Boat

Track 1 on - (Subtract) [Deluxe Vinyl Edition]

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Apr. 21, 20231 viewer98.7K views

Boat Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Came in for the embers
Stayed out for the breeze
I need to feel elements to remind me
There's beauty when it's bleak

[Pre-Chorus]
Stuck out long before lights down
Why do I breathe? Oh, I know

[Chorus]
The more that I love, the less that I feel
The times that I jumped never were real
They say that all scars will heal, but I know
Maybe I won't
But the waves won't break my boat
But the waves won't brеak my boat

[Verse 2]
The stones crash on the boardwalk
Thе wind rush through the trees
I keep my eyes peeled
The memories always fall short
Of what we could've been

[Pre-Chorus]
Left out long before last call
What do I need? Oh, I know

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[Chorus]
The more that I love, the less that I feel
The times that I jumped never were real
They say that all scars will heal, but I know
Maybe I won't
But the waves won't break my boat
But the waves won't break my boat

[Bridge]
But the waves won't break my boat
The waves won't break my boat

[Chorus]
The more that I love, the less that I feel
The times that I jumped never were real
They say that all scars will heal, but I know
Maybe I won't
And the waves won't break my boat

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“Boat” is a soft guitar track about being resilient and knowing you can’t be torn down after hard experiences. The track is the second single from Ed Sheeran’s fifth studio album, - (Subtract), and was released on April 21, 2023. Additionally, the song was the first song written for the album, excluding “The Hills of Aberfeldy” which was written over 10 years ago.

Rolling Stone states that the opening track, was written “over a piano-and-drums bed” but then was re-recorded into “a raw guitar song.”

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What did Ed Sheeran say about "Boat"?

Subtract Sundays – Boat – I wrote this by the English seaside, very extreme elements in the winter. It’s basically about feeling very low and not knowing how to make it feel better, but being determined it wasn’t gonna be the end. The waves wont break my boat

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So “Boat” is basically a song about resilience, I guess. Feeling at your lowest, and wondering if you can get through it, basically. I wrote the song and finished it by the English seaside. Which is, I think very beautiful, it is quite a bleak and cold place in Winter. I was looking out at the sea, and we saw waves crashing down. I sort of felt like, that was a good metaphor of what was happening, at the time with me. And that’s where the line “The waves wont break my boat” came from.

– via Subtract Sundays

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