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.
Tried to save the trees
Bought a plastic bag
The bottom fell out
It was a piece of crap
Saw it on the tube
Bought it on the phone
Now you're home alone
It's a piece of crap
I tried to plug in it
I tried to turn it on
When I got it home
It was a piece of crap
Got it from a friend
On him you can depend
I found out in the end
It was a piece of crap
I'm trying to save the trees
I saw it on TV
They cut the forest down
To build a piece of crap
I went back to the store
They gave me four more
The guy told me at the door
It's a piece of crap
Bought a plastic bag
The bottom fell out
It was a piece of crap
Saw it on the tube
Bought it on the phone
Now you're home alone
It's a piece of crap
I tried to plug in it
I tried to turn it on
When I got it home
It was a piece of crap
Got it from a friend
On him you can depend
I found out in the end
It was a piece of crap
I'm trying to save the trees
I saw it on TV
They cut the forest down
To build a piece of crap
I went back to the store
They gave me four more
The guy told me at the door
It's a piece of crap
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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.
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"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..."
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Nope. 1994. "Sleeps With Angels" album. With Crazy Horse.
The album is a bit morbid because it deals with the death of Kurt Cobain, who quoted from "Hey Hey My My" in the suicide note and the death of a friend's daughter in a mistaken driveby shooting (see "Driveby").
It think it's a great song. It's a bit of relief on the album from the rest of the gloom. Kind of like how "Come On Baby, Let's Go Downtown" is relief on "Tonight's The Night".
I see its antecedents more as being "Welfare Mothers" and "Fucking Up".<br /> "Come on Baby, Let's Go Downtown" certainly acts as relief from the prevailing mood on "Tonight's The Night", but its main role is to explain the mood of the rest of the album: It was Danny's junk song.<br /> <br /> Still, good post!
yeah I don't see the appeal here. It does just seem to be about shitty products though.
buyer beware.
sometimes Neil Young writes brilliant songs, songs that really speak to you. And sometimes he writes this.
Everytime I read these lyrics, I can't help but laugh. Not in a condescending sense at all! I just think, the brutal simplicity is...FUNNY HAHAHA.
This an awesome song, don't see why everybody seems to hate this song. Just because its not incredibly intelligent. And anyways he's written worse
He's also written better.
LMAO! These lyrics crack me up everytime i read them.
Name a worse Neil song.
T-Bone could have been shorter...
This song is pure gold, for the simple reason that it is just blunt and to the point and the humor in it makes me laugh every time I hear it. Even though the fans expect Neil to be arty and clever, I like the contrast here, and it is funny that so many people think this is dumbed down for Neil, when in essence it is a statement about the general public's gullibility to keep buying what is being sold to them without question.