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.
O come all ye faithful
Joyful and triumphant
O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem
Come and behold him
Born the King of Angels
O come let us adore him, O come let us adore him
O come let us adore him, Christ the Lord
Sing choirs of angels
Sing in exaltation
Oh sing all ye citizens of Heaven above
Glory to God
All glory in the highest
O come let us adore him, O come let us adore him
O come let us adore him, Christ the Lord
Yeah Lord we greet thee
Born this happy morning
O Jesus to thee be all glory given
Word of the Father
Now in flesh appearing
O come let us adore him,
O come let us adore him,
O come let us adore him,
Christ the Lord,
Christ the Lord
O come let us adore him
Christ the Lord
Joyful and triumphant
O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem
Come and behold him
Born the King of Angels
O come let us adore him, O come let us adore him
O come let us adore him, Christ the Lord
Sing choirs of angels
Sing in exaltation
Oh sing all ye citizens of Heaven above
Glory to God
All glory in the highest
O come let us adore him, O come let us adore him
O come let us adore him, Christ the Lord
Yeah Lord we greet thee
Born this happy morning
O Jesus to thee be all glory given
Word of the Father
Now in flesh appearing
O come let us adore him,
O come let us adore him,
O come let us adore him,
Christ the Lord,
Christ the Lord
O come let us adore him
Christ the Lord
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Punchline
Ed Sheeran
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Midnight
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“Midnight” is a song about finding a love that is so true that it provides a calming feeling through every storm. Ed Sheeran reflects on his good fortunes in landing someone with such peace and support and speaks of not fearing the dark days because he knows they’ll all end in the safety nets of her arms.
“Well, good morning there / What a way to start the day / With everything laid bare,” Ed Sheeran sings in the first verse, enthusiastic to be waking up beside his woman. He apologizes for missing her calls in the second verse and promises to return them because for him, speaking to her is the most important thing. “Well, I get lost inside my head / In this chaos, you’re my calm / And I will find my feet again / ‘Cause еven the worst days of my life will always еnd / At midnight in your arms,” sings Ed Sheeran in the chorus, revelling in his good luck.

Another Love
Tom Odell
Tom Odell
I think the meaning is pretty clear. This person got really burned in a previous relationship, and because of this is unable to love and show care in his present one, even though he so badly wants to. It's lovely song, and very sad. You can really feel how defeated and frustrated he is with himself.

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
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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.

Me and Johnny
Matt Paxton
Matt Paxton
Moyet later described how her song "Goodbye 70's" had been inspired by her disillusionment with how the late-1970s punk scene had turned out, saying, "'Goodbye 70's' is about punk and not caring how you were dressed, and then I discovered that so many of my friends that I'd thought it all really meant something to just saw it as another trend... That's what 'Goodbye 70's' was all about, about how sour the whole thing became."