Ben Howard - A Boat To An Island On The Wall Pt. 2 / Agatha's Song - Live In Paris 2018

[@s4mcote]

The line “What have I done with my years” brings tears to my eyes, beautiful stuff

[@haseeb731]

mate but we are happy to see him happy now, this album is about overcoming his loss!

[@olliewalsh8706]

@@haseeb731 the loss of what? He is obviously troubled in IFWWW, but what is it he’s lost? This isn’t a challenge I’m genuinely interested

[@structuremania9092]

​@@olliewalsh8706 this is probably quite surface stuff but if we take everything in these albums to be true then I suppose the years he's lost are from smoking and obsessing over the girl/girls from IFWWW, etc.

[@KojoAM]

What a magical album. you dont understand it fully until you hear it a couple of times. such a shift from IFWW. Crazy good artist full of soul

[@danielhollyman6656]

In my imagination, this record will begin to play in that fleeting moment when we all come to pass. On the edge of life, all your memories flash before your eyes and looking back, you come to realise you were part of something much greater. A beautiful and timeless moment floating by the Pearly gates before we go.

[@olliewalsh8706]

Wow that is a beautiful comment

[@daniellowe2617]

This is most beautiful shit ever. It makes you feel content with your place in the world, while reflecting on all the beauty existence holds.

[@muttakinc2281]

Perfect

[@elizabethborromeo1171]

I love this. Wish this would have been the album version.

[@EPmager]

The verses may've seemed to be to personal for him to put on the record, so he tried to make up for them with ambience, which is also super beautiful

[@Neejdien]

How can you not get in love with this!? Ben’s music is the best thing that got into my life. So talented, authentic, beautiful, modest, it gets under my skin. Such a big treasure and I take it with me forever. 🖤 Unfortunately there are only not many people in my surrounding who I can share it with :(

[@DV_MLS]

Completely agree Nadine! Nobody in my friends circle understands my obsession with him and his music! Ive been lucky enough to see him live on several occasions and only then do i feel the passion for him! The latest of shows i went to was in Lyon and even with the language barrier the music and crowd was electric yet hypnotic! Music is the great communicator!

[@tomblackburn5997]

Same here! Literally no one I know likes him

[@kevinmole9982]

share it with me nade ben is a genius

[@kekovillarreal1]

Beautiful performance by the man himself!

[@sheahickman6870]

Keep coming back to this time and time again.

[@rrrrrrr-0000]

there's the man who can hush my Demons down

[@OooBlackSkullyooO]

Was here, wonderful show and Incredible song

[@insideout97]

To be in Paris listeing to Ben Howard wear his heart on his sleve... thank you for the upload!

[@junkyarddog303]

Could this be any more beautiful

[@joseph1587]

Incredible. Love the lyrics so much too. Very moving.

[@terrapin8474]

Live version with full lyrics = A Boat to An Island pt. III

[@jel1211]

This music pieces steal my soul everytime I listen

[@mathieuferradou5471]

I have to say that I was there, in the venue, listening to this song. The gig was not that good. Not Ben's fault, by any mean, but the audience and Ben were not in sync. The audience was there for the first album, Ben felt it, and resented it, I suppose. Myself, because of this failed meeting, I was unable to appreciate the gig. Later, this exact summer, I was in Ireland, in the Dingle peninsula, and more precisely in Kilshanig peninsula. It was a beautiful day. We had walked around the peninsula with friends. We stumbled a beautiful beach. The surf was good. Some of us went for a swim. I wish I had a surf board at the moment. But I remember clearly, being in the ocean, looking toward the land at the mountains of the Dingle peninsula, and hearing the surfers ride the waves. And I thought that I was happy. Every time now I hear this song it propels me back to this wonderful memory, to this wonderful moment in time.

[@donslaughter6362]

This is so beautiful. I just can’t stop listening to it.

