.
In a 2009 interview, Florence spoke of the recording process of the song:
We projected a massive...
[Verse 1]
It seems that I have been held in some dreaming state
A tourist in the waking world, never quite awake
No kiss, no gentle word could wake me from this slumber
Until I realise that it was you who held me under
[Pre-Chorus]
Felt it in my fist, in my feet, in the hollows of my eyelids
Shaking through my skull, through my spine and down through my ribs
[Chorus]
No more dreaming of the dead as if death itself was undone
No more calling like a crow for a boy, for a body in the garden
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love with the wrong world
[Verse 2]
And I could hear the thunder and see the lightning crack
And all around, the world was waking, I never could go back
'Cause all the walls of dreaming, they were torn wide open
And finally, it seemed that the spell was broken
[Pre-Chorus]
And all my bones began to shake, my eyes flew open
And all my bones began to shake, my eyes flew open
[Chorus]
No more dreaming of the dead as if death itself was undone
No more calling like a crow for a boy, for a body in the garden
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love with the wrong world
[Bridge]
Snow White is stitching up your circuit-boards
Synapse slipping through the hidden door
Snow White is stitching up your circuit-board
[Chorus]
No more dreaming of the dead as if death itself was undone
No more calling like a crow for a boy, for a body in the garden
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love with the wrong world
[Outro]
Snow White's stitching up your circuit-boards
Synapse slipping through the hidden door
Snow White's stitching up your circuit-board
Synapse slipping through the hidden door
Blinding was written by Paul Epworth & Florence Welch.
Blinding was produced by Paul Epworth.
Florence + the Machine released Blinding on Fri Jul 03 2009.