Kings Of Convenience - Cayman Islands 

Legend song, 2024 I'm still love this song

I really can’t describe how I feel every time I listen to this song, it takes me somewhere else, not the islands, somewhere inside my soul, sometimes is a happy feeling sometimes sad, sometimes it heals something I didn’t even know was there, after all this years is the safe place where I allow myself to feel, everything. So thank you for this.

학생 때 야자하면서 많이 들었는데 이제는 야근하면서도 듣고있네요 너무 좋은 노래인거 같아요 좋은노래 감사합니다.😌 한국인두 많이 듣는다구 쓰고 싶어서 댓글 남겨요 코로나 시국에 다들 힘내세요!

im from Indonesia, when i was a child, i like to play in the field around my village, with my friends, we did simple thing like played a kite, collected the stone in the river. by the year, 18 years later, someday in the cleae, evening i sat in that field, alone and hear this song, all my friend is gone, and the memory remain. i ussualy try to find happiness in the great things and big achievement untill that day, i realize that i just need a simple thing to smile.. just like what i do in my childhood.

When I was a child, my parents separated and I locked myself in my room to disconnect from everything, this song brought me peace, beyond the lyrics of the song, it gave me a feeling of tranquility and reflection, now at my 31 years , it continues to generate positive emotions to continue with my life. Thk a lot

rainy day with a book, cup of coffee and this song

I remember the family had a road trip to Java and this song was played over and over again. One night, while sitting in front seat I turned my head back looking my mom sleeping in the back seat in a dark place somewhere in southern Java with this song. So serene it was.

Who is in 2019 and still listening to this lovely song?

Cayman Island lyrics Through the alleyways To cool off in the shadows Then into the street Following the water There's a bearded man Paddling in his canoe Looks as if he has Come all the way from the Cayman Islands These canals, it seems They all go in circles Places look the same And we're the only difference The wind is in your hair It's covering my view I'm holding on to you On a bike we've hired until tomorrow If only they could see If only they had been here They would understand How someone could have chosen To go the length I've gone To spend just one day riding Holding on to you I never thought it would be this clear

I'm 30 now, oh God, how time goes too fast.. And i still remember every memories with this song

For the last 3 years, this song has put my children to sleep every single night. When they cry, i hum it and they stop immediately. Never got tired of it. Been a fan since 2007!

I had the pleasure of seeing them last night in Washington DC. This was the third song they played and I immediately started crying. My mother was diagnosed with Alzheimers in 2017. Today, she doesn't know who I am. For the longest time I've associated this song with her. Despite it being somewhat of a romantic song, I think of my mother and struggle to remember what she was like before. It was weird, I was crying partially because I was seeing them live (which I never thought would happen), but also because of what this song means to me. I surely hope it isn't another 10 years before they come back. I don't want to imagine a life without their music - I'm very fortunate to have stumbled across them years ago. And I am even more grateful that they played near me. If any of you have the chance, see them. This was the best concert I have ever been to.

Sweetness and clean air in a polluted world.God bless them .A strong influence from marvellous bossa nova music

Gentle. Soothing. Kind. Beautiful, extremely.

i spent a few younger years living in the cayman islands, my sweetest childhood memories now have a soundtrack. thank you.

So often you don't realize how very much you love a song until you can't get it out of your head, and don't care to. Like "Cayman Islands" and so many KOC productions.

A friend of mine suggested me to listen to this song, to both knowing that it probably would be the very last time we will ever have a conversation together. I can never tell him how soothing this song is, how it'll bring all our good memories and how it'll remind me of him, forever.

I met this girl on snapchat about a year ago from the Cayman islands and I fell for her so hard and we spent so much time together on facetime but i had to stop talking to her because it hurt too much knowing how far she was from me physically and I miss her even though i’ve never met her irl. I found this video because i’ve become obsessed with the Cayman islands and the beautiful places and people that live there.

2024 still listening

Brought here because it's a beautiful song.

