“Blue” is a song about a love that is persisting in the discomfort of the person experiencing the emotion. Ed Sheeran reflects on love lost, and although he wishes his former partner find happiness, he cannot but admit his feelings are still very much there. He expresses the realization that he might never find another on this stringed instrumental by Aaron Dessner.
Found out I was washed away
Too late I'm a total liar
No sun I'm a total black
To run couldn't become lighter
All gone get this thing away
I run anything for mother
My son is a special day
No fool I'll accept this offer
Get gone take them both away
Your son, I can't use these children
This home nothing as it says
No smoke skin will fill this building
No way I was everything
I am, nothing quite so worthless
Too long salt is washed away
Oh gone, sink beneath the surface
Daydream nothing lets me fly
Too much I'm a total master
Compact, glad to be alive
All gone happy ever after
Feels like falling
But I can't die
I can't stop
My eyes I cant even see
All run not like being blinded
All gone nothing else to bleed
No fun stuck and broken minded
Feels like falling
But I can't die
I can't stop
Feels like nothing
And I'm alive
I'm not clean
Yellow, falling at you feet
To young I'm a total coward
Lets go anywhere to sleep
All numb every way is downward
Feels like falling
But I cant die
I can't stop
Feels like nothing
And I'm alive
I'm not clean
Too late I'm a total liar
No sun I'm a total black
To run couldn't become lighter
All gone get this thing away
I run anything for mother
My son is a special day
No fool I'll accept this offer
Get gone take them both away
Your son, I can't use these children
This home nothing as it says
No smoke skin will fill this building
No way I was everything
I am, nothing quite so worthless
Too long salt is washed away
Oh gone, sink beneath the surface
Daydream nothing lets me fly
Too much I'm a total master
Compact, glad to be alive
All gone happy ever after
Feels like falling
But I can't die
I can't stop
My eyes I cant even see
All run not like being blinded
All gone nothing else to bleed
No fun stuck and broken minded
Feels like falling
But I can't die
I can't stop
Feels like nothing
And I'm alive
I'm not clean
Yellow, falling at you feet
To young I'm a total coward
Lets go anywhere to sleep
All numb every way is downward
Feels like falling
But I cant die
I can't stop
Feels like nothing
And I'm alive
I'm not clean
Lyrics submitted by 2HY
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