Florence + the Machine - Cosmic Love Meaning

Song Released: 2010

Cosmic Love Lyrics

A falling star fell from your heart and landed in my eyes

I screamed aloud, as it tore through them, and now it's left me blind



The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out

You left me in the dark

No dawn, no day, I'm always...

1. anonymous

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   May 26th 2011 !⃝

   I think this song is sort of like a one-way love song.
   
   She is clearly in love with someone so much that she is blinded. Like how another comment said "her longing for this person is so powerful it's as if it has impaired her senses. The couple are so caught up in how they feel about each other, they've lost touch with the rest of the world."
   But I only believe that this is true toward the end.
   I think the "heartbeat" she hears is the affection he shows towards her. She caught sight of this boy and now it's "left her blind". When she hears the heartbeat, she thinks he's in love with her but she goes out to try to make it happen and he backs off. Now shes sitting alone-helplessly in love-and he realizes that he IS in love with her. She hears that heartbeat again and they are BOTH oblivious to the world because of their love.
   
   Hope this helps! I honestly LOOOOOVE this song!!!
2. anonymous

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   May 16th 2011 !⃝

   I've heard lots of interpretations which say that it's about resigning yourself to staying in an oppressive relationship. From the lyrics, I can see that possibility, but to me the song sounds much too upbeat and hopeful to mean that.
   
   I think, sort of like Howl, this song is about how love can overwhelm. In Howl, lust turned her into a beast; in Cosmic Love, I think that her longig for this person is so powerful it's as if it has impaired her senses. The couple are so caught up in how they feel about each other, they've lost touch with the rest of the world.
   
   It's about the really early stages in a relationship, where nothing is certain, but everything is so intense.