Suzanne

Florence Welch for iHeartRadio

And it's hard to write about being happy 'Cause the older I get I find that happiness is an extremely uneventful subject And there will be no grand choirs to sing No chorus could come in About two people sitting doing nothing But I must confess I did it all for myself I gathered you here to hide from some vast unnameable fear But the loneliness never left me I always took it with me But I can put it down in the pleasure of your company And there will be no grand choirs to sing No chorus will come in And no ballad will be written It will be entirely forgotten And if tomorrow it's all over At least we had it for a moment Oh, darling, things seem so unstable But for a moment we were able to be still And there will be no grand choirs to sing No chorus will come in No ballad will be written This will be entirely forgotten

I feel nervous in a way that can't be named I dreamt last night of a sign that read, "the end of love" And I remember thinking Even in my dreaming it was a good line for a song We're a family pulled from a flood You tore the floorboards up And let the river rush in Not wash away, wash away We were reaching in the dark That summer in New York And it was so far to fall But it didn't hurt at all And let it wash away, wash away And in a moment of joy and fury I threw myself From the balcony like my grandmother so many years before me I've always been in love with you Could you tell it from the moment that I met you? We're a family pulled from a flood You tore the floorboards up And let the river rush in Not wash away, wash away   We were reaching in the dark (wash away) That summer in New York (wash away) And was it so far to fall (wash away) Said it didn't hurt at all And let it wash away, wash away And Joshua came down from the mountain With a tablet in his hands Told me that he loved me, yeah And then ghosted me again We were reaching in the dark That summer in New York And it was so far to fall But it didn't hurt at all I let it wash away, wash away Reaching in the dark (wash away) That summer in New York (wash away) And was it so far to fall (wash away) Said it didn't hurt at all And let it wash away, wash away

I believe in you and in our hearts we know the truth And I believe in love and the darker it gets, the more I do Try and fill us with your hate and we will shine a light And the days will become endless and never, and never turn to night And never, and never turn to night Then it's just too much, I cannot get you close enough A hundred arms, a hundred years, you can always find me here And lord, don't let me break this, let me hold you lightly Give me arms to pray with instead of ones that hold too tightly We have no need to fight We raise our voices and let our hearts take flight Get higher than those planes can fly Where the stars do not take sides Then it's just too much, I cannot get you close enough A hundred arms, a hundred years, you can always find me here And lord, don't let me break this, let me hold you lightly Give me arms to pray with instead of ones that hold too tightly And then it's just too much, the streets, they still run with blood A hundred arms, a hundred years, you can always find me here And lord, don't let me break this, let me hold you lightly Give me arms to pray with instead of ones that hold too tightly   I let him sleep, and as he does My held breath fills the room with love It hurts in ways I can't describe My heart bends and breaks so many, many times And is born again with each sunrise And is born again with each sunrise Funerals were held all over the city The youth bleeding in the square And women raged as old men fumbled and cried We're sorry, we thought you didn't care And how does it feel now you can scratch that itch? How does it feel? Pulled out all your stitches Hubris is a bitch A hundred arms, a hundred years / x2 And then it's just too much, the streets, they still run with blood A hundred arms, a hundred years, you can always find me here And lord, don't let me break this, let me hold you lightly Give me arms to pray with instead of ones that hold too tightly

Oh Patricia, you've always been my North Star And I have to tell you something I'm still afraid of the dark But you take my hand in your hand From you the flowers grow And do you understand with every seed you sow You make this cold world beautiful? You told me all doors are open to the believer I believe her, I believe her, I believe her You told me all doors are open to the believer I believe her, I believe her, I believe her Oh Patricia, you've always been my North Star, oh / x2 You're a 'real man', and you do what you can You only take as much as you can grab with two hands With your big heart, you praise God above But how's it working out for you, honey? Do you feel loved?   She told me all doors are open to the believer I believe her, I believe her, I believe her She told me all doors are open to the believer I believe her, I believe her, I believe her Oh Patricia, you've always been my North Star, oh / x2 I drink too much coffee and I think of you often In a city where reality has long been forgotten Are you afraid? 'Cause I'm terrified But you remind me that it's such a wonderful thing to love It's such a wonderful thing to love / x3 It's such a wonderful thing It's such a wonderful thing to love / x4 It's such a wonderful thing

I'm sorry I ruined your birthday I guess I could go back to university Try and make my mother proud Stop this phase I'm in, she deems dangerous In love The spelling is a problem As is the discipline And I don't think it would be too long Before I was drunk in Camberwell again But this is the only thing I've ever had any faith in Grace, I know you carry us Grace, and it was such a mess Grace, I don't say it enough Grace, you are so loved I'm sorry I ruined your birthday, you had turned 18 And the sunshine hit me and I was behaving strangely All the walls were melting and there were mermaids everywhere Hearts flew from my hands and I could see people's feelings This is the only thing I've ever had any faith in Grace, I know you carry us Grace, and it was such a mess Grace, I don't say it enough Grace, you are so loved   And you, you were the one I treated the worst Only because you loved me the most We haven't spoken in a long time I think about it sometimes I don't know who I was back then And I hope and hope I would never treat anyone like that again This is the only thing I've ever had any faith in Grace, I know you carry us Grace, and it was such a mess Grace, I don't say it enough Grace, you are so loved Grace, I know you carry us Grace, and it was such a fucking mess Grace, I don't say it enough Grace, you are so loved This is the only thing I've ever had any faith in / x4