[@edj2106]

Well I walk out Sunday morning To watch the weather blow through the trees It´s so nice to be around you now Fill the day with aching breeze And I said through me I would like to be Someone kind over cavalier What have I done with my years? Put a rose upon the table, dear Throw a leaf inside my door It´s so nice to be around you now Fill the days with asking more And I said through me I would like to be Someone kind over cavalier What have I done with my years?

[@paque-music]

It’s “And I said to me” instead of through :) Good lyrics tho thankyou!

[@wildestnothing927]

Sven I think it depends on the version . In most vid's of the live shows and the record version it sounds more like "through".

[@edj2106]

I’m seeing him live in 2 weeks. If he plays this song, I’ll hear it with my own ears...maybe I can hear if its either “said to me” or “said through me” :)

[@cheezheadz3928]

I think it's "put a leaf inside my door"

[@lilwitch186]

You're listening to my future wedding song

[@DV_MLS]

Ben.. The gift that just keeps giving! Such a talent! Not only is he left handed playing a right handed guitar he plays the strings upside down (Correct me if i'm wrong - Im no expert!)

[@stephenbrearley691]

Will always love this song.

[@DanielPKristiansen]

Thanks for good sound quality

[@ElohaMusic]

beautiful

[@Andrees-Rmz]

What a beauty

[@LightningBoltForever]

Playing guitar. Upside down. Badass.

[@iMertin90]

LightningBoltForever it’s no upside down to speak. It’s just restrung for him being a lefty

[@MNZGamin]

MERTIN The 6th string looks like it’s at the bottom though

[@iketyke7324]

MERTIN No man it’s completely upside down. Strung the same way as a righty. He does it on all down the mines and sometimes there’s your man and always on what the moon does. He is something else.

[@rosssims9969]

Beautiful

[@lucigaiah]

Beautiful 🦋🌼🍓🌱💙

[@terrapin8474]

Full album listing for me... 1. Nica Libres at Dusk 2. Towing The Line 3. A Boat to An Island on the Wall 4. What The Moon Does 5. Someone in the Doorway 6. All Down the Mines 7. The Defeat 8. A Boat to An Island pt. II / Agatha's Song 9. There's Your Man 10. Murmurations 11. Bird on a Wing 12. Interlude 13. Untitled / Rooks 14. A Boat to An Island pt. III Let's hope Ben releases this as a deluxe version.

[@OHaraekul]

a boat to an island III?

[@danstokesmusic]

@@OHaraekul where's all these extra songs?

[@coolwhhhhhhip88]

very pretty

[@vladlabyrinth6335]

sounds like This Will Destroy You at the end)

[@JensaMaiNali]

Or bring you back to life :) Depends on where you are in your life, I guess

[@reuben6896]

@@JensaMaiNali He's saying it sounds like the band 'this will destroy you' lmao

[@annapoole296]

Sigur Ros valdedur anyone??

[@iMertin90]

anyone know where the shirts from?

[@randombollocks]

it's Ben's clothing line he collaborated with antibad they are only selling them at gigs at the moment

[@lucowaters3792]

Who is Agatha tho?

[@lilwitch186]

She's Ben's girlfriend

[@lucowaters3792]

Lil Witch ugh i'm a Bad Fan :D thanks for telling me ^-^

[@haseeb731]

Is this the name of his girlfriend who committed suicide?

[@lilwitch186]

Haseeb Khan no lol Agatha is very much alive xD but the one you're talking about is just an assumed rumour because of all the songs about death like Esmeralda and Follaton Wood. We don't know for sure if there was a someone who died, but I remember an interview where Ben denied such claims and rumours.

[@haseeb731]

I've searched a lot on it and all of his songs makes it more clear, and I think he will never tell the truth or will accept it because its just the way he is, I went to his concert in Edinburgh and in that apart from saying 'thankyou' he never said anything so just imagine, and read this blog! marsblogs.tumblr.com/post/48044755976/truth-about-ben-howards-ex-girlfriend

[@MNZGamin]

Album should've been this version. I think the instrumentals are just overbearing on a lot of this albums songs