Lorde is continuing her Instagram quest of teasing her new song by posting glimpses of the lyrics. The upcoming single will appear on the soundtrack for “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1″ and she’s shared three bits of it so far.
Three weeks ago Lorde posted an Instagram of the lyrics from the song—”I’m a princess cut from marble, smoother than a storm”—written on a piece of paper.
Now she’s followed up with two more simple, beautiful lyric images. She wrote the second line, “And the scars that mark my body, they’re silver and gold,” on her hand.
And she scrawled the third and latest installment on the sidewalk: “My blood is a flood of rubies, precious stones.”
Lorde is something of a poetic magpie: she’s attracted to shiny things. Her discography is filled with gemstones, like on her smash hit “Team”—”A hundred jewels on throats, a hundred jewels between teeth” or “cutting teeth on diamond rings…diamonds on your timepiece,” from “Royals.” So the gemstone references fall right in line with her past work.
These lyrics seem appropriately based on the life and times of Katniss Everdeen, a pure heroine if there ever was one (sorry had to!) and these new lyrics evoke her resilience under pressure.
Not only is Lorde releasing a new single for the movie, she’s curating the entire soundtrack. These lyrics might be the final teaser because the brand new song is coming tomorrow!
“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1″ opens in theaters on November 21st.
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