JTinners YES.

Starts at 4:48... chills

I just wrote that too xx

nobbeish It appears that you first need to learn to play the guitar upside down. What a handy player Ben is.

Isn't it that he's just playing a right handed guitar left handed?

@@chrisdchilds yep ie. upsidedown. He uses a right handed one so when he flips it, it still faces the right way

@@calebe321 Yeah cheers, got it shortly after writing this. Creative fella he is. I think it's my favourite from this album. Clever song

@@calebe321 you didn't, you didn't have to tell me. I knew it always... :)

YES

I'm actually thinking of getting a tattoo inspired by this song it's hit me so powerfully, I'm toying with a chain twisting once around my forearm from elbow to wrist with "come to me, make me sane" trailing it above the chain and "tell me a thought, tell me beautiful things" doing the same but underneath

I think the lyric is 'Like how the river bends, in a wild wood creek'. Maybe wrong though! Bens lyrics are notoriously hard to decipher

Exactly xx

Between Lines sorry I didn't film the defeat. Will try and film it when I see Ben again next year on 17th January.

No need to say sorry at all! You brought so awesome videos with you! Thanks again and maybe just enjoy the next show instead of filming :P All tho Im always happy to see videos...but I wouldnt even film myself I think in order to experience 100% :D

thats my 30th bday :) im getting to see him for the first time one week later

One of my favourite lines from Ben... what the hell What the hell love...

Spencer Allen he is indeed a playing a regular strung right hand guitar with the lowest string on bottom.

No, he is indeed playing the 'Ben Howard' guitar!

I can´t shake the feeling that it´s mostly a love song but part recovery song, because I personally believe that he alludes to depression/mental health and hard ships with some lines . Most things make him smile nowadays tho, so thanks to the continues help and presence of something or rather someone ("oh amoret with your chain" "come to me, make me sane")he´s better now and hence able to enjoy the small things in life ("like how the river bends") instead of worrying about "making history". That person grounds him in the here and now, despite still struggling with some things.

@@wildestnothing927 yeah, id agree with you there...initially thought it was 'im a wreck, with you chained' meaning that he's in a bad place and thought he was dragging his partner down but they were making him sane? but maybe its amoret? i dunno. either way i really want ben to do an interview or post on what the lyrical meanings are to him but i know its just not his style. dammit he's such a poet though and his words and music really get to me. we should form a group of de-coders haha!

I hear it as 'I'm irate with your chains', or maybe I kind of hear what I want to because that lyric really resonates with me. I interpret this song as escaping all responsibilities of everyday life, living it simple, and reflecting on everything.

@@ITCrowdRS so whose 'chains' do you think he's talking about? really love hearing different people's interpretations! i also like hearing it in a certain way so the song speaks to me-- i guess thats fine but id really love to know the official lyric intended. do you have any idea on the 'what the moon does to the devout' would mean? :)

It seems to be that he is saying 'oh amoret, with your chains', but that lyric doesn't really mean anything to me; i hear 'I'm irate with your chains', which to me means being tired with responsibilities, people or anything else that stops you from living how you want to. So I guess the chains are just a metaphor for those things. as for 'what the moon does to the devout', this is the point at which i go completely from my own point of view in what the song makes me visualize; A while ago, I had an amazing experience watching a lunar eclipse in the middle of nowhere with one of the most incredible people i'll probably ever meet. I pretty much gave all up all my responsibilities at home, travelled to a different country for a month, and this moment watching the moon was the most memorable part of that trip; the moment at which i just 'smiled' and felt 'sane'. That, and so many other lyrics in this song perfectly match moments of this trip. What did Ben Howard mean by 'what the moon does to the devout'? I have no idea, but I know what it means to me ;)

anne marie IS the correct version though :D

Its actually "amoret" which is like a petty love affair i think