-Performing "King" from her new album, "Dance Fever,"
please welcome Florence + the Machine!
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-♪ We argue in the kitchen about whether to have children ♪
♪ About the world ending and the scale of my ambition ♪
♪ And how much is art really worth ♪
♪ But The very thing you're best at
is the thing that hurts the most ♪
♪ But you need your rotten heart,
your dazzling pain like diamond rings ♪
♪ You need to go to war to find material to sing ♪
♪ I am no mother ♪
♪ I am no bride ♪
♪ I am king ♪
♪ I need my golden crown of sorrow ♪
♪ My bloody sword to swing ♪
♪ My empty halls to echo with grand self-mythology ♪
♪ I am no mother ♪
♪ I am no bride ♪
♪ I am king ♪
♪ I am no mother ♪
♪ I am no bride ♪
♪ I am king ♪
♪ But a woman is a changeling, always shifting shape ♪
♪ Just when you think you have it figured out,
something new begins to take ♪
♪ What strange claws are these scratching at my skin? ♪
♪ I never knew my killer would be coming from within ♪
♪ I am no mother ♪
♪ I am no bride ♪
♪ I am king ♪
♪ I am no mother ♪
♪ I am no bride ♪
♪ I am king ♪
♪ I need my golden crown of sorrow ♪
♪ My bloody sword to swing ♪
♪ I need my empty halls to echo with grand self-mythology ♪
♪ 'Cause I am no mother ♪
♪ I am no bride ♪
♪ I am king ♪
♪ I am no mother ♪
♪ I am no bride ♪
♪ I am king ♪
♪ I am no mother ♪
♪ I am no bride ♪
♪ I am king ♪
♪ I am no mother ♪
♪ I am no bride ♪
♪ I am king ♪
♪♪
♪ Ohhhh ♪
♪ Oh, ohhhh, oh-ohhhh, oh-oh ♪
♪ Ohhhh, ooh ♪
♪ Oh, ohhhh, oh-ohhhh, oh-oh ♪
♪♪
♪ I was never as good as I always thought I was ♪
♪ But I knew how to dress it up ♪
♪ I was never satisfied ♪
♪ It never let me go ♪
♪ Just dragged me by my hair ♪
♪ And back on with ♪
♪ The show ♪
♪♪
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