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Ben Howard – Couldn’t Make It Up (2023) | Track profile | Dork

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Ben Howard
Is It?
Couldn’t Make It Up

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Couldn’t Make It Up

Release date: 15th June 2023

From Is It?Track 13:55

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About This Track

"Couldn’t Make It Up" is a single by Ben Howard, from the album Is It?, released 15th June 2023. The track is 3:55 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 3 articles about Ben Howard.

About the Artist

Ben Howard

Ben Howard

Lyrics

Couldn’t Make It Up

Could not
Could not make it up
Sitting in the garden
Listening to the radio
Cinder forming into great clouds
What's it to me anyhow?
Wish I knew
How to tell you the mess I'm in
Love is that the final sound?
Strangeness passing deep inside me now

What's with the face
With the half mast frown?
If I give up
Do I give up now?

What's with the face
With the half mast frown?
If I give up
Do I give up now?

Goodnight
Goodnight getting out alive
What's it to me anyhow?
Colours shifting like a landslide
So many times
I've seen myself in the breaker yard
Love is that the final sound?
Now I see the fear in your eyes loud

What's with the face
With the half mast frown?
If I give up
Do I give up now?
What's with the face
With the half mast frown?

Whistling wind
Strange to me
Whistling wind
Ah
Whistling wind
Strange to me

Whistling wind
Strange to me
Whistling wind
Ah
Whistling wind
Strange to me

Could not
Could not make it up
Sitting in the garden
Listening to the radio
Mumbling the words
Like the first time around
Listening to the radio
Wish I knew
Wish I knew the words to this one
Love is that the final sound?
Now I see the fear in your eyes loud

Lyrics provided by LRCLIB

Track details

From Is It?

3:552023Single

Listen

Album

Track number

1

Release year

2023

1Couldn’t Make It Up
3:55
2Walking Backwards
5:20
3Days Of Lantana
5:15
4Life In The Time
3:30

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I Forget Where We Were (10th Anniversary Deluxe)

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I Forget Where We Were

Every Kingdom

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Ben Howard — In Dreams (from I Forget Where We Were (10th Anniversary Deluxe)) [3:33]
Ben Howard — She Treats Me Well (from I Forget Where We Were (10th Anniversary Deluxe)) [5:18]
Ben Howard — Time Is Dancing (from I Forget Where We Were (10th Anniversary Deluxe)) [6:49]
Ben Howard — Evergreen (from I Forget Where We Were (10th Anniversary Deluxe)) [4:05]
Ben Howard — Rivers In Your Mouth (from I Forget Where We Were (10th Anniversary Deluxe)) [5:12]
Ben Howard — Small Things (from I Forget Where We Were (10th Anniversary Deluxe)) [5:44]
Ben Howard — End Of The Affair (from I Forget Where We Were (10th Anniversary Deluxe)) [7:46]
Ben Howard — Conrad (from I Forget Where We Were (10th Anniversary Deluxe)) [6:08]
Ben Howard — I Forget Where We Were (from I Forget Where We Were (10th Anniversary Deluxe)) [4:41]
Ben Howard — All Is Now Harmed (from I Forget Where We Were (10th Anniversary Deluxe)) [5:02]
Ben Howard — Am I In Your Light? (from I Forget Where We Were (10th Anniversary Deluxe)) [4:49]
Ben Howard — How Are You Feeling?
Ben Howard — How Are You Feeling? [4:29]
Ben Howard — Rumble Strip [3:00]
Ben Howard — Days Of Lantana (from Is It?) [5:15]
Ben Howard — Interim Of Sense (from Is It?) [3:56]
Ben Howard — Moonraker (from Is It?) [4:26]
Ben Howard — Little Plant (from Is It?) [3:59]
Ben Howard — Life In The Time (from Is It?) [3:30]
Ben Howard — Walking Backwards (from Is It?) [5:20]
Ben Howard — Total Eclipse (from Is It?) [1:30]
Ben Howard — Spirit (from Is It?) [5:10]
Ben Howard — Richmond Avenue (from Is It?) [5:14]
Ben Howard — Ghost (acoustic)
Ben Howard — Follies Fixture (from Collections From The Whiteout) [3:59]
Ben Howard — The Strange Last Flight of Richard Russell (from Collections From The Whiteout) [4:23]
Ben Howard — Far Out (from Collections From The Whiteout) [4:19]
Ben Howard — Make Arrangements (from Collections From The Whiteout) [4:26]
Ben Howard — Crowhurst's Meme (from Collections From The Whiteout) [3:44]
Ben Howard — Buzzard (from Collections From The Whiteout) [0:55]
Ben Howard — Rookery (from Collections From The Whiteout) [2:31]
Ben Howard — Sorry Kid (from Collections From The Whiteout) [5:00]
Ben Howard — Sage That She Was Burning (from Collections From The Whiteout) [4:17]
Ben Howard — Unfurling (from Collections From The Whiteout) [3:41]
Ben Howard — Finders Keepers (from Collections From The Whiteout) [2:49]
Ben Howard — You Have Your Way (from Collections From The Whiteout) [4:25]
Ben Howard — What A Day (from Collections From The Whiteout) [5:17]
Ben Howard — Metaphysical Cantations (from Collections From The Whiteout) [4:22]
Ben Howard — Far Out / Follies Fixture
Ben Howard — Deadlove
Ben Howard — Heave Ho
Ben Howard — Another Friday Night / Hot Heavy Summer / Sister
Ben Howard — Murmurations (from Noonday Dream) [6:16]
Ben Howard — There's Your Man (from Noonday Dream) [4:39]
Ben Howard — What the Moon Does (from Noonday Dream) [5:21]
Ben Howard — A Boat To an Island On the Wall (from Noonday Dream) [7:10]
Ben Howard — A Boat To an Island, Pt. 2 / Agatha's Song (from Noonday Dream) [4:54]
Ben Howard — All Down the Mines (Interlude) (from Noonday Dream) [0:47]
Ben Howard — Nica Libres At Dusk (from Noonday Dream) [6:34]
Ben Howard — Someone In the Doorway (from Noonday Dream) [4:56]
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Ben Howard — In Dreams (from I Forget Where We Were) [3:33]
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Ben Howard — All Is Now Harmed (from I Forget Where We Were) [5:02]
Ben Howard — Time Is Dancing (from I Forget Where We Were) [6:49]
Ben Howard — End of the Affair (from I Forget Where We Were) [7:46]
Ben Howard — Rivers In Your Mouth (from I Forget Where We Were) [5:12]
Ben Howard — She Treats Me Well (from I Forget Where We Were) [5:18]
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