Florence + The Machine – Hospital Beds
Sometimes…you can hear a song a significant number of times in passing, but never really hear it…until you do. That happened to me yesterday with this song.
Florence + The Machine – Hospital Beds
Florence + The Machine - Kiss With A Fist
I was listening to her tunes on spotify (just by searching the name and seeing what came up) and, buried amongst the album tracks and the ‘Rabbit Heart EP’, this song. It’s going to sound melodramatic but from the moment it started to the final resonating strum of the guitar I was captivated. I had to actually turn to my boss and convey to her pretty much the first sentence of this post, although more in the form of a question starting with “have you ever heard a song…?”.
It isn’t on ‘Lungs’, it’s on ‘Kiss With A Fist’ and is, I think, my favourite song of hers.
The vocal is heaped with emotion and exhasperation within the emphatic and powerful sphere that’s so characteristic of her sound and the single acoustic guitar and simple drumbeat add to the raw purity of the track.
I also just discovered (apologies) that it’s actually a re-work of a Cold War Kids tune. Man can she cover with the best of them. (see ‘Postcards from Italy’).
“I got one friend
laying across from me
I did not choose him
He did not choose me”
I’m actually tempted to bin the Arsenal game this evening and pick up my guitar for the first time in weeks…
