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.
There's something crawling through your bloodstream that you loathe
But you don't know its name
The kind of wound that you can't feel until you see
That's what you are to me
So I'm a sinner on a hillside taking vows
But I don't know what for
'cause I'm ascetic 'til I see your open eyes
So I keep an idle mind
I was singing in the darkest tones that I could conjure up
'cause you were luminous but you were out of sight
You were lost in light
But you keep saying that you're jealous of my dreams
'cause you don't know them all
There's something telling me to serve a fallen Saint
Guess he survived the fall
Now I'm a sinner on the east side of the dawn
I'm always in the night
I was looking for the closest calls so I could just survive
'cause it was cavernous until I came outside
And I was lost in light
But how they polluted you just to draw you close
I must have been the stone weighing down your robes
So if we're switching sides, God forbid you grow
'cause you'd unravel me
But you don't know its name
The kind of wound that you can't feel until you see
That's what you are to me
So I'm a sinner on a hillside taking vows
But I don't know what for
'cause I'm ascetic 'til I see your open eyes
So I keep an idle mind
I was singing in the darkest tones that I could conjure up
'cause you were luminous but you were out of sight
You were lost in light
But you keep saying that you're jealous of my dreams
'cause you don't know them all
There's something telling me to serve a fallen Saint
Guess he survived the fall
Now I'm a sinner on the east side of the dawn
I'm always in the night
I was looking for the closest calls so I could just survive
'cause it was cavernous until I came outside
And I was lost in light
But how they polluted you just to draw you close
I must have been the stone weighing down your robes
So if we're switching sides, God forbid you grow
'cause you'd unravel me
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