 Genius Lyrics
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Ben Howard – Keep Your Head Up
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[Verse 1] / I spent my time watchin' / The spaces that have grown between us / And I cut my mind on second best / The scars that come with the greenness / And I gave my eyes to the
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Ben Howard – Black Flies
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“Black Flies” is about a friendship Ben once had that ended up fading into obscurity. While listening to the song you can tell it has struck a chord deep within him; containing
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Ben Howard – Jessica
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[Verse 1] / Young girl of only 19 / Beautiful smile / Looked just like her dream / Her parents were so proud / Came from the southern counties / Deep Blue eyes / Saw more than I
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Ben Howard – Conrad
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[Verse 1] / Climb out / Out to where you see / The curl of the world / We're alone / Just like you said / Cold, cold world / Life lasts / Only one thing left to roll / Last year to
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Ben Howard – Cloud Nine
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Shadows on the water / From a memory that turns inside / From the last time I saw you happier / Than I've seen you in a long time / And all these faces, oh how they adore you
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Ben Howard – Soldiers
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[Verse 1] / Oh, you watch me steady, you / Watch me with such a quiet sincerity / And you hold me heavy, you / Hold me like I was born to be held / And the light comes in here
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Ben Howard (Ft. Ayla Schafer & Jonny Pryor) – Ocean Song
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Been here staring, staring at the rain to long now / Winter coal burning at my toes / Seems like everything, everything I do is going wrong somehow / Feeling blue everywhere that I
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Ben Howard – Promise
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[Verse 1] / Meet me there / With bundles of flowers / We'll wade through the hours / Of cold, winter / She'll howl at the walls / Tearing down doors / Of time, shelter, as we go
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Ben Howard – To Be Alone
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I don't need nobody / No, I / I don't need nobody / Oh, I don't need nobody / To be alone / To be alone / And in the darkness a shallow poison / It has grown / I bite my tongue
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My father he told me what goes around / Comes, comes around again
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The phrase “what goes around, comes around” alludes to the idea of karma; what you do will come back to you. In this case, if you cheat people around you, you’ll be cheated later.
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They haunt me like orchids in a graveyard here
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Orchids are often flowers associated with life, and its juxtaposition to graveyard is meant to be ironic.
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Ben Howard – Richmond Avenue
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[Verse 1] / Holding your hand / Cut grass heaven / Walk in the park / Sky is the limit, pa / High lives in high places / Wish it could last forever / You had your leather coat on
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Ben Howard – Little Plant
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[Verse 1] / Oh, little plant / You've got no chance / Oh, little plant / You've seen the work / You've danced the dance / Front line fodder / For someone else's romance / Eye for
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Ben Howard – Unfurling
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Remember / When the apex moved / And the body shook / I remember you / Unfurling / True / You done alright for yourself / Stuck out, swung in the gap / At the spaces between us
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Ben Howard – Moonraker
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[Verse 1] / Out of town for the afternoon / Highline flyer, blue air / Up above Guadarrama Canyon / Ground below, jelly fear / Some people dance at the altar / Some people worship
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Ben Howard – Oats in the Water
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Oats in The Water was written in Morocco while Ben was fighting a fever. The song has been featured on an episode of The Walking Dead, The Following and on the trailer for the game
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Ben Howard – The Fire (Bonus Track)
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Lie here till your world stops spinning round / Lie near me till the birds start singing out / Come, show what it is to be warm / Be my shelter and I'll be your storm / Come, lie
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Oh hey, I wasn't listening
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Almost every stanza starts off with a greeting of either “hey” or “hello,” but these two different greetings differ in context.
“Oh hey” is more of an offhand saying that shows that the narrator was caught off guard and not paying attention/listening – possibly because he’s too used to them.
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Ben Howard – Time Is Dancing
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[Verse 1] / Wrapped up in dissonance / I'm sorry that I just walked away / Lost in the insignificance of mine / I had no words to say / Now I am better / I implore you to say it
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And you showed me hope amidst the hellequins in spring
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A harlequin is a jester, here representing the other girls that clowned around with his emotions while this girl was there for him and gave him hope.
Harlequins are also a type of flower, which Ben draws upon with his springtime setting, when flowers are blooming.
