Useless Magic Quotes

“I’m sorry you couldn’t find me. I have been in the woods. I put myself there because I couldn’t be good. I have been running with foxes and running with crows and I have found myself a home where no one goes.”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“Maybe I’ve always been more comfortable in chaos.”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“Songs can be incredibly prophetic, like subconscious warnings or messages to myself, but I often don't know what I'm trying to say till years later. Or a prediction comes true and I couldn't do anything to stop it, so it seems like a kind of useless magic.”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“To give yourself over to another body
That’s all you want really
To be out of your own and consumed by another
To swim inside the skin of your lover
Not have to breathe
Not have to think
But you can’t live on love
And salt water’s no drink
We're dying of thirst so we feast on each other
The sea is still our violent mother
The blood round here pours down like water
Each wave a lamb lead to the slaughter
And like children that she just can’t teach
We break, and break, and break
And break ourselves upon the beach- Body of Water”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“I like people who've seen some darkness
The haunted ones.
I like people who don't claim to know what love is
The honest ones.”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“But you have to satisfy the monster. The monster has loved you for longer than anyone else.”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“I guess I won't write poetry
I'll just stare at my phone for fucking eternity”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“I make songs to tie people to me
With a ribbon of fantasy around their necks
Such a beautiful bow.
That I hold in my fist
And I will not let go.”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“So you start to take pieces of your own life.

And somewhat selfishly
Other people's lives
And feed them to the song
At what cost
This wondrous creature
That becomes more precious to you
Than the people that you took from

How awful

To make human sacrifices
A late night conversation
A private thought
All placed upon the altar

But you have to satisfy the monster
The monster has loved you for longer
Than anyone else.”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“Cause I'm gonna be free
and I'm gonna be fine
But maybe not tonight”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“That’s all you want really
To be out of your own and consumed by another
To swim inside the skin of your lover”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“You saw the stars out in front of you
Too tempting not to touch”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“I am teaching myself how to be free”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“I don't know what makes a song a song and a poem a poem: they have started to bleed into each other at this stage.

You can have everything.”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“You’ll always be my favorite ghost”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“My mind has claws and sets of teeth if left unchecked it will eat and eat

-Depressive Pacman”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“I wish I had more of your staunch American character,
Strong, bold, and unflinching, like the desert or a New York skyscraper.
But I am more like the English weather
Unpredictable and ever changing,
Prone to downpours.
Battered by sudden winds - thin skinned, eye-bagged and always cold,
Proud and leaking.”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“I could fall in love with a plastic bag if it paid me some attention”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“Holy water cannot help you now
See, I have to burn your kingdom down
And no rivers and no lakes can put the fire out
I'm gonna raise the stakes
I'm gonna smoke you out”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“I have been bleeding out in public
For so long
And all I know is, all I have been taught
is that it is
Both
Not good enough
And still, somehow
Too much”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“You make a fool of death with your beauty”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“When did you become something
I couldn’t write about,
Did you become real to me?”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“You say you’ve found heaven but you can’t find God”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“I like to think at least things can't get any worse.”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“Rotting like a wreck on the ocean floor. Sinking like a siren that can’t swim anymore.”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“The saints can't help me now, the ropes have been unbound”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“Mother, make me
Make me a song so sweet
Heaven trembles
Falling at my feet”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“But as the water fills my mouths
It couldn’t wash the echoes out
But as the water fills my mouths
It couldn’t wash the echoes out”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“And we’re just children wanting children of our own
I want a space to watch things grow
But did I dream too big, so I have to let it go”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“And the air was full of various storms and saints
Parading in the street
As the banks begin to break
And I’m in the throes of it
Somewhere in the belly of the beast”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry