Florence + the Machine: Cosmic Love Meaning
Song Released: 2010
Cosmic Love Lyrics
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...
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#1 top rated interpretation:To me, Cosmic Love is about a woman who is deeply scarred by love. She has been in love before, and it left her feeling beaten and broken (whether literally or just figuratively). Now, she has fallen in love again. Her emotions have been taken hostage by love because she resigned to love unwillingly. It happened without her really wanting it to (but still did because let’s be honest, even the hardest hearts long to be softened by love), and the object of her affection is apparently not returning her feelings. It is making her feel desperate because once again, love is becoming a bad experience for her. She feels rejected and just wants to crawl out of the darkness (The Darkness is just her way of looking at and thinking about love). But along the way, she hears his heart beating. She realizes that he had not rejected her, but he had also been blinded. He was just as scared of love as she was because his experiences with love were just as bad as hers. She recognized it, and she realized that she was exactly where she needed to be, and he was right there with her. They were both lost in the same darkness. They found a way to bond around (and despite) their fear of love. She stayed in the darkness with him. They both resigned to being two blind and broken fools falling in love in the only way damaged folks can. Very, VERY cautiously!
If you consider other songs in her albums, especially her earliest stuff like Kiss with a Fist, you kind of notice a theme of love being equated with pain, and sometimes even violence. A lot of her stuff speaks to me in this way. -
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#2 top rated interpretation:i think this song is about love, obviously. that a girl falls in love with a boy and she is blinded by that love. she is so consumed by the love that she is in the dark "the stars, the moon, they have all been blown out you left me in the dark" and is scared because she doesnt believe he feels the same way. So she decides to leave the relationship "i took the stars from my eyes, then i made a map, i knew that somehow i would find my way back" but in doing so she realizes that the boy she fell for is also deeply in love with her so they lose themselves in eachother. "i heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too, so i stayed in the darkness with you"
Hope this helps! -
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#3 top rated interpretation:there isn't a happy ending. yes she is blinded by her love for him but every time she tries to leave he makes it seem like he loves her making her stay. however after that shes still stuck in the darkness in the shadow of his heart not with him but with only the idea of him loving her.
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(Accidently hit submit so part 2 of 2 lol)
So anyway she becomes enveloped with the depression. She doesn't leave, she doesn't do anything she likes, she becomes numb.
"I took the stars from our 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"
I think she finally realizes she has to go she makes a plan and when she is ready he tells her he is sorry and he loves her and tells her he can't lose her and so she stays even though she knows it will be the same and she will continue to be miserable she decides to stay anyway.
Whatever the song means it is beautiful and sad. I love her voice and love her lyrics.. -
I think this song is about staying in a relationship that is no longer happy and healthy because you feel like it will be what it once was.
"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."
I think she wasn't wanting to be in a relationship but he persisted and made her see him as someone she could trust and even though she resisted she fell in love and it seemed so great it blinded her to reality..
"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."
He acted like he would give her the stars and the moon. He pretended he would be great to her then when she fell deeply in love he changed. He was going to give her the world and made her so happy then he just changes and leaves her confused and lost and depressed. I don't think he physically leaves her. He stays and just treats her bad but says he loves her while he shows the opposite. so his actions don't make her believe that there is any real hope hence the no dawn no day but he says he loves her he says he's sorry and even though though she can feel that it is not true she still clings on to the little bit of hope, or the twighlight because she wants his love back so she stays because of the memory of when he loved her and the hope that he will again and that is the shadow of his heart.
"And in the dark, I can hear your heartbeat. I tried to find the sound. " Some times he will pretend he is going to change back to that guy he was and it starts to reach her in her dark place.
"But then it stopped, and I was in the darkness. So darkness I became" Before it even makes her feel good he goes right back to treating her like crap so she is still in the darkness. After so long of all this she becomes one with the darkness. She prolly stops talking to friegds
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It's about unrequited love. She loved this man so much but he never admitted to loving her back but she feels his love for her until it stopped, so she was in the dark. She tried to find herself and move on but in the process she discovered that he did have feelings for her and was in the dark as well but she still chose to join him in the darkness. She never revealed to him that she loves him back.