I heard this song the other day having dinner with a friend at a restaurant. I was talking and I stopped only to listen the song with my eyes closed. My friend looked at me stranged but didn't say nothing. Then I explained him. This song reminds me a lot to the way my dad used to play the guitar, the sound I miss the most since he died 8 years ago by a heart attack. This song fills me with warmth but also makes me feel so sad...

I'm so glad that a duo like this exists.

This song makes me missing someone I never met. This is the thing that hurts the most: loneliness that has no time, no ending. Thank you Kings of Convenience to share the deepest part of your soul with us, your music is a loyal mate, everyday.

wherever I go, when I need peace.. I will come back to this song. this song is safe zone for me>

I use to toke the green after the bar and fall asleep to them in the early 2000s. Hearing them is peace

this song i think can be interpreted in multiple ways. i interpret it this way which is about a broken relationship. The singer reminisces how he used to have someone he loved, who walked together with him and how they had the greatest time of their lives. Suddenly their relationship ended and he described himself feeling like he was a bearded man(old and sad man who doesn't take care of himself), paddling all the way from an island of joy. He then went through the old places they used to hang together and they still looked the same but the difference is he was now alone, without his soulmate. The hair covering the man's view symbolized how memories of her can't be forgotten. He's still holding to the things they used to share or memories of her. Seeing how sad the man is (maybe they think it's unnecessary), people around him cheered him or maybe criticized him for not being able to move on from her. But, they don't know how beautiful the relationship was and how important the girl was to the singer. He put so much effort in fixing the relationship with her but it failed in the end and she's gone out of reach. It's clear how he misses her so much and desires for her comeback soon. This is purely my interpretation but I don't think this was what the songwriter intended to write. But really, a beautiful song that brings out the emotions.

The year is 2009, it's friday night, the love of your life just sent you this song via ICQ. Life is good. Although I moved on from where I was back then I still fall in love with the feeling I had when I was listening to this beautiful, beautiful peace of art for the very first time. Cayman Islands always brings me back to that time of my life.

I was listening to this song while gazing at a lake in a small town in Italy, and again when onboard a ferry from Helsinki to a nearby island near sunset. I will never forget how in love with life I could be.

I did not know Frodo was such a great musician!

Through the alleyways to cool off in the shadows, then into the street following the water. There's a bearded man paddling in his canoe, looks as if he has come all the way from the Cayman Islands. These canals, it seems, they all go in circles, places look the same, and we're the only difference. The wind is in your hair, it's covering my view. I'm holding on to you, on a bike we've hired until tomorrow. If only they could see, if only they had been here, they would understand, how someone could have chosen to go the length I've gone, to spend just one day riding. Holding on to you, I never thought it would be this clear.

I don't know why I cried... It is the first time I listen this awesome song...

2021 and still listening KoC?

my dad used to put on this band on every road trip when i was little. I have all of their songs carved into my soul without knowing the title. Sometimes a melody of one of them comes to my mind and i have to put spotify on shuffle hoping to be lucky and to find it on the first try

Hello from the Cayman Islands, perched atop the highest point of the Bluff Rock Cliff of Cayman Brac, looking out over the Caribbean Sea, we send a message out to sea and hope it reaches a new friend in these difficult times. Sending out this open invitation to visit our Cayman Islands! If this message ever gets to the band, or get a message to contact me (here on RU-vid) sure it could happen, it's long overdue . "Kings of Convenience in Cayman" Okay folks, add that one to your bucket list!

This song perfectly feels my loneliness

11 years later and i'm still deeply in love with this song, thank you so much KOC xx the vivid imagery it portrays in my mind me, alone at an island with the song playing softly in the background the smell of petrichor, longing for my home, lingering thoughts of what could have been with my love "holding onto you, i never thought it would be this clear"

As a Caymanian native, I approve of this lovely song!🥰

I remember listening to this with a friend in high school, he introduces me to this song and I was dumbfounded that I didn't know KingsOfConvenience sooner. I miss those days...

This has been my favorite KOC song ever since it played from an mp3 I was listening to on the back of a bicycle I was riding with my first love. We were circling around a lake near the sea in the first trip we took together. The last line of the song couldn’t have been more perfect.

