Florence + The Machine Contribute “Wish You Were Here” To ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children’ Soundtrack: Listen

Katherine Barner | August 25, 2016 4:28 pm

Florence + The Machine contribute dreamy track, “Wish That You Were Here,” to the Tim Burton-directed movie Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children.

The song clocks in at just under seven minutes and is the kind of number you’d expect to be featured in a Burton film. The track is heartbreaking yet enchanting, as Florence Welch belts out the euphoric hook: “I never minded being on my own/Then something broke me and I wanted to go home/ To be where you are.”

“Having been on tour, I’ve lived in a sort of magical time bubble, where the days almost blend together,” Welch said of the tune in a presser. “It’s amazing, but it comes at a cost — a cost of leaving the people you love behind for a year or two. You kind of feel like if you could sing a song into the wind, maybe the wind could take it to them in a way that you can’t with a text or a call. You just want to send your love in a different way, in a way to somehow reach the unreachable.”

Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children is out on September 30.

Listen below.

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