Florence Welch

Lyrics and never-before-seen poetry and sketches from the iconic musician of Florence and the Machine
Songs can be incredibly prophetic, like subconscious warnings or messages to myself, but I often don't know what I'm trying to say till years later. Or a prediction comes true and I couldn't do anything to stop it, so it seems like a kind of useless magic.

Florence is at the peak of her powers, coming into a fully realized self-knowledge, poking fun at her own self-created persona, playing with ideas of identity, masculine and feminine, celebratory, stepping into her place in the iconic pantheon.

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