“Plastic Bag” is a song about searching for an escape from personal problems and hoping to find it in the lively atmosphere of a Saturday night party. Ed Sheeran tells the story of his friend and the myriad of troubles he is going through. Unable to find any solutions, this friend seeks a last resort in a party and the vanity that comes with it.
“I overthink and have trouble sleepin’ / All purpose gone and don’t have a reason / And there’s no doctor to stop this bleedin’ / So I left home and jumped in the deep end,” Ed Sheeran sings in verse one. He continues by adding that this person is feeling the weight of having disappointed his father and doesn’t have any friends to rely on in this difficult moment. In the second verse, Ed sings about the role of grief in his friend’s plight and his dwindling faith in prayer. “Saturday night is givin’ me a reason to rely on the strobe lights / The lifeline of a promise in a shot glass, and I’ll take that / If you’re givin’ out love from a plastic bag,” Ed sings on the chorus, as his friend turns to new vices in hopes of feeling better.
I love to love your love my love
i love to love your love my love
i love to love your love my love
yes it's true
yes it's true
love is a thing that i do
it's crazy i kissed you when we met
and maybe i'd do it again with parental consent
but even if they both resist my mack-mode is constantly on
why am i wasting time writing rhymes when i could be out scoring more tail
i love (my love) to love (your love) your love (to love) my love (i love)
i love (my love) to love (your love) your love (to love) my love (i love)
i love (my love) to love (your love) your love (to love) my love (i love)
yes it's true
yes it's true
love is a thing that i do
i'd be crazy if i ever got into your pants
and maybe we could safety dance
'cause your friends all dance and i know you don't dance
soon your friends will become friends of mine
out of sympathy you'll go out with me, you fly ass b****
damn you're so fine
damn, you're so fine
remember we kissed when we were twelve
and baby help me through pre-adolescent hell
it can't be wrong to feel so strong now that we're all hairy and grown
i can't go on smoking bongs and getting myself so stoned
i love to love your love my love
i love to love your love my love
yes it's true
yes it's true
love is a thing that i do
it's crazy i kissed you when we met
and maybe i'd do it again with parental consent
but even if they both resist my mack-mode is constantly on
why am i wasting time writing rhymes when i could be out scoring more tail
i love (my love) to love (your love) your love (to love) my love (i love)
i love (my love) to love (your love) your love (to love) my love (i love)
i love (my love) to love (your love) your love (to love) my love (i love)
yes it's true
yes it's true
love is a thing that i do
i'd be crazy if i ever got into your pants
and maybe we could safety dance
'cause your friends all dance and i know you don't dance
soon your friends will become friends of mine
out of sympathy you'll go out with me, you fly ass b****
damn you're so fine
damn, you're so fine
remember we kissed when we were twelve
and baby help me through pre-adolescent hell
it can't be wrong to feel so strong now that we're all hairy and grown
i can't go on smoking bongs and getting myself so stoned
Lyrics submitted by keyshawn03
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Plastic Bag
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
Plastic Bag
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“Plastic Bag” is a song about searching for an escape from personal problems and hoping to find it in the lively atmosphere of a Saturday night party. Ed Sheeran tells the story of his friend and the myriad of troubles he is going through. Unable to find any solutions, this friend seeks a last resort in a party and the vanity that comes with it.
“I overthink and have trouble sleepin’ / All purpose gone and don’t have a reason / And there’s no doctor to stop this bleedin’ / So I left home and jumped in the deep end,” Ed Sheeran sings in verse one. He continues by adding that this person is feeling the weight of having disappointed his father and doesn’t have any friends to rely on in this difficult moment. In the second verse, Ed sings about the role of grief in his friend’s plight and his dwindling faith in prayer. “Saturday night is givin’ me a reason to rely on the strobe lights / The lifeline of a promise in a shot glass, and I’ll take that / If you’re givin’ out love from a plastic bag,” Ed sings on the chorus, as his friend turns to new vices in hopes of feeling better.
Somewhere Only We Know
Keane
Keane
Per the FAQ on Keane's website, Keane's drummer Richard Hughes, stated the following:
"We've been asked whether "Somewhere Only We Know" is about a specific place, and Tim has been saying that, for him, or us as individuals, it might be about a geographical space, or a feeling; it can mean something individual to each person, and they can interpret it to a memory of theirs... It's perhaps more of a theme rather than a specific message... Feelings that may be universal, without necessarily being totally specific to us, or a place, or a time..."
With the nostalgic sentiment and the overall tone of the song, I think Keane is attempting to express a Portuguese term known as 'saudade', which does not have a direct English translation but roughly means "that which we remember because it is gone."
Zombie
Cranberries, The
Cranberries, The
"Zombie" is about the ethno-political conflict in Ireland. This is obvious if you know anything of the singer (Dolores O'Riordan)'s Irish heritage and understood the "1916" Easter Rising reference.
"Another head hangs lowly
Child is slowly taken
And the violence caused such silence
Who are we mistaken
-
Another mother's breaking
Heart is taking over"
Laments the Warrington bomb attacks in which two children were fatally injured on March 23rd, 1993. Twelve year old Tim Parry was taken off life support with permission from his mother after five days in the hospital, virtually braindead.
"But you see it's not me
It's not my family"
References how people who are not directly involved with the violence feel about it. They are "zombies" without sympathy who refuse to take action while others suffer.
Sunglasses at Night
Corey Hart
Corey Hart
In the 1980s, sunglasses were a common fashion for people who wanted to adopt a "tough guy" persona (note all the cop shows from that era -- Simon & Simon, Miami Vice, etc. -- where the lead characters wore shades). So I think this song is about a guy who wears shades as a way of hiding his insecurity after learning that his girlfriend is cheating on him. He's trying to pretend that he's a "tough guy" to hide the fact that his girlfriend's affair is disturbing him.