남이섬의 아름다운 풍경속에서 2인승 자전거 타며 여기저기 둘러본 그런 기억이 나게하는 힐링곡 잘들었어욤~~

Only heard this song once, when I was a teenager. Didn't know the artist, title, and the lyric. But thanks to google, I can just humming and finally found this song again 😍

Look at it like 2 friends realising there is different paths they have to.take its heart breaking

What could be better than this with a Cup of tea before sleep? These guys rock

i never knew a song would be this 'kind' of soothing.

Everytime i see the words "Cayman Islands" I'll get instantly reminded of this song and this duo.. i don't even remember when and where i first heard of them.. it's like they've been with me all my life.. thanks for the wonderful music, Kings of Convenience .

who is in 2021 and listening to this unique song?

It's 2020 now,.and still, I listened to this memorizing song ❤️. #stayhome #covid19pleasegoaway

My cousin and I play this song in our Shoe Repair now almost daily. It gives us a moment of reminisces of a family we used to have. Yet to love the family we have today.

Brought here by myself because I know it is a masterpiece since a long long time ago.

It seems angels are singing.....It makes me feel so good .....

Discovering this has been the best thing to have happened to me all day. My ultimate secret pleasure is watching adorable guys perform beautiful, mellow music with gentle voices. :)

I watched their show in Jakarta last night and I cried during Cayman Island and Homesick ❤️😭

First time i found this song, was in MTV more than ten years ago. And that was the first time i heard of them. First time i fell in love with them.

I once recommended this breathtakingly beautiful song to someone, only to be told that she would beat me up if she ever had to hear that again. No wonder I soon didn't want that person in my life. On the other hand, it was an old flame who introduced it to me, after years of not talking with each other, and I have been so thankful for that ever since. There is yin and yang in everything!

need this kind of music more

OMG...... I miss this song but didn't know the name. Just got here out of the blue😂

i’m 17 years old, but i enjoy this kind of music way more than the trend nowadays. there’s so much emotion & beauty in the melody & in the simple, but meaningful lyrics. hope they can release new music 🥺

I found this song on someone's playlist. He was a special someone. I wish him happiness.

Beautiful song. Makes me want to fall in love all over again for the 2:41 duration of the song. Haven't heard such good, deep and meaningful music in a while.

my favourite song of all times....💙

Perfect harmony! Makes me want to listen to this song again and again...

like the sound of water flowing on it's stream and vein. It's bring peace, soothing, refreshing and calmness at the same time.

You don't know how much I treasure this song, I save it for those special moments when I need it. Thank you!

Hearing this in the middle of the night, instrumental only, repeat and repeat again, i close my eyes, seems like i go inside my soul

This song really have been going through my life inside out. We all know that we have to broaden our comfort zone and there are times that we will get lost in it. Listening to this song is my way to get back into my safe place and mind, every time.

I came to celebrate the new album in 2021😀✌️

their music brushes past my soul like a fresh breath of air

이 노래는 나의 최애곡이자 학창시절에 들었던 노래중 가장 감명깊게 들었던 곡이다 2009년 내가 중3때 나는펫4 출연자 박지환의 쇼핑몰 키본 bgm이었지 그 쇼핑몰에서 이노래를 처음듣고 나와 초딩이었던 내동생은 영어학원 원어민 선생님께 노래를 들려드리며 제목을 찾아달라했었지ㅋㅋㅋ 10년이 지난 지금 아기를 낳고 아기를 재우면서 듣고있네... 세월 빠르다ㅠㅠ

This song never gets old. I can always find peace and clam while listening to it. Such an amazing song, love it so much!

It’s been almost 15yrs since first time I heard this song. Still love it like first cause somehow it brings me unexplained feeling.

Beautiful eirick with his beautiful sad, soft voice.

