Released: October 28, 2011
Songwriter: Isabella Summers Florence Welch
Producer: Paul Epworth
[Verse 1]
And the heart is hard to translate
It has a language of its own
It talks in tongues and quiet sighs
In prayers and proclamations
In the grand deeds of great men and the smallest of gestures
In short shallow gasps
[Pre-Chorus]
But with all my education I can’t seem to command it
And the words are all escaping, and coming back all damaged
And I would put them back in poetry if I only knew how
I can’t seem to understand it
[Chorus]
And I would give all this and heaven too
I would give it all if only for a moment
That I could just understand the meaning of the word you see
Because I’ve been scrawling it forever but it never makes sense to me at all
[Verse 2]
And it talks to me in tiptoes
And it sings to me inside
It cries out in the darkest night and breaks in the morning light
[Pre-Chorus]
But with all my education I can’t seem to command it
And the words are all escaping, and coming back all damaged
And I would put them back in poetry if I only knew how
I can’t seem to understand it
[Chorus]
And I would give all this and heaven too
I would give it all if only for a moment
That I could just understand the meaning of the word you see
Because I’ve been scrawling it forever but it never makes sense to me at all
[Chorus]
And I would give all this and heaven too
I would give it all if only for a moment
That I could just understand the meaning of the word you see
Because I’ve been scrawling it forever, but it never makes sense to me at all
[Outro]
No words
Poor language
It doesn’t deserve such treatment
And all my stumbling phrases never amounted
To anything worth this feeling
All this heaven never could describe such a feeling as I'm hearing
Words were never so useful
So I was screaming out a language that I never knew existed before
And the heart is hard to translate
It has a language of its own
It talks in tongues and quiet sighs
In prayers and proclamations
In the grand deeds of great men and the smallest of gestures
In short shallow gasps
[Pre-Chorus]
But with all my education I can’t seem to command it
And the words are all escaping, and coming back all damaged
And I would put them back in poetry if I only knew how
I can’t seem to understand it
[Chorus]
And I would give all this and heaven too
I would give it all if only for a moment
That I could just understand the meaning of the word you see
Because I’ve been scrawling it forever but it never makes sense to me at all
[Verse 2]
And it talks to me in tiptoes
And it sings to me inside
It cries out in the darkest night and breaks in the morning light
[Pre-Chorus]
But with all my education I can’t seem to command it
And the words are all escaping, and coming back all damaged
And I would put them back in poetry if I only knew how
I can’t seem to understand it
[Chorus]
And I would give all this and heaven too
I would give it all if only for a moment
That I could just understand the meaning of the word you see
Because I’ve been scrawling it forever but it never makes sense to me at all
[Chorus]
And I would give all this and heaven too
I would give it all if only for a moment
That I could just understand the meaning of the word you see
Because I’ve been scrawling it forever, but it never makes sense to me at all
[Outro]
No words
Poor language
It doesn’t deserve such treatment
And all my stumbling phrases never amounted
To anything worth this feeling
All this heaven never could describe such a feeling as I'm hearing
Words were never so useful
So I was screaming out a language that I never knew existed before
Ceremonials (Digital Deluxe Version)
- Seven Devils
- Leave My Body
- Strangeness and Charm (Bonus Track)
- Landscape (Demo)
- Breath of Life (Bonus Track)
- Take Care (Bonus Track)
- Spectrum (Say My Name) [Calvin Harris Remix]
- What the Water Gave Me (Demo)
- Heartlines (Acoustic)
- Shake It Out (Acoustic)
- All This and Heaven Too
- Breaking Down
- Spectrum
- Shake It Out
- Lover to Lover
- What the Water Gave Me
- Remain Nameless (Bonus Track)
- Bedroom Hymns (Bonus Track)
- Heartlines
- Never Let Me Go
- Only If For A Night
- No Light, No Light
- Breaking Down (Acoustic)
- Ceremonials (2011)
- Ceremonials (Digital Deluxe Version) (2011)
- Jenny of Oldstones (Game of Thrones)
- Dog Days Are Over
- Hunger
- Shake It Out
- Delilah
- Sky Full of Song
- Big God
- Never Let Me Go
- Cosmic Love
- Wish That You Were Here
- Patricia
- What Kind of Man
- Ship to Wreck
- The End of Love
- Seven Devils
- Queen of Peace
- 100 Years
- June
- How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
- You’ve Got the Love
- Grace
- Over the Love
- Third Eye
- South London Forever