Released: October 28, 2011
Songwriter: Paul Epworth Florence Welch
Producer: Paul Epworth
[Verse 1]
Oh, the river, oh, the river, it's running free
And oh, the joy, oh, the joy it brings to me
But I know it'll have to drown me
Before it can breathe easy
And I've seen it in the flights of birds
I've seen it in you
In the entrails of the animals
The blood running through
But in order to get to the heart of things
Sometimes, you have to cut through
[Pre-Chorus]
But you can, you can
We can, we can
[Chorus]
Just keep following the heartlines on your hand
Just keep following the heartlines on your hand
Keep it up, I know you can
Just keep following the heartlines on your hand
'Cause I am
[Verse 2]
Odyssey on odyssey, and land over land
Creeping and crawling like the sea over sand
Still, I follow heartlines on your hand
And this fantasy, this fallacy, this tumbling stone
Echoes of a city that's long overgrown
Your heart is the only place that I call home
Can I be returned?
[Pre-Chorus]
You can, you can
We can
[Chorus]
Just keep following the heartlines on your hand
Just keep following the heartlines on your hand
Keep it up, I know you can
Just keep following the heartlines on your hand
[Bridge]
What a thing to do
Oh, whoa, what a thing to choose
But know, in some way, I'm there with you
Up against the wall on a Wednesday afternoon
[Chorus]
Just keep following the heartlines on your hand
Just keep following the heartlines on your hand
Keep it up, I know you can
Just keep following the heartlines on your hand
'Cause I am
Oh, the river, oh, the river, it's running free
And oh, the joy, oh, the joy it brings to me
But I know it'll have to drown me
Before it can breathe easy
And I've seen it in the flights of birds
I've seen it in you
In the entrails of the animals
The blood running through
But in order to get to the heart of things
Sometimes, you have to cut through
[Pre-Chorus]
But you can, you can
We can, we can
[Chorus]
Just keep following the heartlines on your hand
Just keep following the heartlines on your hand
Keep it up, I know you can
Just keep following the heartlines on your hand
'Cause I am
[Verse 2]
Odyssey on odyssey, and land over land
Creeping and crawling like the sea over sand
Still, I follow heartlines on your hand
And this fantasy, this fallacy, this tumbling stone
Echoes of a city that's long overgrown
Your heart is the only place that I call home
Can I be returned?
[Pre-Chorus]
You can, you can
We can
[Chorus]
Just keep following the heartlines on your hand
Just keep following the heartlines on your hand
Keep it up, I know you can
Just keep following the heartlines on your hand
[Bridge]
What a thing to do
Oh, whoa, what a thing to choose
But know, in some way, I'm there with you
Up against the wall on a Wednesday afternoon
[Chorus]
Just keep following the heartlines on your hand
Just keep following the heartlines on your hand
Keep it up, I know you can
Just keep following the heartlines on your hand
'Cause I am
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