Music speaks to me. Songs can make me jump up and dance until I'm out of breath. They can make me want to curl in on myself and cry until I have no tears left in my body. Others are ones I play in the car with the windows down while I belt it for all to hear. (Joking the second I pull up to another car the windows go up and I quietly sing the song while using the steering wheel as a drum set.) While others make me just sit in one spot while I soak in the words and make me feel calm. There are some songs that have gotten me through the rough times, while others remind me of the happy moments in my life.
But there is no other artist out there that has made me feel the way I do when I listen to Florence + The Machine. Not only is her voice exquisite, but her lyrics are some of the ones that touch me the most. She has a song for just about everything, but there was one of hers that I heard which I knew was my heart song.
It explained everything, everything, I've ever felt since I was 12 in just over 4 minutes. It's like it was written expressly for me to listen to when I want to give up, or make others listen too when I just can't answer the question "How are you?" Or when I need that boost of encouragement to tell myself "You'll get past this next hurdle in your life. Stand straight and shake it off and put one foot in front of the other. You can do this! You're strong. Just shake it out."
This is my anthem Ladies and Gentlemen and one day I will carry words from this song on my skin for all to see!
Florence + The Machine- Shake It Out
Regrets collect like old friends
Here to relive your darkest moments
I can see no way, I can see no way
And all of the ghouls come out to play
And every demon wants his pound of flesh
But I like to keep some things to myself
I like to keep my issues drawn
It's always darkest before the dawn
And I've been a fool and I've been blind
I can never leave the past behind
I can see no way, I can see no way
I'm always dragging that horse around
Our love is pastured, such a mournful sound
Tonight I'm gonna bury that horse in the ground
So I like to keep my issues drawn
But it's always darkest before the dawn
Shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, ooh whoa
Shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, ooh whoa
And it's hard to dance with a devil on your back
So shake him off, oh whoa
And I am done with my graceless heart
So tonight I'm gonna cut it out and then restart
'Cause I like to keep my issues drawn
It's always darkest before the dawn
Shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, ooh whoa
Shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, ooh whoa
And it's hard to dance with a devil on your back
So shake him off, oh whoa
And it's hard to dance with a devil on your back
And given half the chance would I take any of it back
It's a fine romance but it's left me so undone
It's always darkest before the dawn
Oh whoa, oh whoa...
And I'm damned if I do and I'm damned if I don't
So here's to drinks in the dark at the end of my road
And I'm ready to suffer and I'm ready to hope
It's a shot in the dark aimed right at my throat
'Cause looking for heaven, found the devil in me
Looking for heaven, found the devil in me
Well what the hell I'm gonna let it happen to me, yeah
Shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, ooh whoa
Shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, ooh whoa
And it's hard to dance with a devil on your back
So shake him off, oh whoa
Shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, ooh whoa
Shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, ooh whoa
And it's hard to dance with a devil on your back
So shake him off, oh whoa
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