"Drumming Song" is the seventh track from Florence + The Machine's debut album "Lungs", released as the fourth single from the album on 13 September 2009 in the UK.
Lead singer Florence Welch elaborated on the concept of the song on the band's official website: "This is about when there's that electricity between you, and a boy, and it's completely unspoken. When they're standing in front of you and you can't breathe, can't think, can't do anything properly. I'm really geeky - if I like someone, I just become incapable. I remember with my first boyfriend, walking past the window of a pub, seeing he was in there and literally throwing myself on the ground and crawling on the floor because I was so scared! I feel things quite intensely, which is probably why the music is quite intense. If I really like someone, I like someone; if I'm sad, I'm sad. I was listening to a lot of hip hop and I wanted to make something that had that kind of beat to it. To me it's the most forward-thinking music around. No one else is moving forward at such pace! Again, it's really Gothic imagery - fairy tales and Edgar Allan Poe stories. I'd read a lot of Gothic horror when I was a kid."
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