Ed Sheeran sings about missing his former partner and learning important life lessons in the process on “Punchline.” This track tells a story of battling to get rid of emotions for a former lover, whom he now realized might not have loved him the same way. He’s now caught between accepting that fact and learning life lessons from it and going back to beg her for another chance.
Visits to you are suddenly new
and suddenly everything's sacred
I've been here before
Will I be here again?
Please tell me you'll never be taken
Is this another time
Or is this the last time
How much more time
When will time take away my visits to you
Living with this, holding you hand
Knowing I'll have to let go soon
Living right now and right now and right now
Knowing I'll soon be without you
Is this another time
Or is this the last time
How much more time
When will time take away my visits to you
And when you go where your going
Where will you be going
I know I'll keep going
On my visits to you
Is this another time
Or is this the last time
How much more time
When will time take away my visits to you
Is this another time
Or is this the last time
How much more time
When will time take away my visits to you
When will time take away
When will time take away
When will time take away my visits to you
and suddenly everything's sacred
I've been here before
Will I be here again?
Please tell me you'll never be taken
Is this another time
Or is this the last time
How much more time
When will time take away my visits to you
Living with this, holding you hand
Knowing I'll have to let go soon
Living right now and right now and right now
Knowing I'll soon be without you
Is this another time
Or is this the last time
How much more time
When will time take away my visits to you
And when you go where your going
Where will you be going
I know I'll keep going
On my visits to you
Is this another time
Or is this the last time
How much more time
When will time take away my visits to you
Is this another time
Or is this the last time
How much more time
When will time take away my visits to you
When will time take away
When will time take away
When will time take away my visits to you
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I just want to say that I am in love with Anthony Rapp, and I think that this song is absolutely amazing. To me, it seems that this song is about someone who is dying. It reminds me of when my grandpa was dying in the hospital...we knew that he was dying, and so it was always a question when we would go visit him if that was the last time.
I just want to say that I am in love with Anthony Rapp, and I think that this song is absolutely amazing. To me, it seems that this song is about someone who is dying. It reminds me of when my grandpa was dying in the hospital...we knew that he was dying, and so it was always a question when we would go visit him if that was the last time.
I think it's about his mother dying. It's a really sad, beautiful song.
I think it's about his mother dying. It's a really sad, beautiful song.
there is a great video of anthony singing this live on youtube.com and he says that he wrote this as a tribute to his mother.
Yes, this song is about his mother dying. He was performing RENT on broadway at the time, and he took any chance he could to go back home to visit her, knowing her time was coming soon, but not knowing exactly when.
I love the emotion of that story in this song.