My initial thought processes, themes & ideas for my chosen song choice

Chosen Song: Florence and The Machine - Never Let me Go

  Analysis of Lyrics

I began to look at the lyrics for mychosen song and analyse what they could mean. I looked up these lyrics on google and found existing analyses of the song and its meaning. I found a different range of opinions. Some thought that the song could be about Love or Broken Love, and that she is asking her lover to 'never let me go'.
Some thought that it may be about drugs. 'And the crashes of heaven',
'For a sinner released'.
Some also thought the video may be about God betraying her.

I took these following meanings from a webpage about what people thought the meanings behind the lyrics to Never Let Me Go were about: http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858884726/
1 General Comment:Actually, the song is about Virginia Woolfe. She committed suicide by drowning herself. Florence wrote this song about how it must have felt like. The love story you see in the video is based on her last note to her husband: "What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that—everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been."
-A part of Virginia Wolf's last note to her husband

 2 My Opinion:I feel as if it's about being damaged. The character Florence is portraying is suicidal but found love. She's found a place to be peaceful, yet her past and wounds still drag her to that dark. She feels unworthy, but happy she found this place to be safe. Never let me go could be a means of save me and don't give up on me. That's exactly how I feel when I listen to this song.

 

3 Song Meaning:Suicide; plain and simple. If you watch the music video, it shows her and a boy dancing around alone on an ice rink in teir socks. The couple is obviously in love, but she keeps dripping black water and oil. By the end of it, even her love for the boy and all the effort she puts out (portrayed with the soap bubbles) can't stop her from slipping into the blackness. The lyrics "never let me go" mean both that she doesn't want to be forgotten and that she doesn't want to come back to the living.

 

 

 4 I have 2 ideas for what this is about.

A. She's finding peace in committing suicide by drowning herself at the bottom of the sea. Before she finally slips into death, she wonders if she'll go to heaven or hell.

B. It's a metaphor for love. She's enveloped by it and using it as a requiem

I thought that the exhisting music video to the song was hard to understand and I found it hard to get a grasp of what it was trying to convey.

 

Analysing the Lyrics

 

Never Let Me Go

Looking up from underneath

Fractured moonlight on the sea

Reflections still look the same to me

As before I went under

And it's peaceful in the deep

Cathedral where you cannot breathe

No need to pray no need to speak

Now I am under all

And it's breaking over me

A thousand miles down to the sea bed

Found the place to rest my head

Never let me go

Never let me go

And the arms of the ocean are carrying me

And all this devotion was rushing out of me

In the crashes of heaven for a sinner like me

But the arms of the ocean delivered me

Though the pressure's hard to take

It's the only way I can escape

It seems a heavy choice to make

And now I am under all

And it's breaking over me

A thousand miles down to the sea bed

Found the place to rest my head

Never let me go

Never let me go

And the arms of the ocean are carrying me

And all this devotion was rushing out of me

In the crashes of heaven for a sinner like me

But the arms of the ocean delivered me

And it's over

And I'm going under

But I'm not giving up

I'm just giving in

I'm slipping underneath

So cold and so sweet

And the arms of the ocean

So sweet and so cold

And all this devotion I never knew at all

In the crashes of heaven for a sinner released

But the arms of the ocean delivered me

Never let me go

Never let me go

Deliver me

Never let me go

Never let me go

Deliver me

Never let me go

Never let me go

Deliver me

Never let me go

Never let me go

And it's over

And I'm going under

But I'm not giving up

I'm just giving in

I'm slipping underneath

So cold and so sweet

My Initial Ideas for the Music Video