Florence and the Machine - Breaking Down Lyrics on Screen ! ( Ceremonials 2011 )

[dellabelly1]

It should be "Even when I was a child, I've always known there was something to be 'frightened of"

[dellabelly1]

I think this song's about depression. When you can feel yourself falling back into that hole again

[XdessiqueenX]

This song reminds me of sleep paralysis 

[jKRAMER001]

Hey check out my cover of this on my page! :)

[BScAdv]

Sounds like Talking Heads' "This Must be the Place (Naive Melody)". Also reminds me a lot of Arcade Fire and Broken Social Scene.

[Vlakpage]

I don't even know what breaking dawn is, looks like some misspell

[ilovewackojacko891]

well sorry to bust ur bubble guys but...

florence and the machine did the soundtrack for the twilight saga: eclipse.

so it actually is part of twilight...

please don't hurt me... :(

[0314bacontacos]

@ilovewackojacko891 lol i love the last line

i cant stop laughing xDD

[scumthecourtfool]

So this song is about Slenderman's girlfriend, right?

[MyCrazzySoxRoxUrSox]

is there any violins in this? Like at the end?

[Wellygoggs13]

@MyCrazzySoxRoxUrSox yes :P

[KHnaruto29]

@MyCrazzySoxRoxUrSox yeah Florence has a strings section in her band. They're playing in and out throughout the entire song.

[Kuntibaws]

lyrics are wrong... dunno if anyone else has pointed this out cos i cbf reading 6 pages of comments... "all alone even when I was a child I've always known there was something to be frightened of and I can see it coming from the edge of the room..."

[VeroArc119]

listen to the acoustic version. its even amazing

[5FLASH2009]

I heard this song on the radio today! ♥

[DestroySystem]

reminds me Pixies - Velouria

[stardollcandy]

She is Florence Welch not Kate Bush

[z24lm]

@stardollcandy You probably should know who she is since this song sounds exactly like her. Dickwad.

[stardollcandy]

@z24lm:I know.I just said she is Florence Welch, dumbass.

[z24lm]

@stardollcandy cool story, dumbass ;)

[z24lm]

Kate Bush

[7LAIL]

1:24 should be "I've always known / There was something to be frightened of.... And I can see you... etc."

[astridishere]

Ahem. David Bowie. Very david bowie

[MsKp92]

@astridishere you are so right! I've been beating my brains out trying to figure out what it reminded me of, and it is definitely david bowie!

[neontrees3400]

i already have ceremonials!!  so happy!

[LedZeppTangerine]

@Aelthas89 - lol hahaha, this sound is nothing like the sound of the strings on which you pass your fingers:)

[indifferentsmiley]

breaking down must be a good thing :D

[IPodFreak908]

This isnt her voice. Goodbye.

[Qpenguin98]

@IPodFreak908 yes it is they just had to change it the slightest so they wouldnt get banned

[Ankolover19]

@IPodFreak908 You know people's voices don't ALWAYS sound 100% the same all the time. This is still her, still sounds like her. She still sounds amazing

[IPodFreak908]

@Ankolover19 That's not what i meant. They tweaked her voice so it wouldn't be taken down, i personally don't like the way she sounds in this particular video. It doesn't sound like Florence to me, but that's just my opinion from my own ears.

[danren25101]

She wrote this song by herself.

[scatterbrain4242]

I bet Arcade Fire covering this song would sound amazing

[FPSGlasson]

*I've always known there was something to be frightened of, not something to be find.

[weakintheknees]

and i love that the cheerful beat contrasts the seriousness of the breakdown!

[weakintheknees]

i know exactly what she means!

[dermor18]

My christmas song! :P

[manateepants]

this song makes me...happy :{D love Florence + The Machine

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I'm breaking down for Joey.

[KtotheY77]

I love those strings in the background, at least it sounds like strings.

[corazondeazul1]

@Mwahahahasupporter being crazy.

If you don't get it, you're probably normal. 

[Mwahahahasupporter]

What is this song about?

[sundaypiglet]

Is she referring to the shadow?

[CloseTheCurtainsNow]

WRONG SOUND. SUCKS ASS. I KNOW IT'S IN A LOWER KEY COS OF COPYRIGHT ETC. IT STILL SUCKS.

