The song I chose to analyze was Cosmic Love by Florence and the machine. Before I really looked at the lyrics, I just knew that the song was about love and possibly a relationship ending badly. When I looked up the lyrics, more of what was being said started to make sense and I could clearly see what was going on.
In the beginning she says "A falling star fell from your heart and landed in my eyes. I screamed aloud as they tore threw them and now its left me blind." While reading this, I figured that the person she was in a relationship with did something so wrong to her that it left her devastated. She was in a state where she didn't no how to move on or could not see a way to move on.
The chorus which is said repeatedly is essential to understanding the song. She says "The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out. You left me in the dark. No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight. In the shadow of your heart." After analyzing the chorus, I think she's saying that he was her everything and when he hurt her, everything was completely gone, completely blown away. He left her in the dark, and when she is in the dark she can't see a way to move on. She will always be stuck in this situation.
At one point she says that she could even hear his heartbeat in the darkness and she tries to find it. But then his heartbeat stops and she realizes that she is completely alone in the darkness. I think she wants to go back to the relationship but it seems that he has moved on and now her life is completely taken over by darkness.
The last thing that is said before the chorus is repeated is "I took the stars from our eyes and then I made a map, and knew somehow I could find my way back. Then I heard your heart beating, your were in the darkness to, so I stayed in the darkness with you." She wants to move on so she is trying to have a new outlook on life and find her way back to a good place in life. However, though he hurt her, without her he is in the darkness as well. He doesn't know how to move on with his life either. So she decides that she will stay with him and that they will go through this difficult time together.
