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Genre: Music
Date of upload: Apr 20, 2022 ^^
Rating : 4.947 (2,973/221,602 LTDR)
RYD date created : 2024-04-28T03:06:18.44875Z
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
For anyone who battles debilitating symptoms of complex trauma, this song hits you so viscerally. Trauma traps you inside of your head and you spend every waking second stuck there, almost as if thereās an invisible barrier between you and everyone/everything else. Itās very difficult to feel seen, but every now and then you find that person, movie, artwork, song, etc that makes you feel understood. āFreeā is one of those special occasions. Thank you Florence for making me feel less alone. Love you š
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Lyrics:
Sometimes I wonder if I should be medicated
If I would feel better just slightly sedated
A 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
It chews me up, spits me out
Picks me up, 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
And "You're too sensitive", they said
I said, "Okay, but let's discuss this at the hospital"
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
It 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 (ahh)
And for a moment
When I'm dancing, I am free, I am free
Ooh, ooh
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's 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
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My husband loved your music. He would listen to you on and off but always loved it. Iām sorry he didnāt get the opportunity to listen to this song but Iām sure he would have loved it. He passed away 50 days ago after 33 years of togetherness! ā¤ļø hmmmmmm. Maybe he found this one for me. Miss you Michael ā¤
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The bass lineā¦the heartbeat in the drumsā¦the repetitionā¦this song feels like anxiety personified, nervous stims and panic attacks and bouncy legs and all. As someone with generalised anxiety and PTSD, this song hits. āSometimes I wonder if I should be medicated, if I would feel better just slightly sedatedā and āYouāre too sensitive, they said. I said okay, but letās discuss this at the hospitalā speak to so many of my experiences trying to manage my mood on a second to second basis. Dancing to this song is a form of healing and coping for me already! Anxiety can control our lives sometimes, but we can all have moments of freedom we claim for ourselves.
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This song made me sing and dance for the first time after the war started. I didn't even know it was dedicated to my country, to our people, so when I watched the video and saw this ornament on the wall, which is a national treasure, my heart stopped for a second. Florence, it's magic how healing it is. Huge Ukrainian "Diakuju", freedom is everything! šš
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My best friend died two weeks ago, after years battling depression and anxiety. Lately we were talking about how excited we were about Florence's new music, and this song came up on my Spotify the day his school called me to tell me had died. It's such a powerful gift to be able to listen to this song over and over through my grief knowing how much he would have loved it. I've had anxiety all my life so I know the feeling of being chewed up and just wanting relief. Being reminded of this feeling helps me to forgive him for choosing freedom. Sending love to everyone singing and dancing through their suffering. <3
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This song reminds me every time about the struggles, the pain, the intrusive thoughts, the sense of isolation and numbness that anxiety brings. There is always a light at the end of the tunnel, where we can dance free from all of that: anxiety is not our enemy, it is just a friend too much sensitive who really cares about us, preventing bad outcomes. Keep fighting my dears!
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My mom passed away last December and not too long after that, Spotify recommended this song. It is my grief personified. ["I'm always running from something. I push it back, but it keeps on coming."] It's been nearly a year and I'm still learning to coexist with it ["Is this how it is? Is it how it's always been? To exist in the face of suffering and death and somehow still keep singing.]. However, I don't dance. I run. Running keeps my anxiety in check and it has helped me to process my loss. I run to this song because it has a perfect tempo for raising my heart rate and elevating my endorphins ["I hear the music. I feel the beat. And for a moment when I'm dancing (running), I am free."] The key to surviving loss is to surrender yourself to it and welcome grief ["But there is nothing else that I know how to do, but to open up my arms and give it all to you."]. The emptiness will never go away, but running and music will aways distract me from it ["I AM FREE.]
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@LadyAhro
2 years ago
Iām loving these simultaneously deeply personal and highly artistic songs on this album. Florence has always made songs with this kind of philosophy but Dance Fever feels like a passionate new take on this that weāve not see in a little while.
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