If you could only see the beast you've made of me
I held it in but now it seems you've set it running free
Screaming in the dark, I howl when we're apart
Drag my teeth across your chest to taste your beating heart
My fingers claw your skin, try to tear my way in
You are the moon that breaks the night for which I have to howl
My fingers claw your skin, try to tear my way in
You are the moon that breaks the night for which I have to
Howl, howl
Howl, howl
Now there's no holding back, I'm making to attack
My blood is singing with your voice, I want to pour it out
The saints can't help me now, the ropes have been unbound
I hunt for you with bloody feet across the hallowed ground
Like some child possessed, the beast howls in my veins
I want to find you, tear out all of your tenderness [ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/f/florence_and_the_machine/howl.html ]
And howl, howl
Howl, howl
Be careful of the curse that falls on young lovers
Starts so soft and sweet and turns them to hunters
Hunters, hunters, hunters
Hunters, hunters, hunters
The fabric of your flesh, pure as a wedding dress
Until I wrap myself inside your arms I cannot rest
The saints can't help me now, the ropes have been unbound
I hunt for you with bloody feet across the hallowed ground
And howl
Be careful of the curse that falls on young lovers
Starts so soft and sweet and turns them to hunters
A man who's pure of heart and says his prayers by night
May still become a wolf when the autumn moon is bright
If you could only see the beast you've made of me
I held it in but now it seems you've set it running free
The saints can't help me now, the ropes have been unbound
I hunt for you with bloody feet across the hallowed ground
To me, the song is about lust and desire, and trying to fight it. It's as if the character the lyrics describe explains that she feels likes a monster and hates the person that made her feel this way, even though she wants to find him.
by Unregistered on May 11th 2012 10:09 pm
She's a werewolf... Simple as that. But the song is awesome and florence can do just about anything
by Unregistered on May 8th 2012 5:05 am
Dat is al abowt dem werewolfs innit becoz its talkin abowt hw she has her period wuns a munth
by Unregistered on May 1st 2012 10:40 pm
Passionate love making. The 'howl' is the passionate moan.
"be careful of the curse that falls on young lovers
Starts so soft and sweet and turns them to hunters
Hunters, hunters, hunters
Hunters, hunters, hunters"
The progression of that passion. This happens when a child is sheltered from sexuality. The initial reaction between two young lovers it tentative, and innocent. The closer the connection, the more passionate and possessive that love becomes (especially new, young love, or first love). It results into this animalistic need to be as close as possible, to posses all of that person. Wanting to get as much of the delicious love they've gotten the taste of. Like an insatiable child to sugar.
A direct story would be a religious girl, taught to avoid the passion of this love, but then succumbs to it, then is addicted to it.
"if you could only see the beast you've made of me(he taught her passion)
I held it in but now it seems you've set it running free(she couldn't help but to let go of her religious teaching for his)
The saints can't help me now, the ropes have been unbound (her religious beliefs about sex are gone. )
I hunt for you with bloody feet across the hallowed ground (now that she's hooked to his passion-sex- she's tainted,bloody. Where he resides is her new sacred, or hollowed, ground. That's where she searches, hunts, for him. "
by Unregistered on Apr 25th 2012 7:30 pm
Obsessed with this song! Can't stop listening to it!
by Unregistered on Apr 21st 2012 8:08 am
Also "if you could only see the beast you've made of me" tthe first line in the song. *same as bellow*
by Unregistered on Apr 17th 2012 5:41 am
Wanting revenge on the man that hurt you. Things change over time. Like love. And in this instance, it changed for the worse for her.
by Unregistered on Apr 16th 2012 5:47 pm
Love turns to obsession. Obsession turns to madness.
by Unregistered on Apr 12th 2012 10:06 am
That love changes who you are. You have to be careful because when you are in blind love, you are capable of thing you have never done in your whole life...
by Unregistered on Apr 3rd 2012 3:40 pm
Itīs about how a love can make a person be free and love with a lot of passion , that she want every part of him with lust and possesives thoughts but when time continue, both the passion and the lust is starting to becoming more strong and possesive than before , always wanting to be with that person, and wanting somthing more and rude like marking him as her own, and to be marked .
Like the wolves