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To the Boats (feat. Sophie Kilburn)

from Things We Learned to Live With by Asthmatic Harp

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'To the Boats' is a warm and nostalgic duet with Singer-Songwriter Sophie Kilburn. The instrumentation is sparse and earthy with autoharp and ‘First Aid Kit’-inspired harmonies with a ghostly layer of incidental sounds leading the imagination towards a dark lake in a lush Summer forest.

“I wrote ‘To the Boats’ in the summer of 2019 in a Welsh chapel. The lyrics came together like a jigsaw puzzle whilst searching through titles of books that covered the back wall.”

‘To the Boats’ is a song dedicated to friendship. It speaks of longing for an embrace from a close friend. It pictures the separation, either physical or emotional that can occur between two people, once inseparable. It is a song about the intimacy of hearing “I wish you were here” whispered gently through a mobile phone and received through the vibrations in your ear.

“My childhood friend had been in a horrible accident with a bad concussion. For days, I was unsure whether she would ever return to her usual self. I was worried that she had hit her head so badly that all our mutual memories were gone. Using a selection of book titles as the starting point for my writing, helped me find a language for what I could not express in my own words. As soon as the lyrics started forming, the rest of the song just came dancing out of nowhere.”

lyrics

Tree by leaf
Deep waters
I wish you were here with me

Stone by stone
Outweighs us
I wish you were here with me

Tiptoe over the bridge to memories we lost
To fights we fought and things we learned to live with
Burning into the night
I can’t swim or reach you on a lake with no name

To the boats
Afloat us
I wish you were here with me

Tiptoe over the bridge to memories we lost
To fights we fought and things we learned to live with
Burning into the night
I can’t swim or reach you
I can’t swim or reach you on a lake with no name

credits

from Things We Learned to Live With, track released June 3, 2020
Music/Songwriting: Hannah Fredsgaard-Jones
Autoharp, Vocal: Hannah Fredsgaard-Jones
Vocal: Sophie Kilburn

Mix/Master: Green Door Studio, Glasgow

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Asthmatic Harp Oxford, UK

“A delightfully playful slice of alt-folk pitched somewhere between Regina Spektor’s characterful delivery and Laura Marling’s near-perfect tones.”
Asthmatic Harp is the musical moniker of Oxford based songwriter and composer Hannah Fredsgaard-Jones.

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