[EmpireOceans]

if you take the time and effort to truly understand the lyrics to this song, IT WILL CREEP YOU THE FUCK OUT

[IPodFreak908]

@EmpireOceans She wrote it about guilt, and how it always followed her. Eventually shed 'break down' and give into the guilt. Its not that creepy.

[EmpireOceans]

@IPodFreak908 i always imagined this ghastly looking ghoul all dressed in green burlap stalking her, moving with a stagnate limp, kinda like a gas-induced nightmare from batman returns. that's what i saw when i thought about loneliness. maybe i just have an overactive imagination

[IPodFreak908]

@EmpireOceans Lol. Its not bad to have an imagination....even if its overactive, but there is kinda a limit on what her songs are about. People who haven't listened, or understood the lyrics think shes possessed or something. Like, Rabbit Heart, or Seven Devils. Im surprised people haven't called her insane for her music, but its cuz they havent listened to her yet<3

[LunaLovegood4411]

My fave song from the album!

[MissPrincess112]

@LunaLovegood4411 YEAAAAAAH, mine too <3 I totally love this song, Im in lovee

[LunaLovegood4411]

@MissPrincess112  HEHEH<3

[Jaychamp85]

this song is so good, its very close to Electric Light Orchestra's style, love it! :D

[mochofalante]

it reminds me an on old eurovision song....

[TheSarabaras]

Not sure if this reminds me of christmas song or just another awesome song from Florence...

[angrybeaversfan]

This is a song that goes well when your listening to it while looking out a window in a car where on the side there are farms and fields :)

[barewl]

This song sounds so familiar to something I've hear before.

[Toeter84]

I can hear that 'reeba' or 'rebound' too. It isn't really strange to have one of your band members shouting something for reference / cue in the beginning of a song, is it?

[whatthefuck2772]

reminds me on christmas songs :)

[riannederiquito]

reminds me of the 80's

[TechnicalJake]

I facepalmed when I searched this and breaking dawn was the first video to come up.

[britishblossom1213]

@TechnicalJake Me too!

[CoolJeannette]

@TechnicalJake yeah!!!!so annoying......i almost punched my laptop at the fifth time.....

[loverofmythology]

@TechnicalJake you and me both x.x and i actually realized before i even typed it, 'shit twilight's gonna come up -.-'

[PeepsILoveEllie]

oh wow.

Florence, what the hell are you doing to me? :)

I can feel my heart open when listening to this. SO GOOD. :') ..

[musefreakk]

i hate when people say "it is in breaking dawn soundtrack or what?"

NO BITCHES IT IS down, NOT FUCKING dawn AND IT IS AN AWESOME FLORENCE'S SONG, WHICH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH TWILIGHT.

[animefreakjay]

@musefreakk tell dem fuck ass bitches again omg its so annoying how they try to match those completly diffrent things up

[missykkqueen]

@musefreakk IM WITH U ON THAT ONE MY FLORENCE LOVING ASWELL FRIEND!

[MsImAmenace]

you should have rights this is america!!!!^^^^

[pinqkitty]

i love love love this creepy song!!!!

[icarus187]

my favorite holiday song, happy holidays to each and every one!

[Ztikara]

Slenderman, is that you?

[alcatraz9vt]

This has just a hint of The Killers to it. I love it, my favorite on the album.

[KiyokaMakibi]

I think you have some of the words wrong..

[colab0ttles]

the backing music sounds so christmassy!

[czuczu200]

This song sounds like Xmas carol. :D

[becauseimwells]

Yeah, sounds a bit like what you can hear on pretty much every Beatles track..

[2w8o1t1e1v9e9r5]

@becauseimwells She looked up to the Beatles are her inspiration when she was growing up and has took on their style in her own interpretations. :DDD

[Aelthas89]

Am I the only one to hear someone screaming something like "Reeba" at 00:03 or what?

[98coqui]

@Aelthas89 omg i heard it too

[AFdancergirlio]

@98coqui me too its really quiet though

[shmickful]

@Aelthas89 thats actually really creepy, how did u catch that?

