In this song, there is a narrator who has either died, or escaped his life and shut himself up inside of his own little universe, and let the time fly by him in comfortable isolation.
The concept of this song is much like that of the song Sauna. The concept for that song has been stated as this by...
I was born out of nowhere
And back to nowhere I’ll return
But for now the river next to the house
The river inside the house, and a person’s form
Disconnected and drifting in my boat
I built this boat on the shore
Pushed it into the waves and was born
In this boat, blown across the north
Another island appears and then goes
Mind only plus the ocean and my boat
There’s no way I will be able
To ever step outside of my boat
BOAT was written by Phil Elverum.
BOAT was produced by Phil Elverum.
Mount Eerie released BOAT on Tue Feb 03 2015.