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There was something about this person which drew Florence in (a falling star fell from your heart and landed in my eyes). The love was so overpowering and all encompassing that it became painful (I screamed aloud, as it tore through them), ultimately blinding her to the world around (and now its left me blind)The destruction of the relationship (personally I think it to be by death) has caused the world to seem bleak and dark (the stars, the moon, they have all been blown out). It is implicit that this was a sudden blow (they have all be blown out). Florence is now in a sea of grief and uncertainty (you left me in the dark). The grief seems never ending, and hope seems to run in short supply, there is no end to her pain in sight (no dawn no day, I’m always in this twilight). She is forever immersed in the pain caused by the loss of this person and their love (in the shadow of your heart). Florence realizes that in her grief is the memory of the person and in that sense they remain present (and in the dark I can hear your heartbeat). She attempts to hold onto the memories of this person (I tried to find the sound), but as her memories begin to fade she once more returns to her grief (but then it stopped and I was in the darkness). Florence relents to the grief and allows it to consume her (so darkness I became). Florence tries to put her love and pain aside and build a life once more (I took the stars from my eyes and made a map) she has blind faith that one day she will be fine (and knew that somehow I could find my way back). She painful memories once more infiltrate her thoughts, reminding her that within the grief is the person she once loved (Then I heard your heart beating you were in the darkness too), and thus her efforts to overcome the grief fall to the wayside (so I stayed in the darkness with you) as the memories of her love bring her solace.
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My interpretation is a little bit different. In my version, she fell in love with someone. The two were deeply connected, until a sudden event took him away, hence, "the stars, the moon, they have all been blown out. You left me in the dark."
When the song then says, "no dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight", she seems stuck in time because she can't get over losing him. In the next part, when she says she could hear his heartbeat, she is in denial from losing him, then starts to look for him. When it stops, she is so heartbroken that she turns to the darkness for comfort. Then the chorus come around, and she is once again reminded of her loss.
When she mentions "taking the stars and making a map", she finally got over losing him, then tried to get back to her old self. But she became doubtful when she thought what if he came back. "You were in the darkness", she then found him, and all the painful memories came back, making her happy that she was whole again. -
Here's the version I love the most from Florence and the Machine. This version .... is hauntingly beautiful and it makes me cry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gMq3hRLDD0&feature=share&list=PLfz_44elSUw-ZP0xV9JtyPk4XHc-KYqss -
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I think it is possible she is channeling. Sometimes in song, you hear the word "love" and you think this is between people, but sometimes it is the relationship of humans with an entity, such as a government that is oppressive.
The love represents love for ones homeland, country and flag, yet the government occupying it, is sometimes difficult to love. If a government is doing wrongly, cosmic loyalty, cosmic love results. People adapt to its oppressive tentacle, deception or techniques.
The star falls from the heart of this oppressive government. "A star can fall" from the sky over a country as well, and for the poetic license in song and in lyric, this is acceptable. -
I think it is possible she is channeling. Sometimes in song, you hear the work "love" and you think this is between people, but sometimes it is the relationship of humans with an entity, such as a government that is oppressive.
The star falls from the heart of this oppressive government. "A star can fall" from the sky over a country as well, and for the poetic license in song and in lyric, this is acceptable.
It lands in the eyes (blinding those who are obedient to the oppressive government). The employees working for the oppressive government do things they would not otherwise do, for payment and employment.
Thus while being blind they learn of its darkness and blend with it too.
They adapt to "it." They become like the darkness.
They adopt the dogma of oppressive/subversive governments. This happens world wide irregardless of faith or religion. They become captives of that government working for it, and doing its bidding.
"I stayed in the darkness with you."
They are in Cosmic love with it. It pays for their needs, and they are dependent on it.
As Florence may have well experienced what some call a "depression," this could as easily have been an "oppression."
She could have witnessed the oppression and subversion of a relative, a cherished aunt and uncle who were married but who were filed a lien against and whose property was seized.
As she had grown up cherishing their love and their visits, it left an impression when their marriage was shattered or destroyed by this government encroachment against their lives. All their happiness left, and she longed for it as a child. Adored it as an adolescent.
She could have also witnessed a father or sibling, or even in passing on the street, saw a neighbor or complete stranger being pushed out and their furniture moved and the lady/children of the family, crying and sobbing. The man at odds with what to do, how to care for his family.
Also, she could have been the child of a family so mistreated. Whose family was up in alarm at the deceptiveness of government employees (even in Imperialist Great Britain, bad things are done in the name of the crown, in the name of inflation and monetary supply - to the government). Governments during times of war, try to seize property with "adjustment fraud." This is so that they can have collateral to borrow against, when they are borrowed up to their limit already in trying to finance expensive war machines.
As there is much media manipulation, and governments still do attack others for being critical of it, she wrote a song, that disguises her regard for oppressive governments. And sings of it, in a Spirit that is free in expression. And thus evades prosecution or retaliation from governments which are still very dishonest in ways, degenerate in others. Oppressive.
I commend her for this Spirit, is a victorious sound to my soul.
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I think it is possible she is channeling. Sometimes in song, you hear the work "love" and you think this is between people, but sometimes it is the relationship of humans with an entity, such as a government that is oppressive.
The star falls from the heart of this oppressive government. "A star can fall" from the sky over a country as well, and for the poetic license in song and in lyric, this is acceptable.
It lands in the eyes (blinding those who are obedient to the oppressive government). The employees working for the oppressive government do things they would not otherwise do, for payment and employment.