[willowsendeavor]

@Aelthas89 yea it does sound like someone says that

[GlamourDevilla]

@Aelthas89 OMG i can hear it too. ; )

[coolsoccerchica101]

@Aelthas89 someone is saying "arreeba!" like what people do i don't know how to explain it.... ahah

[Lulubellwilley]

@Aelthas89 I hear it too. It's like the "yay" at the end of the Between Two Lungs song. It's there, but it's not known if it was intentional or not.

[vicmonfly]

@Aelthas89 mmmmm river?

[debbyrodd]

@Aelthas89 i hear it!

[Jaychamp85]

@Aelthas89 dude thats so crazy I heard reeba too, but i didnt know i heard it till you said something and then my self conscious kicked in and i remembered hearing it lol crazy, good find :)

[idolikespyro]

@Aelthas89 once i read your comment i listened to it twice and i heard it the second time

[MsLycanlover]

@Aelthas89 OMG i can hear it too O.o

[ToriAndyErica]

@Aelthas89 I just went back and turned up the volume and heard it XD

[LdCTTS]

@Aelthas89 I think it is spanish "arriba" (upstairs).

[quiglover]

@Aelthas89 No you aren't haha its weird!

[rosie21elise]

Florence + the Machine = love

I've never loved math more

[paloriggs]

the piano bit reminds me of 'another day in paradise', by every fathers favourite, phil ''i'm a bore'' collins

[thesignthebridge]

Love this song! This whole album is AMAZING!

[hannahmh106]

nice work...except at 1:29, she says "there was something to be frightened of" (as a child), and not "something to be find" :)

[rockchalkjayhawks100]

Reminds me of 60's music LOVE IT

[Ticktock2020]

This is a great song, but sounds totally like Arcade Fire.

[Hurtyouthesounds]

@Ticktock2020 Maybe that's why i like it so much...hm.

[Dais1995]

this would sound like a chrismas song, if the main lyrics weren't "i think im breaking down again"

im still playing this on christmas though :D

[absolutelymiserable]

what font did you use for the lyrics? it's pretty :)

[martyw34]

this is 'different'.Brit d.j Glynn Greensmith played this on 6wf 720.The good lad answered my email on who it was.Tars to the uploader,too!

[fanmvf]

i agree with you. lets do this song a Christmas song:)

[sydneytran712]

i dont know murderhopes. im kind of liking florence more than she & him. 

[codememo14]

The second i heard this i thought. YAY CHRISTMAS!

[jasminnie]

i thought the line was "there was something to be frightened of."

[butchmeister3000]

@jasminnie I think your right mate, ace tune though, best Flo yet?

[cvano003]

@jasminnie Yeah, it sounds nothing like something to be find

[tyrannito]

it reminds me of florence and the machine

[TheBrunetteInBlue]

@tyrannito thats because it is. DUMB SHIT.

[tyrannito]

@TheBrunetteInBlue i was just being sarcastic idiot

[Fatoshleo]

it's sounds like Abba in Christmas time

[ijessica509]

sounds really christmas-sy.

[angrybeaversfan]

@ijessica509 Christmas :D

[Buddhahahahaha]

SOUNDS LIKE FIGHT CLUB

[dolcemama]

the music reminds me of harry potter

[breedak]

Ah jesus lads and lassies, it's a gorgeous song, let sleeping dogs lie or coke-less orphaned kittens for that matter (Loved that! )

[106willgetme]

This kind of reminds me of Neighborhood #1(Tunnels) by Arcade Fire... But I think I'm just crazy :P

[sepidehtje]

people have gone mad...this doesn't sound like Arcade Fire and in no ways does it sound like She & Him. What do you eat that makes you hallucinate like this?

[jasminnie]

@sepidehtje lmao

[cvano003]

@sepidehtje

It DOES sound like the whole world by Outkast!! :)

[puddlesmudge]

A rare Individual. If you ask a 70yr old Arist how long it took to paint his latest Painting - He`d say `all my life`... great Artists are worth the wait.

[kenaynay5]

i hope going mainstream doesn't change her

[girlsneutral]

this sounds like all of the arcade fire songs meshed in to one... espppecially rococo and the Suburbs feel in general hmmmmm ever since Florence ripped off some lyrics from Gang Gang Dance's 'House Jam' and got hit for plagiarism I have regretfully been listening to her very carefully ever since

[odd0odium]

@girlsneutral I personally don't have any problem with songs that are influenced by other artist's. People should stop with the plagiarism crap already. It was a mistake and anyone with a brain would know that.

