All This And Heaven Too

by Florence + The Machine

From the album: Ceremonials

Track 11 of 16 on Ceremonials (2011).

Duration: 04:05

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Lyrics for All This And Heaven Too

And the heart is hard to translate It has a language of its own It talks in tongues and quiet sighs And prayers and proclamations In the grand days of great men and the smallest of gestures In short, shallow gasps 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 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 'Cause I've been scrawling it forever, but it never makes sense to me at all And it talks to me on tiptoes And it sings to me inside It cries out in the darkest night And breaks in the morning light 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 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 'Cause I've been scrawling it forever, but it never makes sense to me at all 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 'Cause I've been scrawling it forever, but it never makes sense to me at all No words and poor language It doesn't deserve such treatment And all of my stumbling phrases never amounted To anything worth this feeling All this heaven never could describe such a feeling as I'm healing Words were never so useful So I was screaming out a language that I never knew existed before

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More from Ceremonials

  1. Only If For A Night
  2. Shake It Out
  3. What The Water Gave Me
  4. Never Let Me Go
  5. Breaking Down
  6. Lover To Lover
  7. No Light, No Light
  8. Seven Devils
  9. Heartlines
  10. Spectrum (Say My Name)
  11. All This And Heaven Too
  12. Leave My Body
  13. Remain Nameless
  14. Strangeness And Charm
  15. Bedroom Hymns
  16. What The Water Gave Me - Demo