Lyric breakdown: Florence and the Machine

Florence and the Machine – Cosmic love:

(In-studio)

Hayley is posing within a picture and she begins to lip-sync the first few lines, she suddenly decided she’s had enough and she steps out. 

A fallen star fell from your heart and landed in my eyes. (0.06 – 0.17)

I screamed aloud as it tore through them and now it’s left me blind. (0.20 – 0.31)

(Museum if possible)

(Dress change for Hayley, if we have permission by the museum she attempts to escape the museum, into reality and is scared and runs away)

The stars, the moon they have all been blown out. (0.33 – 0.40)

You’ve left me in the dark (0.40 – 0.44)

The tilt shot goes upwards towards the sky and then when it comes back down, we’re in another location and Hayley is on the beach/ abandoned house) 

No dawn, no day I’m always in this twilight in the shadow of your heart (0.47 – 0.59)

And in the dark I can hear your heart beat, I tried to find the sun (1.01 – 1.11)

Pan of the candles on the wall as Hayley is dragging her nails across the wall as she quickens the pace, and spins around and dancing. 

But then, it’s starts and I was in the darkness, the darkness I became (1.15 – 1.28)

The stars, the moon they have all been blown out. You’ve left me in the dark (1.29 – 1.39)

No dawn, no day I’m always in this twilight in the shadow of your heart (1.42 – 1.53)

Dance sequence quickens, she does a full dress changes when she spins around and the lighting is erratic, because it goes from dark to light and candles are spread throughout the room, she imagines people from her painting and backs into a corner. 

Ou-oh, Ou-oh, Ou-oh, Ou-oh, Ou-oh, Ou-oh, Ou-oh (longest) (1.56 – 2. 09)

She's kneeling on the ground in shallow focus with the candles been the main focus and she grabs the candles and we get a close up of Hayley's face. She looks up and then back down and the scenario changes and we're back at the beach.

 I took the stars from my eyes and their I made em mad (2.09 – 2.14)

And you let some how I could find my way back (2.16 – 2.22)

Hayley lipsyncs the two lines whilst looking upwards towards the sky making a reference to the song, she moves her arms around in a Florence fashion. It changes to a shot of the sky, to show the stars and maybe a meteor going back to change the scene.  

And I heard your heart beating you were in the darkness too so I stayed in the darkness with you. (2.23 – 2.35)

A shot of a chest, with the light inside their chest and it's beating to the rhythm of a heart, and it goes into shallow focus, also change the shots and keep around 1-3 second shots on every sequence. 

The stars, the moon they have all been blown out. (2.38 -2.44)

You’ve left me in the dark (You’ve left me in the dark)   (2.45 – 2.51)

No dawn, no day I’m always in this twilight in the shadow of your heart (2.52 – 3.06)

Ou-oh, Ou-oh, Ou-oh, Ou-oh, Ou-oh, Ou-oh, Ou-oh (longest) (3.07 – 3.20)

Go back to the painting, she enters the museum, and comes across her painting, realising how much she's missed it she lipsyncs 'The stars, the moon they have all blown out' and go abck to the painting, we will have the background people in the painting lipsync and Hayley steps back into the picture singing 'no dawn no day' and she sits back down, showing her like she was at the beginning. 




This post is written by Abbie Smith Georgia Johnson Serena Chu and Thomas Beckensall