[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
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
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
About
Genius Annotation
“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 moon on the side of the wall… And turned all the lights off… We made the moon go on the ceiling and I had to lie on a bed and mutter.
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- 3.Choreomania
- 4.Delilah
- 5.Hunger
- 6.Shake It Out
- 7.King
- 8.Cosmic Love
- 10.Falling
- 11.My Love
- 13.Drumming Song
- 14.Ship to Wreck
- 15.Free
- 16.Third Eye
- 18.Big God
- 22.Dream Girl Evil
- 25.Seven Devils
- 26.Blinding
- 27.The Bomb
- 28.What Kind of Man
- 29.Never Let Me Go
- 30.Mermaids
- 32.June
- 34.Mother
- 35.The End of Love
- 36.Cassandra
- 37.Heartlines
Credits
Producer
Writers
Assistant Mixing Engineer
Mastering Engineer
Strings Arranger
Vocals
Programmer
Mixing Engineer
Recording Engineer
Guitar
Percussion
Organ
Drums
Viola
Cello
Violin
Harp
Recorded At
The Pool
Released on
July 3, 2009
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