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Ben Howard – Walking Backwards
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[Verse 1] / Some days I'm walking backwards / Truth be told I don't mind / Some days I'm walking backwards / Truth be told I don't mind / [Verse 2] / Some days I'm almost there
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Ben Howard – Couldn't Make It Up
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[Verse 1] / Could not / Could not make it up / Sitting in the garden / Listening to the radio / Cinder forming into great clouds / What's it to me anyhow? / Wish I knew / How to
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Ben Howard – In Dreams
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[Verse 1] / Always a riddle in the world she said / Always a riddle inside my head / Always a thing of wonder / The way we come to be / Oh it's a big old place for me / Yeah it's a
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Ben Howard – Nica Libres At Dusk
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“Nica Libres At Dusk” the third single, which serves as the opening track to Ben Howard’s upcoming third Studio album Noonday Dream, made its debut as The Hottest Record via Annie
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Ben Howard – The Fear
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[Verse 1] / My, my cold hearted child / Tell me how you feel / Just a blade in the grass / A spoke unto the wheel / My, my cold hearted child / Tell me where it's all gone / Oh the
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And the world void of Petrov, our savior / We are taught to savour / Everyone else's failures / Endlessly
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Stanislav Petrov is known as “the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war” by not sending a nuclear missile at the US after a satelite malfunction. The malfunction was someone’s elses failure and the fact that he did not savor it saved the world.
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Ben Howard – Life In The Time
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[Verse 1] / How was I to know? / Kinship there in the reverie / It’s a climbing wind / We go through / Two by two / Not asking why / How was I to sing? / Happens all of the time
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Ben Howard – Spirit
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[Verse 1] / Purple flowers / Azure June / You and me walking / Out on the dunes / Satellite sea / Tyrrhenian blue / Satellite sea / Tyrrhenian blue / [Pre-Chorus] / What's mine
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Ben Howard – Old Pine
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[Verse 1] / Hot sand on toes, cold sand in sleeping bags / I've come to know that memories / Were the best things you ever had / The summer shone, beat down on bony backs / So far
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Ben Howard – Rumble Strip (Vinyl Exclusive)
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[Verse 1] / I heard your voice on the rumble strip / I heard your voice / Somewhere between dark and dawning / Between moon shadow and morning / I heard your voice / [Verse 2] / I
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Ben Howard – These Waters
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I saw red and yellow flowers outside over the moors / And brightest sunrise ever to've touched my eyes / And through it all / I stood and stumbled, waded through my thoughts and
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Ben Howard – End of the Affair
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The eighth track on Howard’s sophomore album, I Forget Where We Were, details the end of a relationship and getting used to life without his former lover as she enjoys a new
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Ben Howard – Bones
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[Verse 1] / Oh go, far from this small town bar we know / Yeah go, frolic in the lights that brought you here / So very long / [Verse 2] / And hold, hold your lips so tightly
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Ben Howard – Sorry Kid
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“Sorry Kid” is the fifth track that anticipates Collections from the Whiteout. The single premiered on BBC Radio 1’s Future Sounds with Annie Mac four days prior to the album drop.
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Ben Howard – Rookery
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When the tracklist for Collections from the Whiteout was released, the title “Rookery” drove Ben Howard’s fanbase mad. This happened because everyone was quick to assume that “
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Ben Howard – Gracious
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[Verse 1] / How would you know? / When everything around you's changing / Like the weather of a big black storm / And who would you turn to? / Had I a ghost, a shadow at the most
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Ben Howard – Make Arrangements
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[Verse 1] / Time to make arrangements / Flood the valley with the call insane / Something the clouds cast / And all around the great refrain / Didn't you talk about the big walk
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I am the fortress at Nazaré / Above the raging sound
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Nazaré is the name of a beach in Portugal known for its giant waves (it holds all the records for biggest surfed waves in the world). People usually go to the fortress of Nazaré to watch these enormous and loud waves hit the beach, the raging sound.
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Ben Howard – White Lights
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I am my dear so painfully clear of it all / What you always fear / Leave you barren land of toil / I gave myself away, so easily you would say / I was a kid / But I’ll always be a
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Ben Howard – Oldest Trick In The Book
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[Verse 1] / A shred of grace among the common thieves / They left your passport with the policía / Robbed but thankful / Well that's the oldest trick in the book / [Chorus] / Baby
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Ben Howard – Small Things
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This opening song is an indication of the depressive themes to follow in the rest of the album. A much different experience than his first album, but no less musically riveting
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Ben Howard – Finders Keepers
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[Verse] / What’s that in the river? / That suitcase, that wheel / Floating / What’s that in the river? / That suitcase, that pearl / I was asking for you / What's that in the river
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Ben Howard (Ft. Monica Heldal) – Burgh Island
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“Burgh Island,” Ben’s fourth song on the EP of the same name, uses imagery to describe his feelings about a woman. Through deliberate lyrical choices, he relates the feelings he
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Ben Howard – Esmerelda
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[Verse 1] / Oh, blinded, now I see / That I could not hold you / My orange tree / Left in the darkened room for three of us to share / Oh, maybe you were free / Before my blackened
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