Florence + The Machine - Blog Posts
bucky egan // "free" by florence + the machine
the feeling comes so fast and i cannot control it i'm on fire, but i'm trying not to show it
Ok, ok, this might sound crazy but just listen.
Do you know a song “Bird song”
The moment I heard it I thought: holy, this song is perfect for Steven and Steven is perfect for this song!
https://youtu.be/Jno8dow48NY
SPOILER ALERT, THE BUTTER IS SPOILED
When Steven shattered our favorite piece of... Jasper, he must have felt really guilty and a lot loooot more. But he surpassed all his thoughts and feelings about it trying to ignore it and find some kind of compromise with his emotions (guess, didnt work)
And he also was afraid of what everyone else will think about it.
***
“Well I didn't tell anyone, but a bird flew by
Saw what I'd done he set up a nest outside,
And he sang about what I'd become
He sang so loud, sang so clear
I was afraid all the neighbours would hear,
So I invited him in, just to reason with him
I promised I wouldn't do it again”
***
But those thoughts, guilt, anger, pain, they won’t go away no matter what. He keeps projecting those memories and thoughts that bother him, it’s like his mind or subconsciousness try to make him find help, make this pain go away, but he doesn’t listen to it.
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“But he sang louder and louder inside the house,
And no I couldn't get him out
So I trapped him under a cardboard box
Stood on it to make him stop
I picked up the bird and above the din I said
That's the last song you'll ever sing
Held him down, broke his neck,
Taught him a lesson he wouldn't forget”
***
Even when he says he’s fine, he pretends that nothing of this ever happened, but...
***
“But in my dreams began to creep
That old familiar tweet tweet tweet”
***
It did.. it really did happen, and he can’t deny it any longer.
Everything he tried to hide, to “shove under the bed” and pretend it doesn’t exist. It all now hits him at once, making him realize how messed up is a situation he’s in. He doesn’t know what to do. He can’t lie, can’t pretend, can’t “play a role”. So there’s only Steven. And for Steven there’s nothing but a monster he think he became.
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“I opened my mouth to scream and shout,
I waved my arms and flapped about
But I couldn't scream and I couldn't shout,
Couldn't scream and I couldn't shout
I opened my mouth to scream and shout
Waved my arms and flapped about
But I couldn't scream I couldn't shout,
The song was coming from my mouth”
***
And those heavy days in June when love became an act of defiance.
In those heavy days in June when love became an act of defiance.
Remembering the 49 angels on the 4th anniversary of the tragedy in Pulse Nightclub in Orlando.
Florence Welch is the most beautiful and talented person to ever grace this earth with her presence and no one can say otherwise
When Florence Welch said 'But you need your rotten heart, your dazzling pain like diamond rings, You need to go to war to find material to sing' I felt that
WAKE UP EVERYONE FLORENCE + THE MACHINE JUST DROPPED 5 MIN OF GENDER ENVY
the gap; shifting mediums of yearning, yearning for the lines unknown. aching to break from the restrains. beauty undefined; beauty untamed. the in-between
straining the bonds of because, opening the page of why. do you hear the call? the call to question, to discover, to create. fallen light of musical reign, star beloved; a glowing image of the space within. the in-between.
I’m on fire, but I’m trying not to show it. FLORENCE + THE MACHINE
Florence + Taylor
Two kings
Ruling the kingdom tonight (again)
🩷💜💙
We gotcha Taylor 🫶🫶🫶
Call the amateurs
Cut 'em from the team
Ditch the clowns, get the crown
Step into the daylight
And let it go
Let it go
Maybe I’ll see you in another life, if this one wasn’t enough.
Florence + the Machine / How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
Florence Welch photographed by Matthew Stone for Clash Magazine (2011).