It's Always Darkest Before The Dawn....Lyric Day

I last did a lyric day in December 2011. So I've listened to a fair few songs since then :P It was a little hard therefore to pick one for my first lyric day since my impromptu blogging hiatus. But we're back with a bang.

I first heard this song on the episode of How I Met Your Mother and immediately loved it. I listened to it a lot when I was pregnant - Baby45 used to kick lots whenever I played it and after he was born it always soothed him :) I think it's such an uplifting, redemptive song, even though the lyrics are quite dark in places. It always makes me feel stronger, that I can carry on. When I was so sick and tired of being pregnant and feeling messed up and hormonal it kept me sane and positive.

It also reminds me a lot of my sister, inexplicably - I think just because she's a fan of F+TM. So here you go.....

Florence + The Machine - Shake It Out

Regrets collect like old friends
Here to relive your darkest moments
I can see no way, I can see no way
And all of the ghouls come out to play

And every demon wants his pound of flesh
But I like to keep some things to myself
I like to keep my issues drawn
It's always darkest before the dawn

And I've been a fool and I've been blind
I can never leave the past behind
I can see no way, I can see no way
I'm always dragging that horse around

Our love is questioned, such a mournful sound
Tonight I'm gonna bury that horse in the ground
So I like to keep my issues drawn
But it's always darkest before the dawn

Shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, ooh whoa
Shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, ooh whoa
And it's hard to dance with a devil on your back
So shake him off, oh whoa

And I am done with my graceless heart
So tonight I'm gonna cut it out and then restart
'Cause I like to keep my issues drawn
It's always darkest before the dawn

Shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, ooh whoa
Shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, ooh whoa
And it's hard to dance with a devil on your back
So shake him off, oh whoa

And it's hard to dance with a devil on your back
And given half the chance would I take any of it back
It's a fine romance but it's left me so undone
It's always darkest before the dawn

Oh whoa, oh whoa...

And I'm damned if I do and I'm damned if I don't
So here's to drinks in the dark at the end of my road
And I'm ready to suffer and I'm ready to hope
It's a shot in the dark aimed right at my throat
'Cause looking for heaven, found the devil in me
Looking for heaven, found the devil in me
Well what the hell I'm gonna let it happen to me, yeah

Shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, ooh whoa
Shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, ooh whoa
And it's hard to dance with a devil on your back
So shake him off, oh whoa

Shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, ooh whoa
Shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, ooh whoa
And it's hard to dance with a devil on your back
So shake him off, oh whoa

Thank you and goodnight,

Stupidgirl has left the building

PS In case you missed it, here are the previous Lyric Days and....here is the blogpost from last week