Florence Welch Useless Magic Lyrics and Poetry Book

Useless Magic

It's more tan i expected , the deliver arrives 3 days erlier excelent!

It came dirty on the back

Roman

April 6, 2021

Awesome

Good quality) love it

it’s pure quality

magic by florence welch. 🌷✨ the cover is pure magic, great quality and the inside is just full of magic!

nicolenoemi

January 16, 2019

Simply beautiful

I’m a super fan of Florence and this is book is so amazing, full with poems and cute art.

haarp35117

September 12, 2018

Useful Magic

I must have got a special edition. I never seen a book organized in such a way. I enjoy every page of it

Candice Pelletier

September 4, 2018

Florence + The Machine Fan Must Have

Beautiful! Not quite what I expected, but anything Florence gives me is beautiful. I love delving back into the lyrics with her accompanying pictures.

Big and beautiful

Everything a Florence and the Machine fan can expect.

Lorraine Renee

July 10, 2018

Very little insight. Almost nothing new.

Let me start by saying: I'm a huge Florence fan. I've had this book an hour and I've read all of it. 95% of it is song lyrics-- JUST song lyrics-- interspersed with a few polaroids and doodles. There's no commentary on anything, if that's what you're hoping for.

The only section that will include anything you haven't seen is the last sliver of the book, "poetry". Florence writes poems on the occasion that she can't fit something into a song. Some of them are ok. Some of them are... not great. More doodles and hotel notepad images follow.

Now, there is one benefit to having everything right in front of you: you finally get a big, cohesive picture of what this woman has been screaming about for a decade. She has a bad history of relationships. She's seems to be a very toxic person. You can see how this affects her as an artist (and I hope she's getting help and getting better). Her lyrics move from being extremely metaphoric to much more literal across her albums and tell a story of her becoming more open with herself. You don't need the book for this, of course, because the music has been there the whole time. The book just makes the vision a little clearer, especially with the sprinkle of poetry at the end.

Oh! And one more thing! If, like me, you had always been trying to figure out what the flock she was saying in "Seven Devils" (every lyrics site on the internet was just as confused!), you finally have an answer! It is as follows:

You can't keep it out

It's coming through the walls

To devastate your heart

And to take your soul

For what has been done

Cannot be undone

In the eagle's eye

In the evensong

Bottom line:

If you're hoping for some awesome magical inside view into Florence's psyche and what the lyrics mean... This isn't it. Her Facebook page will give you more than this book. But if you want to clarify the big picture and get a better look at her work as an artist, or you just want something for your collection, get the book.