I used to listen to this song a few months before my dad died... it’s always emotionally difficult to listen to it but it reminds me of him so much ❤️❤️❤️

El otro día escuche esta canción mientras cenaba con un amigo en un restaurante. Estaba hablando y me calle de golpe para escuchar esta canción con los ojos cerrados. Mi amigo se me quedo mirando extrañado pero no me dijo nada. Luego se lo conté. Esta canción me recuerda terriblemente a la manera de tocar la guitarra de mi padre, el sonido que mas echo de menos desde hace 8 años cuando murió de un infarto. Me llena de calidez a la vez que me pone muy triste...

I apologize to everyone and to myself for only hearing this piece for the first time today, which just turned my day upside down. It is a masterful poem, there are no other words.

I can't help loving the Norwegian accent when singing. It's completely similar to that of A-ha.

Nostalgic. This song from them was one of the best... it comes from heaven.

I cannot believe I'd never heard of these guys! I never watch tv or listen to radio anymore. Don't have an iPod either. Jesus they are AMAZING! Such a unique sound, and I'm loving their look! I Like that little "Boat Behind" video. That was adorable. Come to Salt Lake City some time SOON you guys! (Kings of Convenience).

ما أتخيل ان في اغنية بهذا الهدوء والجمال. أدمنتها أدمنتها خاصة آخر مقطع 😔

I’m sure it’s been said but how can anyone dislike this tune. Reevaluate, seriously.

my favorite song since my teenager

Looking forward to see these guys live again on monday! I hope they'll tour all over the world after the pandemic, so that people may be able to experience them

was like 2006 or so, i was in a high school, at 5:30am i was dressing up to go there, then it happened i hear this beautiful song at mtv when it ended i tried to see who was the artist and i came late and i couldn't see it. Im from México, in those years the internet was slow, and also in p2p software like ares and so on, you could find, classics, or mainstream songs, but in any case i didn't even know what was the name of the artist. So i spent like a month turning on the tv even before of the hour i've seen it. I never heard this song again. But in my mind, constantly after years, i always tried to remember this tune. But then happens, in 2014-2015 like 9 years from the first time i heard it, i found "missread" from KOC and then some days later i heard again this beautiful song since then, nothing could tear me apart from this band, and this song in special.

i miss the old “you”. how you always keep this song on a shared earphones we’re connected to. i hope he is worth it.

This song always lifts me.

here in 2020. i need to hear this lovely song.

Chanyeol has such a good taste in music, I love this song so much.

Whenever I listen this song, I feel emotions that I never felt.

I'm running away from my feelings so i can proudly stand beside you as your friend. I thought it's better this way, but then i listen to this song over and over again. I'm a hypocrite.

Still remember every single memories in this song since 2012, till now 2021 and still be a beautiful song for me. how time goes so fast 😇

so beautiful. calms me every time i hear it

Here is Midnight right now. And i heard it for first time from radio. Makes me missing someone and idk, my tears falling down. I love this song. Really... It's deep.

Through the alleyways, To cool off in the shadows, Then into the street, Following the water, There's a bearded man, Paddling in his canoe, Looks as if he has, Come all the way from the Cayman Islands, These canals, it seems, They all go in circles, Places look the same, And we're the only difference, The wind is in your hair, It's covering my view, I'm holding on to you, On a bike we've hired until tomorrow, If only they could see, If only they had been here, They would understand, How someone could have chosen, To go the length I've gone, To spend just one day riding, Holding on to you, I never thought it would be this clear.

October 2020, and still a beautiful song

My fave song of the band....whenever I feel lonely...or feel sad, I come back to this song and feel like continuing with my life again. Thank you guys.

Their songs are always good with reading Haruki Murakami. :D

So cozy

너무좋아서 매일 밤마다 듣는중

I comeback here to see and feel Cayman islands again. Time flies so fast aaaaah. It's already 8 yrs. The vibe still same💜

Tuve la oportunidad de hace dias conocer a Erlend. Se presentó en mi ciudad y es muy sencillo y cercano con su publico, además de muy apasionado por su música y la de los chicos que le acompañaban en el escenario con instrumentos. Con decir que hasta se bajó del escenario para estar con la gente y ver a sus chicos tocar 😊😊

Whoever listens to this song in 2023 has good taste in music❤