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Seems that I have been held, in some dreaming state
A tourist in the waking world, never quite awake
No kiss, no gentle word could wake me from this slumber
Until I realize that it was you who held me under
Felt it in my fist, in my feet, in the hollows of my eyelids
Shaking through my skull, through my spine and down through my ribs
No more dreaming of the dead as if death itself was undone
No more calling like a crow for a boy, for a body in the garden
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love with the wrong world
And I could hear the thunder and see the lightning crack
And all around the world was waking, I never could go back
'Cause all the walls of dreaming, they were torn right open
And finally it seemed that the spell was broken
And all my bones began to shake, my eyes flew open
And all my bones began to shake, my eyes flew open
No more dreaming of the dead as if death itself was undone
No more calling like a crow for a boy, for a body in the garden
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love with the wrong world
Snow white's stitching up the circuit boards
Someone's slipping through the hidden door
Snow white's stitching up your circuit board
No more dreaming of the dead as if death itself was undone
No more calling like a crow for a boy, for a body in the garden
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love with the wrong world
Snow white's stitching up the circuit boards
Someone's slipping through the hidden door
Snow white's stitching up your circuit board
Someone's slipping through the hidden door
A tourist in the waking world, never quite awake
No kiss, no gentle word could wake me from this slumber
Until I realize that it was you who held me under
Felt it in my fist, in my feet, in the hollows of my eyelids
Shaking through my skull, through my spine and down through my ribs
No more dreaming of the dead as if death itself was undone
No more calling like a crow for a boy, for a body in the garden
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love with the wrong world
And I could hear the thunder and see the lightning crack
And all around the world was waking, I never could go back
'Cause all the walls of dreaming, they were torn right open
And finally it seemed that the spell was broken
And all my bones began to shake, my eyes flew open
And all my bones began to shake, my eyes flew open
No more dreaming of the dead as if death itself was undone
No more calling like a crow for a boy, for a body in the garden
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love with the wrong world
Snow white's stitching up the circuit boards
Someone's slipping through the hidden door
Snow white's stitching up your circuit board
No more dreaming of the dead as if death itself was undone
No more calling like a crow for a boy, for a body in the garden
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love with the wrong world
Snow white's stitching up the circuit boards
Someone's slipping through the hidden door
Snow white's stitching up your circuit board
Someone's slipping through the hidden door
Lyrics submitted by KatherineKissMe
Track duration: 04:36
"Blinding" as written by Florence Leontine Mary Welch, Paul Epworth
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, EMI Music Publishing
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"Seems that I have been held, in some dreaming state
A tourist in the waking world, never quite awake
No kiss, no gentle word could wake me from this slumber
Until I realize that it was you who held me under"
The whole time I was with him, I was happy and just content with life. I was focused on him that I was slowly losing my focus on my future.
"Felt it in my fist, in my feet, in the hollows of my eyelids
Shaking through my skull, through my spine and down through my ribs"
The pain of losing him is constant and I feel it all over my body. Somedays I can't shake it out of me, he was a part of me.
"No more dreaming of the dead as if death itself was undone
No more calling like a crone for a boy, for a body in the garden
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love with the wrong one"
Despite the pain of losing him being around me constantly I can't let the thought of him and me get in the way of my life. He has to be "dead" to me, like he's gone forever. I know there's a chance we will be back together in a year' time but I can't let that hope cloud my decisions on the future. No more calling for him. No more dreaming about life with him. I can't think like that, I need to focus on my passion.
"And I could hear the thunder and see the lightning crack
All around the world was waking, I never could go back
Cause all the walls of dreaming, they were torn wide open
And finally it seemed that the spell was broken"
My life has been broken and flipped upside down with him gone, but I can't go back to him not now. The "spell" of him has to be broken. I can't let him cloud my mind, every thought has to be about my future.
This is just what the song means to me.
If what you all had was as awesome as what I did, don't throw it away so easily. Maybe he never meant for it to distract you from your future, or his. Maybe you both could help each other realize what you all want out of life. You can chase the future your whole life, and you'll never reach it, because the future you talk about will soon be your "today". Happiness isn't something found in a future that never comes. There is only "now" and "today". Tomorrow is today! If you aren't true to what you want in life right now, what's to say you won't be disappointed with your future?
Just things I've been thinking about... that we should all consider.
For me, it's the darkest songs on Lungs. At first, the song told me about being kept in the dark and untrustworthy people. That was what I fist though when I hear it the first time, but when I actually bought the album and started to listen to in again, it was different. Then I believed it was about death and how death can changes us and how we can never brings the the dead back to life.
And then my opinion changed again, and I loved it more that anything. It was about untrustworthy people and death. But most of all, it was about growing up: the change from child to teenager. It tells the story of how death can sometimes force you to grow up and how growing it's your choice and you have no control. And in the case of this song, holding onto your childhood means you losing touch with the people around you, mainly your age. "It was you who held me under": Our parents. "All around the world was waking, I never could go back." keeping up with every other kid your age, leaving fairytales and games behind. "Because all the walls of dreaming, they were torn wide open, and finally seeing that the spell was broken." Innocence dies.
