Ben Howard – I Forget Where We Were

Caledonoia on my mind

The Basement

Lyrics:

So you’re gone now
Oh, my friend
I don’t know how it ended
But I’m sure I’ll find a clue
What happened with me and you
I hope you’re happy, whatever you’re doing

It’s a million lies away
I can’t understand it
Oh, you’re here and then it’s grey
How the clouds are banding
How do I understand it all
I’ll find my way
I have to pay

And I wait for a call 
It don’t come
Talk it out with my friends
Oh they’re right now
When they say that it’s done
Turned to dust 
I know, I can’t let go
I’ll find a way to carry on


It’s a million lies away
I can’t understand it
Oh, you’re here and then it’s grey
How the clouds are banding
How do I understand it all
I’ll find my way
I have to pay

I know I failed
Saw you breaking on the chair
Balcon, we fought
Tore the world apart
Don’t know how I couldn’t see your pain
I can’t, won’t go there again

And we tore the world apart
Let it go asunder
As I gave you all my rage
You took the pain and ran again


It’s a million lies away
I can’t understand it
Oh, you’re here and then it’s grey
How the clouds are banding
How do I understand it all
I’ll find my way

Balcon

Begin to Hope

Samson

I Forget Where We Were

In Dreams

She Treats Me Well

Small Things

Rivers In Your Mouth

Ben Howard returns with his 4th album, Collections From The Whiteout, produced alongside Aaron Dessner (The National). The foreboding darkness that coated Ben’s second record I Forget Where We Were and thinly veiled its follow up Noonday Dream, isn’t so evident on Collections. These are songs written from headlines scanned, or news stories scrolled past, providing inspiration for a selection of vivid narrative snapshots – the death of amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst (Crowhurst’s Meme); Russian fraudster Anna Sorokin (Sorry Kid); the man who stole and crashed a plane in Seattle (The Strange Last Flight Of Richard Russell); and the dismembered body a friend of his father found in a suitcase floating along the Thames (Finders Keepers). Alongside them, the personal anecdotes from the same scattered period living between Paris, Devon and Spain. Yussef Dayes features, as does Kate Stables (This Is The Kit), James Krivchenia (Big Thief), Kyle Keegan (Hiss Golden Messenger), and Dessner. Thomas Bartlett, St. Vincent’s go-to pianist, and Rob Moose, a long-standing arranger of strings for Bon Iver, are also present. Long-term guitarist to Ben’s band, Mickey Smith (A Blaze of Feather), remains a reassuring constant. It’s a sonic adventure that continues this nagging suggestion that Ben is one of the UK’s most inventive and naturally talented songwriters. CFTW is his latest opus, and arguably his most fully realised to date.

I Forget Where We Were

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