Test Prep--> Poetry and/or Song Lyrics # 2

"No Light, No Light" by Florence + the Machine

You are the hole in my head
You are the space in my bed
You are the silence in between
What I thought and what I said

You are the night-time fear
You are the morning when it's clear
When it's over you start
You're my head
You're my heart

No light, no light in your bright blue eyes
I never knew daylight could be so violent
A revelation in the light of day
You can't choose what stays and what fades away
And I'd do anything to make you stay

No light, no light, no light
Tell me what you want me to say
Through the crowd I was
Crying out and
In your place there were a thousand other faces

I was disappearing in plain sight
Heaven help me
I need to make it right
You want a revelation
You want to get right
But it's a conversation
I just can't have tonight

You want a revelation
Some kind of resolution
You are the revelation

No light, no light in your bright blue eyes
I never knew daylight could be so violent
A revelation in the light of day
You can't choose what stays and what fades away
And I'd do anything to make you stay

No light, no light, no light
Tell me what you want me to say

But would you leave me,
If I told you what I've done
And would you leave me
If I told you what I've become
'Cause it's so easy,
To sing it to a crowd
But it's so hard, my love
To say it to you, all alone

No light, no light in your bright blue eyes
I never knew daylight could be so violent
A revelation in the light of day,
You can choose what stays and what fades away
And I'd do anything to make you stay

No light, no light, no light
Tell me what you want me to say
You want a revelation
You want to get right
But, it's a conversation
I just can't have tonight
You want a revelation
Some kind of resolution.
You are the revelation.

You want a revelation
You want to get right.
But, it's a conversation,
I just can't have tonight.
You want a revelation
Some kind of resolution
Tell me what you want me to say

      Florence + the Machine are a British group who have been nominated several times for a Grammy and a Brit Award. They released two albums which have been both in the top ten  for consecutive weeks in the U.K, Ireland, USA, etc. Florence Welch is the lead singer with an odd taste for music videos and lyrics. However, I feel that is the reason why she is loved so much by her fans. The song, "No Light, No Light" was in the album Ceremonials, released in October 2011, and this song is about knowing a person who is slowly fading into the darkness.

      To begin with, the song's lyrics are very heavy. In order to comprehend what she is trying to say, one must read each line and sort of decipher the way she uses those words. For example, towards the beginning of the song she says: 

"You are the night-time fear

You are the morning when it's clear

When it's over you start

You're my head
    You're my heart"    

 In these lines she is describing a person by saying that they are the feeling of fear during the night, the morning when it's clear, her head, and her heart. When she says "night-time fear," I think that she is describing the fear that people have during the might-time. There's a reason why people don't do stuff at the middle of the night they might usually do during the day. It's pitch-black outside during the night and there are a lot of people in this world who are afraid of going out in the dark. These situations might also include if you live in a dangerous neighborhood, street, city, town, etc.  So in this line she is saying that the person she is describing is scary or should be feared. In the next line she describes him as "the morning when it's clear". The fact that she used the word clear is that she is saying that she can see right through him. The morning is also known as a time when you just wake up and a person can see right through you. In this line she is describing the person as a transparent person who you can see right through their lies and actions. She then describes him or her as her head and her heart. I think here she is saying that they have her heart and that they are on her mind all the time. This all shows how this person of interest is slowly fading away from her.

      In conclusion, this song seems like it was purposefully written describing somebody who is changing and not for the better but for the worse. The music that goes with this song helps the sort of dark meaning she is trying to convey. It is very heavy and sort of sorrowful or regretful. Most of Florence's music is very rock and soul but this is extremely soulful. Also, the music video helps convey the message too. She uses this African-American kid who does witchcraft throughout the music video. She is also singing and running away from this kid on a roof. Florence + the Machine's music is very creative and deep.