Falling Free Lyrics

[Verse 1]
When I move a certain way
I feel an ache I'd kept at bay

A hairline break that’s taking hold
A metal that I thought was gold

[Pre-Chorus]
And pure, so sure, I'd struck a vein
I wanted you to feel the same
So when you did ignite a spark
Rescue me from all this dark
See our hearts are intertwined
Then I'm free, free of mine
I'm falling free

[Chorus]
And see our hearts are intertwined
And then I'm free, I'm free of mine
And deep and pure, our hearts aligned
And then I'm free, I'm free of mine

[Verse 2]
When I raise a certain wing
And crawl beneath that growing thing

It throws a shadow over time
And keeps yours falling next to mine
[Breakdown]
I'm falling
I'm falling
I'm falling free
I'm falling
I'm falling
I'm falling free

[Chorus]
Deep and pure, our hearts align
And then I'm free, I'm free of mine
When I let loose the need to know
Then we're both free, we're free to go

[Outro]
Deep and pure, our hearts align
And then I'm free, I'm free of mine
I let loose the need to know
Then we're both free, we're free to go

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About

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“Falling Free” is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Madonna for her twelfth studio album MDNA.

The song was described by music critic Robert Christgau as “deadly-dreamy” and uses synths, piano, and violin. Its subject material is the breakup of Madonna’s marriage to Guy Ritchie (as with several other songs on MDNA), and is by far the most sorrowful song on the record. Madonna expressed in a 2015 interview that she would have liked to have been able to release it as a single.

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What did Madonna say about "Falling Free"?
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Madonna:

I have to be completely involved in the production. I like the contrast. I like to have something that is just slammed with noise and sound and bass and drum, sensory overload and then create something like Falling Free, which is stripped back and all you can really hear is my voice and the lyrics. Sometimes I sit down on a guitar and start strumming chords and things come out. Sometimes people bring a song to me that has a title, for instance, or an idea of a lyric and I take it and kind of re-shape it, re-word it and make it my own. It comes in so many different ways, it’s always been that way.

–via MadonnaRama (2012)

“Falling Free” collaborator William Orbit:

That was a real delight to do. I know Madonna really enjoyed singing it. She had a terrible cold the day she sang it actually, but she threw herself into it,“ he said. "Madonna sang that one beautifully and I was excited. A friend of mine, Laurie Mayer, wrote that beautiful melody. I think it was really special and different. The more ballads [Madonna] does, the better. Because no one can do ballads [the way she does]. She feels from the heart.

–via MTV (2012)

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