Florence and the Machine – Queen Of Peace – Lyrics

Queen Of Peace by Florence and the Machine

[Verse 1]
Oh, the king
Gone mad within his suffering
Called out for relief
Someone cure him of his grief

His only son
Cut down, but the battle won
Oh, what is it worth
When all that's left is hurt?

[Pre-Chorus]
Like the stars chase the sun
Over the glowing hill, I will conquer
Blood is running deep
Some things never sleep

[Chorus]
Suddenly I'm overcome
Dissolving like the setting sun
Like a boat into oblivion
Cause you're driving me away
Now you have me on the run
The damage is already done
Come on, is this what you want?
Cause you're driving me away

[Verse 2]
Oh, the queen of peace
Always does her best to please
But is it any use?
Somebody's gotta lose

Like a long scream
Out there, always echoing
Oh, what is it worth?
All that's left is hurt

[Pre-Chorus]
Like the stars chase the sun
Over the glowing hill, I will conquer
Blood is running deep
Some things never sleep

[Chorus]
Suddenly I'm overcome
Dissolving like the setting sun
Like a boat into oblivion
Cause you're driving me away
Now you have me on the run
The damage is already done
Come on, is this what you want?
Cause you're driving me away

[Bridge]
And my love is no good
Against the fortress that it made of you
Blood is running deep
Sorrow that you keep

[Chorus]
Suddenly I'm overcome
Dissolving like the setting sun
Like a boat into oblivion
Cause you're driving me away
Now you have me on the run
The damage is already done
Come on, is this what you want?
Cause you're driving me away

[Spoken interlude - only in the Music Video]
To give yourself over to another body
That's all you want really
To be out of your own and consumed by another
To swim inside the skin of your lover
Not to have to breathe, not to have to think
But you can't live on love; salt water's no drink

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Florence and the Machine – Conductor – Lyrics

Conductor by Florence and the Machine

[Verse 1]
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?

[Chorus]
The conductor caught in slow motion
The orchestra plays on
Over and over; the same motion
This work is never done

[Verse 2]
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

[Bridge]
Who's in control?
Who's playing who?

[Verse 3]
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

[Chorus]
She's a conductor...

[Verse 4]
Now here comes the crescendo
The music starts to swell
And now it's so ecstatic
I know this part so well
And then it goes staccato
The notes were flying up
Higher and higher
But they never reach the top

[Bridge] x2

[Verse 5]
I am the orchestra
The conductor too
My heart is a concert hall
And I filled it with you

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Florence and the Machine – Which Witch – Lyrics

Which Witch by Florence and the Machine

It's my whole heart
Weighted and measured inside
And it's an old scar
Trying to bleach it out
And it's my whole heart
Deemed and delivered a crime
I'm on trial, waiting 'til the beat comes out
I'm on trial, waiting 'til the beat comes out

Who's a heretic now?
Am I making sense
How can you make it stick
Waiting 'til the beat comes out
Who's a heretic, child
Can you make it stick, now
And I'm on trial
Waiting 'til the beat comes out

Calm as the wind
He's on my mind
I'm getting tired of crawling all the way
And I've had enough
It's obvious
And I'm getting tired of crawling all the way
Crawling all the way
Crawling all the way

[2x]
I'm not beat up by this yet
You can't tell me to regret
Been in the dark since the day we met
Fire, help me to forget

And it's my whole heart
While tried and tested, it's mine
And it's my whole heart
Trying to reach it out
And it's my whole heart
Burned but not buried this time
I'm on trial, waiting 'til the beat comes out
I'm on trial, waiting 'til the beat comes out

Calm as the wind
He's on my mind
I'm getting tired of crawling all the way
And I've had enough
It's obvious
And I'm getting tired of crawling all the way

[2x]
I'm not beat up by this yet
You can't tell me to regret
Been in the dark since the day we met
Fire, help me to forget

Chained and shackled, oh
All that gravel, oh
It's a pity, oh

Never to return
But I never learn
It's a pity, oh

Chained and shackled, oh
All that gravel, oh
It's a pity, oh

Say I won't return
But I never learn
It's a pity, oh

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Florence and the Machine – Delilah – Lyrics

Delilah by Florence and the Machine

Drifting through the halls with the sunrise
Holding on for your call
Climbing up the walls for that flashing light
I can never let go
Cause I'm gonna be free and I'm gonna be fine
Holding on for your call
Cause I'm gonna be free and I'm gonna be fine
Maybe not tonight

Now the sun is up and I'm going blind
Holding on for your call
Another drink just to pass the time
I can never say no
Cause I'm gonna be free and I'm gonna be fine
Holding on for your call
Cause I'm gonna be free and I'm gonna be fine
But maybe not tonight

It's a different kind of danger
And the bells are ringing out
And I'm calling for my mother
As I pull the pillars down
It's a different kind of danger
And my feet are spinning around
Never knew I was a dancer
'till Delilah showed me how

Too fast for freedom
Sometimes it all falls down
These chains never leave me
I keep dragging them around

Now I'm dancing with Delilah and her vision is mine
Holding on for your call
A different kind of danger in the daylight
I can never let go
Took anything to cut you I can find
Holding on for your call
A different kind of a danger in the daylight
Can't you let me know

Now it's one more boy and it's one more line
Holding on for your call
Taking the pills just to pass the time
I can never say no
Cause I'm gonna be free and I'm gonna be fine
Holding on for your call
Cause I'm gonna be free and I'm gonna be fine
But maybe not tonight

It's a different kind of danger
And the bells are ringing out
And I'm calling for my mother
As I pull the pillars down
It's a different kind of danger
And my feet are spinning around
Never knew I was a dancer
'till Delilah showed me how