[iamtom4ever]

Lyrics transcription fail.

[CrownedWithLaurels]

@iamtom4ever You are receiving something for free. You are owed nothing and entitled to nothing. Someone uploaded this, for no compensation whatsoever. So if you feel the need to point out a mistake, at least have the common fucking courtesy to include the words "thank you" in there somewhere.

[iamtom4ever]

@CrownedWithLaurels Wow, someone on the internet uploaded something with NO COMPENSATION? As a personal favor to ME?? That's incredible! I feel so loved!! I'm at one with the universe! THANK YOU for enlightening me with your words of wisdom. I'm going to go light a candle for peace and and buy an orphaned kitten a coke.

[CrownedWithLaurels]

@iamtom4ever Oh, that's wonderful! I'm so glad you've come around we can be fr- wait a minute. You... you were being sarcastic, weren't you?

[sleeksilverxo]

lol the opening sounded like those holiday mixes you hear playing in diners :') fuck, this album is perfection.

[runvalvan]

Love this song, its incredible.. it gave me a little dayshavoo.. So i followed where i thought i knew it from.. Check this out, compare the choruses b/t this song and the whole world by outkast... Kinda cool, both awesome songs

[Chapel808Pliskin]

the opening and ending sounds like Phil Collins so amazing

[ayishaangelica]

Love this song!



[CheeseAndOnion11]

Sounds so Kate Bush like. Absolutely love it. My favourite song, explains a lot as well. Lovelovelovelove Florence.

[frodho685]

i think this is the best song on ceremonials

[TheAnnaDLC]

So mod and indie sounding! Love love love it:)

[Inkblot1218]

Somehow ... this almost vaguely reminds of Arcade Fire at parts ... Don't hate on me, it's just a thought.

[lyralestranger]

@Inkblot1218 I thought the same

[Tashalanigan1]

Beginning always reminds me of Christmas music! Beautiful song though, as always :)

[codelegant]

"There was something to be find" should be "There was something to be frightened of"

[AbiT50]

Anyone else thinks this sounds a bit like Beach House?

[silverstreak34]

This would be good backing music for the credits for Paranormal Activity 4.

[ilovepesto19]

@silverstreak34 Is there going to be a 4th one?!?! :D

[lazyjumper]

@silverstreak34 that just destroyed it, now im scared :c

xP

[iGoBOMMIE]

Reminds me of Arcade Fire

[TheAnnaDLC]

@iGoBOMMIE She's a huge fan of Arcade Fire, so it's probably influenced by them:)

[iGoBOMMIE]

@TheAnnaDLC most definitely! she is the female version of Win

[PokeLover781]

reminds me of a not very well known song by John Lennon in the 70's

[jasminnie]

@PokeLover781 ooh! are you talking about #9 dream??? just a guess. i love john lennon.

[destroybot3000]

"Crapping in the streetlight?!?!"  @ 1:35 Thanks.

[spiffysquid]

@destroybot3000 It's "creeping in the streetlight"

[ROoooo80]

it's about an incubus? Not the band

[miguelparedesmar]

sounds like Ana and Velouria from Pixies

[mrmilkyhaze]

are people fucking serious? how and in what way does this sound like she&him?

[KtotheY77]

@mrmilkyhaze

This doesn't sound anything like She & Him, they gotta be on drugs.

[laurenloveMUSE]

i love how this one hasnt got her usual strain on her voice (even though i love that) and it just shows how versatile she id

[daraeleanor]

i think this will be my christmas track 2011 :) 

[ophelia931]

Arcade Fire needs to do a cover of this.

[marrymekate]

@ophelia931 haha i thought of arcade fire too, kind of feels similar to neigborhood #1, specially the bridge, not that is a bad thing at all.

[Imagineforever3]

Ceremonials.. this is proper music!

[abcpokemon95]

I love when she says "creeping in the streetlight" and then she says "smiling in the streetlight". I love this woman.

[joronajeblet]

Class song.

[murderhopes]

Sounds like She&Him !!!