So as I’m sitting and avoiding my homework, I happen to be listening/ watching this video by Florence and The Machine. The lyrics are weird and cryptic, which suits her because Florence Welch is also pretty weird and cryptic. (see proof below)

Here’s some of the lyrics which made me make a confused face at my computer screen:

Happiness, hit her like a train on a track
Coming towards her, stuck still no turning back
She hid around corners and she hid under beds
She killed it with kisses and from it she fled
With every bubble she sank with a drink
And washed it away down the kitchen sink

This is kind of weird ’cause it makes me think that Florence says happiness is like getting hit by a train, and “she” (whoever this mysterious depressed girl is) is running away from happiness. So what’s up with this girl?

Freud says:

We have decided to consider pleasure and ‘ pain’ in relation to the quantity of excitation present in the psychic life—and not confined in any way—along such lines that ‘ pain’ corresponds with an increase and pleasure with a decrease in this quantity.

I don’t pretend to understand Freud, but I’ll just assume he’s saying “yo, whatever makes you the most excited about life is considered pain”. This seems sort of skewed. But maybe he’s talking about the same girl Florence and The Machine was singing about, someone who runs from happiness. Truth is, Freud always struck me as sort of a weird guy. So maybe he’s talking about people who take pleasure in pain. But then does that make it pain, or pleasure because you enjoy it? Just wondering…