It's a different kind of danger
And the bells are ringing out
And I'm calling for my mother
As I pull the pillars down
It's a different kind of danger
And my feet are spinning around
Never knew I was a dancer
'till Delilah showed me how

Now I'm dancing with Delilah and her vision is mine
Holding on for your call
A different kind of danger in the daylight
I can never let go
Took anything to cut you I can find
Holding on for your call
A different kind of a danger in the daylight
Can't you let me know

Strung up, strung out for your love
Hang in, hung up, it's so rough
I'm rung and ringing out
Why can't you let me know

Strung up, strung out for your love
Hang in, hung up, it's so rough
I'm rung and ringing out
Why can't you let me know

It's a different kind of danger
And the bells are ringing out
And I'm calling for my mother
As I pull the pillars down
It's a different kind of danger
And my feet are spinning around
Never knew I was a dancer
'till Delilah showed me how

It's a different kind of danger
And the bells are ringing out
And I'm calling for my mother
As I pull the pillars down
It's a different kind of danger
And my feet are spinning around
Never knew I was a dancer
'till Delilah showed me how

Too fast for freedom
Sometimes it all falls down
These chains never leave me
I keep dragging them around

Too fast for freedom
Sometimes it all falls down
These chains never leave me
I keep dragging them around

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Florence and the Machine – As Far As I Could Get – Lyrics

As Far As I Could Get by Florence and the Machine

In the celestial vaults
I drew bedraggled breaths
Because I am unloved
I went as far as I could get
In the cedars like sparks
Wasting my goddamn time

Past the museum of death
And the mad man yelling answers
I sail on new beginnings
And psychics taking chances
In the cedars like sparks
Wasting my goddamn time

As far as I could get
I went as far as I could get
In the cedars like sparks
Wasting my goddamn time

Past the spires and the temple
Looking like a Disney castle
As far as I could get
Past the girls late for rehearsal
Oh, a pirate on the left
And Jesus on the right
And the Pacific sweeps through
Like a bird in flight

Oh, as far as I could get
I went as far as I could get
In the cedars like sparks
Wasting my goddamn time

Cause if I am unloved, I have unloved too
Cause if I am unloved, I have unloved too

As far as I could get
I went as far as I could get
I went as far as I could get
I went as far as I could get

Past the city and the cement
The cemetery standing still
Past the mountain and the monument
The houses and the hills
Past the signs and the sirens
The sinners and the saints
I went as far as I could get...

Past the hallowed and the horror
The humbled and agreed
I went as far as I could get
Cause if I am unloved, I have unloved too

As far as I could get
As far as I could get
As far as I could get
And I'm not far enough yet

I went as far as I could get
I went as far as I could get
I went as far as I could get
And I'm not far enough yet
And I'm not far enough yet
And I'm not far enough yet

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Florence and the Machine – Ship to Wreck – Lyrics

Ship to Wreck by Florence and the Machine

Don't touch the sleeping pills, they mess with my head,

Dredging the Great White Sharks, swimming in the bed,

Here comes a Killer Whale, to sing me to sleep,

Thrashing the covers off, it has me buy into teeth,

And oh my love remind me, what was it that I said?

I can't help but pull the earth around me, to make my bed

And oh my love remind me, what was it that I did?

Did I drink too much?

Am I losing touch?

Did I build this ship to wreck?

To wreck, to wreck, to wreck,

Did I build this ship to wreck?

What's with the long face? Do you want more?

Thousands of red-eyed mice, scratching at the door,

Don't let the curtain catch you, cos you've been here before,

The chair is in high land darling, you can't touch the floor,

And oh my love remind me, what was it that I said?

I can't help but pull the earth around me, to make my bed

And oh my love remind me, what was it that I did?

Did I drink too much?

Am I losing touch?

Did I build this ship to wreck?

To wreck, to wreck, to wreck,

Did I build this ship to wreck?

And good god, under star disguise we are lost,

And into the breach we got tossed,

And the water's coming in fast!

And oh my love remind me, what was it that I said?

I can't help but pull the earth around me, to make my bed

And oh my love remind me, what was it that I did?

Did I drink too much?

Am I losing touch?

Did I build this ship to wreck?

To wreck, to wreck, to wreck,

Did I build this ship to wreck?

To wreck, to wreck, to wreck,

Did I build this ship to wreck?

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Florence and the Machine – St Jude' – Lyrics

St Jude' by Florence and the Machine

Another conversation with no destination

Another battle, never won

And each side is a loser

So who cares if I have grown?

And I'm learning, so I'm leaving

And even thought I'm grieving

I'm trying to find the meaning

Let loss reveal it

Let loss reveal it

St. Jude, the patron saint of the lost causes

St. Jude, we were lost before she started

St. Jude, we lay in bed as she whipped around us

St. Jude, maybe I've always been more comfortable in chaos

And I was on the island and you were there too

But somehow through the storm I couldn't get to you

Oh, St. Jude, somehow she knew

And she came to give her blessing, while causing devastation

And I couldn't keep my mouth shut, I just had to mention

Grabbing your attention

St. Jude, the patron saint of the lost causes

St. Jude, we were lost before she started

St. Jude, we lay in bed as she whipped around us

St. Jude, maybe I've always been more comfortable in chaos

And I'm learning, so I'm leaving

And even thought I'm grieving

I'm trying to find the meaning

Let loss reveal it

Let loss reveal it

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Florence and the Machine – Mother – Lyrics

Mother by Florence and the Machine

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Florence and the Machine – How Big How Blue How Beautiful – Lyrics

How Big How Blue How Beautiful by Florence and the Machine

How Big

How Blue

How Beautiful

How Big

How Blue

How Beautiful

How Big

How Blue

How Beautiful

(Repeat)

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