How deeply are you sleeping or are you still awake? A good friend told me you've been staying out so late Be careful, oh, my darling, oh, be careful what it takes From what I've seen so far, the good ones always seem to break And I was screaming at my father and you were screaming at me And I can feel your anger from way across the sea And I was kissing strangers, I was causing such a scene Oh, the heart it hides such unimaginable things Grab me by my ankles, I've been flying for too long I couldn't hide from the thunder in a sky full of song And I want you so badly, but you could be anyone I couldn't hide from the thunder in a sky full of song Hold me down, I'm so tired now Aim your arrow at the sky Take me down, I'm too tired now Leave me where I lie And I can tell that I'm in trouble when that music starts to play In a city without seasons, it keeps raining in LA I feel like I'm about to fall, the room begins to sway And I can hear the sirens but I cannot walk away Grab me by my ankles, I've been flying for too long I couldn't hide from the thunder in a sky full of song And I want you so badly, but you could be anyone I couldn't hide from the thunder in a sky full of song Hold me down, I'm so tired now Aim your arrow at the sky Take me down, I'm too tired now Leave me where I lie I thought I was flying but maybe I'm dying tonight / x2 And I thought I was flying but maybe I'm dying tonight / x2 Hold me down, I'm so tired now Aim your arrow at the sky (Shoot, shoot, shoot) Take me down, I'm too tired now Leave me where I lie (Fire) / x2  

You need a big god Big enough to hold your love You need a big god Big enough to fill you up You keep me up at night To my messages, you do not reply You know I still like you the most The best of the best and the worst of the worst Well, you can never know The places that I go I still like you the most You'll always be my favourite ghost You need a big god Big enough to hold your love You need a big god Big enough to fill you up Sometimes I think it's gettin' better And then it gets much worse Is it just part of the process? Well, Jesus Christ, it hurts Though I know I should know better Well, I can make this worse Is it just part of the process? Well, Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, it hurts Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, it hurts   You need a big god Big enough to hold your love You need a big god Big enough to fill you up Shower your affection, let it rain on me And pull down the mountain, drag your cities to the sea Shower your affection, let it rain on me Don't leave me on this white cliff Let it slide down to the, slide down to the sea Slide down to the, slide down to the sea

When I go home alone I drive past the place where I was born And the places that I used to drink Young and drunk and stumbling in the street Outside the Joiners Arms like foals unsteady on their feet With the art students and the boys in bands High on E and holding hands with someone that I just met I thought "it doesn't get Better than this There can be nothing better than this Better than this" And we climbed onto the roof, the museum And someone made love in the ground And I'd forgotten my name And the way back to my mother's house With your black cool eyes and your bitten lips The world is at your fingertips It doesn't get better than this What else could be better than this? Oh, don't you know I have seen I have seen the fields aflame And everything I ever did Was just another way to scream your name   Over and over and over and over again / x2 And we're just children wanting children of our own I wanted space to watch things grow But did I dream too big? Do I have to let it go? What if one day there is no such thing as snow? Oh God, what do I know? And I don't know anything Except that green is so green And there's a special kind of sadness that seems to come with spring Oh, don't you know I have seen I have seen the fields aflame And everything I ever did Was just another way to scream your name Over and over and over and over again / x2 Oh, don't you know that I have seen I have seen the fields aflame But everything I ever did Was just another way to scream your name

Ooh, ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh At seventeen, I started to starve myself I thought that love was a kind of emptiness And at least I understood then the hunger I felt And I didn't have to call it loneliness We all have a hunger / x4 Tell me what you need, oh, you look so free The way you use your body, baby, come on and work it for me Don't let them get you down, you're the best thing I've seen We never found the answer but we knew one thing We all have a hunger / x8 And it's Friday night and it's kicking in And I'm getting dressed, they're gonna crucify me Oh, but you and all your vibrant youth How could anything bad ever happen to you? You make a fool of death with your beauty, and for a moment I thought that love was in the drugs But the more I took, the more it took away And I could never get enough I thought that love was on the stage You give yourself to strangers You don't have to be afraid And then it tries to find a home with people, oh, and I'm alone Picking it apart and staring at your phone We all have a hunger / x4 Tell me what you need, oh, you look so free The way you use your body, baby, come on and work it for me Don't let it get you down, you're the best thing I've seen We never found the answer but we knew one thing We all have a hunger / x8 And it's Friday night and it's kicking in And I'm getting dressed, they're gonna crucify me Oh, you and all your vibrant youth How could anything bad ever happen to you? You make a fool of death with your beauty, and for a moment I forget to worry

The show was ending and I had started to crack Woke up in Chicago and the sky turned black And you're so high, you're so high, you had to be an angel And I'm so high, I'm so high, I can see an angel I hear your heart beating in your chest The world slows 'till there's nothing left Skyscrapers look on like great, unblinking giants In those heaviest days in June When love became an act of defiance Hold on to each other / x4 And you were broken-hearted and the world was too And I was beginning to lose my grip And I have always held it loosely But this time I admit I felt it really start to slip And choirs sang in the street And I would come to you To watch the television screen in your hotel room Always down to hide with you   Hold on to each other / x4 You're so high, you're so high / x3 You had to be an angel I'm so high, I'm so high / x3 I can see an angel