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precious Flo is too excited to control her hands

I’m not a religious person. Sex, Violence, Love, Death, all the topics that I’m constantly wrestling with, it’s all connected back to Religion.

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Visiting your past self 😏 #backtothefuture

#magda

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Florence Welch according to some tumblr tags

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Florence + The Machine, Spectrum (x)

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Your energy and the gnosis that you have about yourself is a little bit different than most people. You’re connected to something!

When I’m performing and when I’m singing I feel very… like, it’s not really a 100% me that’s in charge or whatever; I know that there’s another state that I go into, like even preparing to perform I wouldn’t be able to say what that was, but yeah, there’s definitely something that’s going on there that seems to be like… that I get lost in, but it doesn’t mean that I’m so lost because I feel very there! It’s weird! It’s like being really myself and then being somewhere else all at the same time. So, I never feel most, kind of, with everyone and most like I’m disappearing when I’m on stage. It’s a very strange feeling. And sometimes I can’t really remember whole performances and stuff.

…you get this hypnotic look on your face that is connected to what’s happening.

Yeah! It’s like you feel the energy of everyone and, you know, especially performing outside if you can see the landscape and the sky you know there’s a real sense of, like, oneness. That, I think, is what I’m really trying to achieve in a performance.

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When I was growing up, there were these news stories that kept popping up in my life about children who would get swept out to sea, and the parents would dive in after them. I’d seen these news stories crop up again and again, and it made me think of this idea of the sea being this entity that needs a sacrifice—like, if it’s going to take your children, then you have to give yourself. It got me thinking about the power of water, like in Virginia Woolf, and that sense of really being overwhelmed by something. I also remembered this idea, I think from a childhood story, about a river that has to have someone drowned in it before you can cross it—like, if you see a river running smoothly, it’s because someone has drowned in it, and if it’s raging, it means that it’s still got bloodlust … It’s all very morbid. My dad always gets asked at parties, “What did you do to her?”