"Free" lyrics

"Free"

Sometimes I wonder if I should be medicated
If I would feel better just lightly sedated
The feeling comes so fast and I cannot control it
I'm on fire, but I'm trying not to show it

As it picks me up, puts me down
It picks me up, puts me down
Picks me up, puts me down a hundred times a day
It picks me up, puts me down
Chews me up, spits me out
Picks me up and puts me down

I'm always running from something
I push it back, but it keeps on coming
And being clever never got me very far
Because it's all in my head
"You're too sensitive" they said
I said "Okay, but let's discuss this at the hospital"

Picks me up, puts me down
It picks me up, puts me down
Picks me up, puts me down a hundred times a day
Picks me up, puts me down
Chews me up, spits me out
Picks me up, puts me down

But I hear the music
I feel the beat
And for a moment
When I'm dancing
I am free

I hear the music
I feel the beat
And for a moment
When I'm dancing
I am free
I am free

Is this how it is?
Is this how it's always been?
To exist in the face of suffering and death
And somehow still keep singing?

Oh, like Christ up on a cross
Who died for us, who died for what?
Oh, don't you wanna call it off?

But there is nothing else that I know how to do
But to open up my arms and give it all to you

'Cause I hear the music
I feel the beat
And for a moment
When I'm dancing
I am free
I am free
I am free
I am free


Writer(s): Florence Leontine Mary Welch, Jack Michael Antonoff
"Free" is the fourth single from Florence + The Machine's fifth studio album "Dance Fever". The song was premiered on April 20, 2022.
The music video was filmed in Kyiv, Ukraine in November 2021 on various locations, including Kyiv Crematorium and Baikove Cemetary. Beacues of Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine, Florence + The Machine dedicated this work to "the spirit, creativity and preserverance of our brave Ukrainian friends."
album: "Dance Fever" (2022)
Florence + The Machine - Dance Fever album cover
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