There aren’t many things that’ll hurt more than giving love a chance against your better judgement only to have your heart crushed yet again. Ed Sheeran tells such a story on “Page.” On this track, he is devastated to have lost his lover and even more saddened by the feeling that he may never move on from this.
Last night i dug your picture out from my old dresser drawer
I set it on the table and i talked to it 'til four
I read some old love letters right up 'til the break of dawn
Yeah i've been sittin' alone diggin' up bones
Then i went to the jewelery and i found our wedding rings
I've put mine on my finger and i gave yours a fling
I crossed this lonely bedroom of our recent broken home
Yeah tonight i'm sittin' alone diggin' up bones
(CHORUS)
I'm diggin' up bones,i'm diggin' up bones
Exhuming things that better left alone
I'm resurrecting memories of love that's and gone
Yeah tonight i'm sittin' alone diggin' up bones
And i went to the closet and i found some things in there
Like that pretty neglige that i bought you to wear
And i recall how good you looked each time you had it on
Yeah tonight i'm sittin' alone diggin' up bones
Chorus.
I'm resurrecting memories of love that's and gone
Yeah tonight i'm sittin' alone diggin' up bones
I set it on the table and i talked to it 'til four
I read some old love letters right up 'til the break of dawn
Yeah i've been sittin' alone diggin' up bones
Then i went to the jewelery and i found our wedding rings
I've put mine on my finger and i gave yours a fling
I crossed this lonely bedroom of our recent broken home
Yeah tonight i'm sittin' alone diggin' up bones
(CHORUS)
I'm diggin' up bones,i'm diggin' up bones
Exhuming things that better left alone
I'm resurrecting memories of love that's and gone
Yeah tonight i'm sittin' alone diggin' up bones
And i went to the closet and i found some things in there
Like that pretty neglige that i bought you to wear
And i recall how good you looked each time you had it on
Yeah tonight i'm sittin' alone diggin' up bones
Chorus.
I'm resurrecting memories of love that's and gone
Yeah tonight i'm sittin' alone diggin' up bones
Lyrics submitted by Stoney
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Plastic Bag
Ed Sheeran
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“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.

Trouble Breathing
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Alkaline Trio
While the obvious connections with suicide or alcoholism could be drawn easily, more subtly this song could be about someone who views the world through a negative lens constantly and how as much as the writer tries to show the beauty in the world, this person refuses to see it. It's one or another between the rope and the bottle. There is no good option for this person. They can't see it. Skiba sings it in a kind of exasperated way like He's tired of hearing this negative view constantly and just allowing that person to continue feeling the way they feel knowing he can't do anything about it. You can hear it when he says maybe you're a vampire.

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.

Sunglasses at Night
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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.
This song is a sad one b/c it reminds me of my mom and dad.