Now, the context to the song is an analogy on some sort of vague premise of "Eternal Sunshine Of the Spotless Mind." If you haven't seen Eternal Sunshine Of the Spotless Mind, you should. Because it's awesome. And will help you understand this song better.
Seems that I have been held, in some dreaming state
A tourist in the waking world, never quite awake
No kiss, no gentle word could wake me from this slumber
Until I realised that it was you who held me under
For this part, I imagined two things. The first being the baby's thoughts - It has been created into the world, but it has not yet been awoken (born). The baby is slowly becoming conscious within its mother, but at this stage is nowhere near breaking out of the womb (slumber). The only thing keeping the baby in this world is the mother, and it is starting to become aware of the mother's constant presence holding onto it.
Alternatively, this could be the mother's perspective, where she has found out that she's pregnant, and for some reason (say she's under-age or the baby was a mistake) she cannot bring herself to tell the world about the baby, and keeps it to herself and nothing could break into this secret. She also sees the baby as a weight, that's keeping her down and holding her under.
Felt it in my fist, in my feet, in the hollows of my eyelids
Shaking through my skull, through my spine and down through my ribs
I imagine this being how both the mother and baby feel during the abortion. The baby feels this physical pain ripping through and killing it, while the mother feels either relief or guilt. As there is no actual emotion in the lyrics, I imagine it being a mixture of both, or an empty feeling running throughout her body as the baby dies inside her.
No more dreaming of the dead as if death itself was undone
No more calling like a crow for a boy, for a body in the garden
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love with the wrong world
In this, I see the mother's regret after the abortion. She dreams about what her baby would be like if she hadn't gone forward with the abortion, and wishes to reverse death. She also mentions a 'boy' and 'girl'. I think she is referencing the boy as the body in the garden instead of the two being separate thoughts; she's disposed of this baby and left it to ultimately rot in the rubbish. She is dreaming of what could have been her child, and she is so in love with the child she dreams about, and this dream is blinding and overtakes her life, and she refuses to believe that this dream is a fake, wrong world.
And I could hear the thunder and see the lightning crack
All around the world was waking, I never could go back
Cos all the walls of dreaming, they were torn right open
And finally it seemed that the spell was broken
I see this as again being either the mother or baby's view before or during the abortion itself. For the baby, the thunder and lightning is a metaphor for the end of their world and life. Other babies are being born, but this baby will not. The walls of dreaming could be a metaphor for any method of killing a baby during an abortion (Use your imagination! :P). Finally, the baby dies and it's 'spell' of living on earth is over.
Alternatively from the mother's perspective, the thunder and lightning could refer to the physical or more likely mental pain she felt as the baby died, or the fear of being pregnant in the first place. I think the 'world was waking' refers to the tipping point that convinced her to have an abortion (the world was waking to the fact she was pregnant. Perhaps people noticed her putting weight on, for instance) and from that point there was no way she could go back and nothing could change her mind. She thought that she could tear apart the idea of ever being pregnant and discard it like a bad dream. The word 'seems' in the last line implies the idea of false hope. I see the mother believing that everything will return to normal, not anticipating any feeling of guilt.
And all my bones began to shake, my eyes flew open
And all my bones began to shake, my eyes flew open
In this part, I see the mother and baby's thoughts become one on the very last seconds of the baby's life, hence the exact same words repeated. I imagine the first line being the baby shaking and its eyes opening just as it dies and the mother regretting her decision of having an abortion at the exact same time, her eyes metaphorically flying open to the realisation that she is killing this whole life and part of her and her dream. This moment of connection between the two separate worlds sparks the mother to feel indescribable regret, hence the metaphor of the two worlds being torn apart that is evident throughout the song.
Snow White's stitching up the circuit boards
Synapse slipping through the hidden door
Snow White's stitching up the circuit board
Synapse slipping through the hidden door
I think this is displaying the end result of the abortion. I see this as being the mother saying the first two lines, then the baby, that has now died, saying the second part. The mother is creating these fantasies (Snow White) to stitch over the holes in her life and/or mind from the abortion. A synapse (in biological terms) is an area where signals are transmitted inside the body. I think this is saying that the mother has completely broken down and has lost the ability to communicate (Her ability to send signals have been lost through a hidden door).
The second part of this bridge is not completely finished first time round, symbolising the death and for the second time round, the last line is whispered which always makes me think of a ghost taking one last breath.
I know this interpretation is right out there and has as much chance of being correct as me marrying Taylor Swift, but it’s really personal and deep, and would make an epic music video.
Another translation I have is about drugs and drug abuse, but I won’t go into the whole concept of mind control through drug abuse… :P
… Then again, it could just be a song about a rough break up, you never quite know with Florence!