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Tune of the Day: Follaton Wood ~ Ben Howard

He has the ability to make melancholy sound hopeful and happy…and sometimes the other way round too. My, what a beautiful and tragic song.

Oh you
Screamed Hallelujah darling, 
startled all the sleeping Starlins on the wire. 
As we walked up the footpath through the fields, 
how the rain did reveal your heart. 
And the rope swing from the balance held the weight, 
shadows fall and a cold wind blows. 
And you said oh maybe we’re just lost souls here, 
maybe oh everybody goes.

Tune of the Day: Cloud Nine ~ Ben Howard

I can’t explain it, but there’s just something so perfect and so reassuring about this song. He says he wrote it for his sister. 

So may your worries, may your worries
Never fall to loud.
And may you stay here, may you stay here
Happy in your own skin,
On the ninth cloud.

Tune of the day: Bones ~ Ben Howard

Sometimes a song just catches you off guard, and you let it knock you down.

And go silent as death on the first day of the snow
Oh go leave these fires burning
A house of embers and coal
And cover cover all those boys that search for love
In your room
Cause lust is just a child’s game
And you, oh you were always late to bloom

And you laugh like you’ve never been lonely
That’s alright honey
That’s alright with me
Oh you laugh like there’s hope in the story
That’s alright honey
That’s alright with me
Oh you laugh like I’ll be there to hold you always
Always here
Always honey, always here

Tune of the day: Black flies ~ Ben Howard

And no man is an island, oh this I know
But can’t you see, oh?
Maybe you were the ocean, when I was just a stone

And I don’t wanna beg your pardon
And I don’t wanna ask you why
But if I was to go my own way
Would I have to pass you by?

Cover tune of the day: Call me maybe ( Carly Rae Jepsen) ~ Ben Howard

Honestly…why is there an original??

Ben, Ben, Ben…and his little laugh in the chorus :)

So, call me maybe? :P

Tune of the Day: Gracious ~ Ben Howard

I miss Doodlebug Tuesdays…and Health

How would you know?
When everything around you’s bruised and battered
Like the cold night storm.
And who would you turn to?
Had I a ghost, a shadow at the most, would you tell me so?
Cause I, I adore you so
When it all comes clear, the wind is settled, I’ll be here, you know.

Cause you said ours were the lighthouse towers
The sun upon that place
Darling I’ll grow weary, happy still
With just the memory of your face

Gracious goes the ghost of you
And I will never forget the plans and the
Silhouettes you drew here and
Gracious goes the ghost of you
My dear

Album of the Week: Every Kingdom ~ Ben Howard

At least one doodlebug gets to watch him Live :)

One day, we’ll watch him live :)

New artist of the Week: Only Love ~ Ben Howard

Thank you WLT for Ben Howard! Got his album, ‘Every Kingdom’ and i’m liking it thoroughly :)

and this song caught my ear…and heart :)

Darling you’re with me, always around me.
Only love, only love.
Darling I feel you, under my body.
Only love, only love.
Give me shelter, or show me heart
Come on love, come on love.
Watch me fall apart, watch me fall apart.

And I’ll be yours to keep.