Thus while being blind they learn of its darkness and blend with it too.
They adapt to "it." They become like the darkness.
They adopt the dogma of oppressive/subversive governments. This happens world wide irregardless of faith or religion. They become captives of that government working for it, and doing its bidding.
"I stayed in the darkness with you."
They are in Cosmic love with it. It pays for their needs, and they are dependent on it.
As Florence may have well experienced what some call a "depression," this could as easily have been an "oppression."
She could have witnessed the oppression and subversion of a relative, a cherished aunt and uncle who were married but who were filed a lien against and whose property was seized.
As she had grown up cherishing their love and their visits, it left an impression when their marriage was shattered or destroyed by this government encroachment against their lives. All their happiness left, and she longed for it as a child. Adored it as an adolescent.
She could have also witnessed a father or sibling, or even in passing on the street, saw a neighbor or complete stranger being pushed out and their furniture moved and the lady/children of the family, crying and sobbing. The man at odds with what to do, how to care for his family.
Also, she could have been the child of a family so mistreated. Whose family was up in alarm at the deceptiveness of government employees (even in Imperialist Great Britain, bad things are done in the name of the crown, in the name of inflation and monetary supply - to the government).
As there is much media manipulation, and governments still do attack others for being critical of it, she wrote a song, that disguises her regard for oppressive governments. And sings of it, in a Spirit that is free in expression. And thus evades prosecution or retaliation from governments which are still very dishonest in ways, degenerate in others. Oppressive. Subversive of public trust.
I commend her for this Spirit, is a victorious sound to my soul.
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i think it is a sad love story too, she is certain of her blinding love for him.
but she finds glimpses of his 'love' for her in: "i can hear your heartbeat, i tried to find the sound"
when she tries to make sure of it as in 'find it', he changes, or turns cold.. or so it seems, i assumed that from "but then, it stopped."
so she might have given up a little to the depressing feeling of the longing: "and i was in the darkness... so darkness i became." *she seems to give up by going back to being herself until...
when she hears his heartbeat the second time, she becomes clear that he also has affections for her, so she decides to live with this 'maybe painful' love >"you were in the darkness too, so, i stayed in the darkness with you."
"no dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight" i think here she indicates to the fluctuating state that she's in, where she is obsessed with the love but uncertain of his love.. -
I think that it is about a girl who falls in love and then gets dumped. When she is dumped she is blinded by love and trys to get the boy back. Then she is left behind his heart hense "left in the shadows of your heart" or forgotten. Then he ends up wanting her again and goes in the darkness with her. She takes the stars from her eyes and stays in the dark, stays with him.
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I think its about a quest to find God/Truth/Spirtuality. Classic tale of searching everywhere for something that was under her nose the entire time.
Its a little far fetched, but that's where my mind took it. -
I think this song is about depression/emotional issue. I think she is talking about how she battled depression/emotional issue and got through it but then fell in love with someone who was also had depression/emotional issue and instead of leaving them and moving on she let herself be pulled down into the depression and destructive relationship.
"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 love she feels for this man blinds her and shes unable to see her way out of the relationship, she become blind to all the problems they both have)
"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 think in this verse shes trying to explain how shes trying to fix all her partners issues, but ultimatly is failing, trying to find the sound of his heartbeat would imply trying to help him open up and share, but it stopped because they have become so detached from eachother that she feels as if shes now in the deppression alone the chorus reflects this "Youve left me in the dark")
The "stars in her eyes" shes refferng to means that she was blinded by denile about her emtional issue. She fights through her problems only to find that her partner is still there fighting his and instead of leaving she stays with him.
"I took the stars from our eyes, and then I made a map" (shaking of her problems)
"And knew that somehow I could find my way back" (get back to her old self)
Then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too (she found he was suffering from deppression aswell)
So I stayed in the darkness with you (what shes bascially saying here is i can move on with out you but instead im going to stay her in pain with you-we will be in pain together).
I think its about two partners battling their own individual emotional problems and becoming entwined in each others because its portrayed that way through the whole song. When people describe themselves as being depressed they often refer to it as darkness. And say that there moods are neither good nor bad just netural, this is reflected in the following line
"No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight" (Stuck in one spot neither up or down)
In the shadow of your heart (and finally i think that this line is implying that his problems are outshadowing hers, shes suffering too but quitly- suffering in silence. while her partners problems are so obvious hers are going unnoticed. -
I think that it could be about how she is blinded by a love that wasn't the best it could be. Then he leaves her, but she can't really get over it, "You left me in the dark... In the shadow of your heart". Then she suddenly comes to terms with it, and she became the darkness she was living in.
Then after she grows out of it, and is able to get out, she finds someone else, whether it's the first guy or not, and she realizes she can stay there with them. -
I just lost my soul mate to sudden death. I think that is what this song means. That is what it means to me now.
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