Drumming Song

Most of Lungs was written while Florence Welch the front woman and main person of Florence + the Machine was in the throes of a relationship break-up. She told The Independent June 27, 2009 that it was the first time that her heart had ever been broken: "It was a relief. I thought, 'I've always had it coming, but now I know it will never be this bad again.' It was a sad, manic time, but that sense of complete abandonment was intoxicating, too, like riding your bicycle too fast with your eyes closed." However once the record was completed, Welch and her boyfriend got back together. She admitted to The Independent that this made things difficult as, "half the album is about breaking up with him!" She added that this song, "is about seeing your ex and it feeling like something is physically attacking you. We listen to it now and I'm like, 'Erm... Sorry about that.'"

Welch wrote this song after listening to lots of hip-hop.

Welch plays the drums herself on this track. She told Mojo magazine August 2009: "I f---ing love the drums. I want to be a drummer in someone else's band. If you know anybody looking for a drummer, hook me up. I'll find the time. The happiness I get from singing, I get from behind a drum kit as well."