FLORENCE WELSH - THE END OF LOVE

THE END OF LOVE

FLORENCE WELCH

SONGWRITERS: FLORENCE WELCH & TOBIAS MACDONALD JESSO

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: HIGH AS HOPE

LABEL: REPUBLIC RECORDS

GENRE: INDIE

YEAR: 2018

 

       Florence Leontine Mary Welch (born 28 August 1986) is an English singer, the lead vocalist and primary songwriter of the indie rock band Florence and the Machine. The band's debut studio album, Lungs(2009), topped the UK Albums Chart after charting for 28 consecutive weeks and won the BRIT Award for Best British Album. The band's second album, Ceremonials(2011), debuted at number one in the UK and number six on the US Billboard 200. Their third album, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful(2015), received positive reviews and topped the UK and US albums chart. The band's fourth album, High as Hope, was released in June 2018 and has sold over one million copies worldwide. In 2018, Welch also released a book titled Useless Magic, a collection of lyrics and poems written by her, along with illustrations.

     In 2022, the band announced their fifth studio álbum Dance Fever set to be released on 13 May 2022.

     High as Hope is the fourth studio album by English indie rock band Florence and the Machine. It was released on 29 June 2018, by Republic and Virgin EMI Records. It was preceded by the singles "Sky Full of Song" and "Hunger". "Patricia" was released as the third and final single on 10 August 2018.

       The album was executively produced by Florence Welch herself, along with Emile Haynie. Following How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful(2015), High as Hope features more minimalist, stripped-down productions and explores themes of heartache, loss, family, and finding comfort in loneliness. The album received positive reviews upon release, with music critics lauding Welch's vocal delivery and personal lyricism.

I feel nervous in a way that can't be named

I dreamt last night of a sign that read, "The end of love"

And I remember thinking even in my dreaming

It was a good line for a song

 

We were a family pulled from a flood

You tore the floorboards up

And let the river rush in

Not wash away, wash away

 

We were reaching in the dark

That summer in New York

And it was so far to fall

But it didn't hurt at all

You let it wash away, wash away

 

And in a moment of joy and fury I threw myself

From the balcony like my grandmother some years before me

I've always been in love with you

Could you tell it from the moment that I met you?

 

And we were a family pulled from a flood

You tore the floorboards up

And let the river rush in

Not wash away, wash away

 

We were reaching in the dark (wash away)

That summer in New York (wash away)

And was it so far to fall (wash away)

Said it didn't hurt at all

I let it wash away, wash away

 

And Joshua came down from the mountain

With a tablet in his hands

Told me that he loved me, yeah

And then ghosted me again

 

We were reaching in the dark

That summer in New York

And it was so far to fall

But it didn't hurt at all

I let it wash away, wash away

 

Reaching in the dark (wash away)

That summer in New York (wash away)

And was it so far to fall? (wash away)

But it didn't hurt at all

I let it wash away, wash away.