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
In “You Can Have It All”, Florence takes a powerful stance against the sentiment that female musicians can be everything – a mother, a musician, a partner. Much of these themes reiterate the message conveyed in her earlier song “King”.
Talking to Südddeutsche, Florence stated:
In England and Ameri...
[Verse 1]
I sit in the salt water, call in a vision of my daughter
Light a candle, place my grief upon the altar
Bird in my hands, a flower, a song
I used to think I knew what sadness was
I was wrong
[Verse 2]
A piece of flesh, a million pounds
Am I a woman now?
The crescent moon, an apple sliced
Fig in the sky
The air smells of fruit and smoke
The season is ripe
I stay in the house, move the furniture about
Try and control what I can
And feel the world slip through my hand
[Chorus]
You can have it all
You can have it all
[Bridge]
Dug a hole in the garden and buried a scream
And from it grew a bright red tree
Shining with jagged lеaves
And when the wind blows, you can hеar it
Dug a hole in the garden and buried a scream
And from it grew a bright red tree
Shining with jagged leaves
And when the wind blows, you can hear it
[Chorus]
You can have it all
You can have it all
[Outro]
(You can have it all)
A piece of flesh, a million pounds
Am I a woman now?
(You can have it all)
Tree grows tall, can't cut me down
Am I a woman now?
You Can Have It All was written by Florence Welch & Mark Bowen.
You Can Have It All was produced by Aaron Dessner & Mark Bowen & Florence Welch.
Florence + the Machine released You Can Have It All on Fri Oct 31 2025.
That is a like a ‘fuck you’ to that phrase. That is an absolute ‘fuck you’ to that phrase. It was this phrase that was sort of told to women like, ‘You can have it all,’ like the career, the family but actually that was still working within structures that sort of weren’t built for you. So you just...