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Jul 23rd 2016!⃝You, guys, have it all wrong !
This song is Florence's dedication to T. S. Eliot !
Indeed, as you can notice, the song is a reference to his well-known poem The Waste Land:
• The Waste Land is no love but desire and the " girl so in love " is " in the wrong world ", the " tourist ".
• The " Unreal City " which refers to London in the poem with " King William Street " may be echoing as the " dreaming state " of the tourist " in the waking world, never quite awake " (known and yet called unreal).
• The poem is a conceit of death and so is the song : " No more dreaming of the dead as if death itself was undone ". Furthermore, the " body in the garden " is a straight reference to the poem " That corpse you planted last year in your garden " just after the first reference to the Unreal City ! Coincidence ? I think not !
• Last but not least, Florence mentions the thunder " And I could hear the thunder and see the lightning crack " which is both, in the song and in the poem, a reification of social over interactions. The fifth part of T.S Eliot's poem is called " What the thunder said ".
That's it !
