Between Two Lungs Lyrics

[Intro]
Between two lungs, it was released
The breath that carried me
The sigh that blew me forward

[Chorus]
'Cause it was trapped, trapped between two lungs
It was trapped between two lungs
It was trapped between two lungs

[Post-Chorus]
And my running feet could fly
Each breath screaming, "We are all too young to die"

[Verse 1]
Between two lungs, it was released
The breath that passed from you to me
That flew between us as we slept
That slipped from your mouth into mine, it crept
Between two lungs, it was released
The breath that passed from you to me
That flew between us as we slept
That slipped from your mouth into mine, it crept

[Chorus]
'Cause it was trapped, trapped between two lungs
It was trapped between two lungs
[Verse 2]
Gone are the days of begging, the days of theft
No more gasping for a breath
The air has filled me head to toe
And I can see the ground far below
I have this breath and I hold it tight
And I keep it in my chest with all my might
I pray to God this breath will last
As it pushes past my lips, as I gasp

[Outro]
Gasp
Yeah
Ooh, ooh, ooh

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About

Genius Annotation

This is the almost-title track to Florence + The Machine’s debut album. Lungs was later re-released with a special Between Two Lungs edition, solidifying this.

Welch told the story of the song on her website:

That was the first song I ever wrote by myself, so it’s crazy to me that it’s on the album. I was still at art college, but my first guitarist, Matt [Allchin, of The Ludes], had left and I wasn’t sure how I was going to be making music. I was still doing gigs, but I wasn’t sure what was going to happen. It started with the drums, dum, dum. I’ve always been interested in the lulls between notes and the atmosphere that silence creates. It’s all about the build, and the final release – the euphoria that you can get from music. But the silence around it, and the studio hiss – I love studio hiss!
It’s a song being built by someone who has no idea how to play anything, and is making it all up as they go along. The title actually comes from an 80s pulp book I’d found in a second-hand shop. It has some great titles in it. It became about a kiss – the air you share when you’re kissing someone. And the way it fills you up, and you don’t want the bubble to burst.

Speaking to Steve Lamacq, Florence mentions:

That song uses the first piano melody I wrote was for Between Two Lungs, which is literally just an ascending scale.

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