Florence Welch > Quotes

“Sometimes I wish for falling
Wish for the release
Wish for falling through the air
To give me some relief
Because falling's not the problem
When I'm falling I'm in peace
It's only when I hit the ground
It causes all the grief”
― Florence Welch

“I’m sorry you couldn’t find me. I have been in the woods. I put myself there because I couldn’t be good. I have been running with foxes and running with crows and I have found myself a home where no one goes.”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“Sometimes I find that music is so much more attractive than love. I don’t know… It’s like some kind of euphoria, that love can’t bring to you.”
― Florence Welch

“It's hard to dance with the Devil on your back, So shake him off.”
― Florence Welch

“A falling star fell from your heart and landed in my eyes.
I screamed aloud, as it tore through them, and now it's left me blind.

The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out.
You left me in the dark.
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight.
In the shadow of your heart.

And in the dark, I can hear your heartbeat.
I tried to find the sound.
But then it stopped, and I was in the darkness,
So darkness I became.


I took the stars from my eyes, and then I made a map.
And knew that somehow I could find my way back.
Then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too.
So I stayed in the darkness with you.”
― Florence Welch Isabella Summers

“Maybe I’ve always been more comfortable in chaos.”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It’s such a funny, grandiose idea”
― Florence Welch

“I've fallen out of favour
And I've fallen from grace
Fallen out of trees
And I've fallen on my face
Fallen out of taxis
Out of windows too
Fell in your opinion
When I fell in love with you”
― Florence Welch

“You took my heart and you held it in your mouth
And, with a word all my love came rushing out
And, every whisper, it's the worst, emptied out by a single word
There is a hollow in me now...

And
Every whisper, every sigh
Eats away at this heart of mine
And there is a hollow in me now.

So I put my faith in something unknown
I'm living on such sweet nothing
But I'm trying to hope with nothing to hold
I'm living on such sweet nothing.”
― Florence Welch Calvin Harris

“Songs can be incredibly prophetic, like subconscious warnings or messages to myself, but I often don't know what I'm trying to say till years later. Or a prediction comes true and I couldn't do anything to stop it, so it seems like a kind of useless magic.”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“I was a heavy heart to carry
My beloved was weighed down
My arms around his neck
My fingers laced to crown.
I was a heavy heart to carry
My feet dragged across ground
And he took me to the river
Where he slowly let me drown
My love has concrete feet
My love's an iron ball
Wrapped around your ankles
Over the waterfall”
― Florence Welch

“I don't want your future
I don't need your past
One bright moment
Is all I ask”
― Florence Welch

“The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
You left me in the dark
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart”
― Florence Welch

“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 have to breathe
Not have to think
But you can’t live on love
And salt water’s no drink
We're dying of thirst so we feast on each other
The sea is still our violent mother
The blood round here pours down like water
Each wave a lamb lead to the slaughter
And like children that she just can’t teach
We break, and break, and break
And break ourselves upon the beach- Body of Water”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“Hands up if you’re ready to do something you’ll regret this weekend. Go forth! You have my blessing.”
― Florence Welch

“There's a drumming noise inside my head
That starts when you're around
I swear that you could hear it
It makes such an almighty sound
There's a drumming noise inside my head
That throws me to the ground
I swear that you could hear it
It makes such an almighty sound
Louder than sirens
Louder than bells
Sweeter than heaven
And hotter than hell”
― Florence Welch

“I like people who've seen some darkness
The haunted ones.
I like people who don't claim to know what love is
The honest ones.”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“Whispering like it's a secret, only to condemn the one who hears it, with a heavy heart.”
― Florence Welch and Paul Epworth

“I try to maintain a healthy dose of daydreaming to remain sane.”
― Florence Welch

“But you have to satisfy the monster. The monster has loved you for longer than anyone else.”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“Then I heard your voice as clear as day,
And you told me I should concentrate,
It was all so strange,
And so surreal,
That a ghost should be so practical.
Only if for a night

And the only solution was to stand and fight,
And my body was bruised and
I was set alight,
But you came over me like some holy rite,
And although I was burning,
You're the only light
Only if for a night”
― Florence Welch

“ it's not like you lose... you just don't.. win.”
― Florence Welch

“it's always darkness before the dawn”
― Florence Welch

“I guess I won't write poetry
I'll just stare at my phone for fucking eternity”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“I make songs to tie people to me
With a ribbon of fantasy around their necks
Such a beautiful bow.
That I hold in my fist
And I will not let go.”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“Be careful of the curse that falls on young lovers
Starts so soft and sweet and turns them to hunters
A man who's pure of heart and says his prayers by night
May still become a wolf when the autumn moon is bright

If you could only see the beast you've made of me
I held it in but now it seems you've set it running free
The saints can't help me now, the ropes have been unbound
I hunt for you with bloody feet across the hallow'd ground”
― Florence Welch

“Holy water cannot help you now
A thousand armies couldn’t keep me out
See, I’ve come to burn your kingdom down
I’ve come to smoke you out

Seven devils all around you
Seven devils in my house
See, I was dead when I woke up this morning,
And I’ll be dead before the day is done

And now all your love will be exorcised
And we will find your sayings to be paradox
And it’s an even sum
It’s a symphony
It’s a battle cry

They can keep me alive
‘Til I tear the walls
‘Til I slave you heart
And they take your soul
And what have we done?”
― Florence Welch

“I wish to remain nameless
And live without shame
'Cause what's in a name, Oh
I still remain the same”
― Florence Welch

“So you start to take pieces of your own life.

And somewhat selfishly
Other people's lives
And feed them to the song
At what cost
This wondrous creature
That becomes more precious to you
Than the people that you took from

How awful

To make human sacrifices
A late night conversation
A private thought
All placed upon the altar

But you have to satisfy the monster
The monster has loved you for longer
Than anyone else.”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“This is a song for a scribbled out name
And my love keeps writing again and again
This is a song for a scribbled out name
And my love keeps writing again and again
And again and again and again and again and again and again...”
― Florence Welch