Ed Sheeran’s world is shattered in ‘Boat’; watch video and lyrics

When Ed Sheeran started talking about To subtract (-), the album with which he will end his pentalogy of mathematical symbols, spoke of a totally acoustic disc. What no one imagined was that their world, at the time of creating it, was about to explode. This idea is what the soloist showed in images in the video clip of Boathis new single.

For more than 3 minutes we only see the performer at the mercy of the waves of a raging sea. An unequivocal metaphor for the blows that life can take and that shake everything around you. As if that weren’t enough, halfway through the music video, hundreds of broken objects that have to do with the musician begin to fall into the ocean (digitally and ecologically).

The visual demonstration that the English artist’s world came crashing down with the tragic loss of several of his friends and with the news that his wife had a tumor that was inoperable until she gave birth to their second daughter. Convulsive moments that led to Ed Sheeran to write Boatthe song that opened up the creative flow to create his new studio album.

“I wrote Boat on the English coast, an area with very extreme winter elements. It’s basically about feeling really down and not knowing how to feel better, but being determined that it’s not Wasn’t the end. The waves won’t break my boat. Boat is basically a song about resilience, I guess. About feeling down and how you can get over it. I’m done with it. writing off the coast of England, which is a beautiful area but also a little cold and desolate in winter. While I was composing the song, I was looking out to sea and those gigantic waves crashing on the shore. I thought it It was a nice metaphor about me, about what was happening at that time. That’s where the verse comes from that the waves will never break my boat”, explained Ed Sheeran a few days ago on his social networks during the Subtract Sundays, the Sundays where he presents his songs in acoustics.

This is the second video clip recorded in this area of ​​the English coast. Because in his time, the musician has already confirmed that he has recorded several musical proposals that seem to be related to each other. A few weeks ago he presented Eyes closed, su primer sencillo, in which we could see how he drove on a road to fall off a cliff. After a few seconds, we could see him visiting several bars with a blue monster that represented his sadness and depression.

It will be necessary to wait to see the continuation of the videos of the songs of his new album to see the chronological order of this short film that Ed Sheeran sets up with Mia Barnes, the director of all, to present Subtract.