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.
Walking o rooftops
Talking of time
Little eyes are glowing like the city lights
She stands on the ledge she says:
"looks so high
you know, it's a long way down
it's like a long way down
it feels like a long way down
like a long way down"
oh honey, don't please
don't please
please, don't leave me now
'cause I can feel the rivers
winding through the lands
two lines in a poem
(you know) like a kind of rhyme
you know, it could talk in a language only we understand
(you know)
(honey)
It's a long way down
long way down
it feels like a long way down
oh, it feels like a long way down
oh honey, don't please
don't please
please, don't leave me now
Talking of time
Little eyes are glowing like the city lights
She stands on the ledge she says:
"looks so high
you know, it's a long way down
it's like a long way down
it feels like a long way down
like a long way down"
oh honey, don't please
don't please
please, don't leave me now
'cause I can feel the rivers
winding through the lands
two lines in a poem
(you know) like a kind of rhyme
you know, it could talk in a language only we understand
(you know)
(honey)
It's a long way down
long way down
it feels like a long way down
oh, it feels like a long way down
oh honey, don't please
don't please
please, don't leave me now
Lyrics submitted by jarieth15
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Punchline
Ed Sheeran
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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.
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.
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.
The song is basically about a heart broken woman who just can't get over all the wonderful times spent with her lover. She is disillusioned but forces her mind to reject the bitter truth. There is also a suicide vibe to it as the woman feels that "it's a long way down" from the ledge of a roof so high that overlooks the city where they once had a joyful time. The song beautifully enunciates the foolery of a particular broken-hearted feminine lover.
Correction in my above paragraph: ...............so high, that it overlooks the city.........
This song was used in the movie The Fault In Our Stars. I guess it's about how sometimes your time to love someone is limited. You enjoy that, live in all seconds and don't miss even one but you know it's not going to last! You beg for it not to finish but it's out of control.
When i listen to this song, I think of a pair who are so deep in love. She says, "It looks so high" - cuz they've come so far. "Standing on the ledge . . . Feels like a long way down".
"You know we could talk in that language Only we understand" shows the depth of their connection.
Hence the final statement: "So honey don't leave, don't leave Please don't leave me now".
Their love has taken them so high that loosing it would be a free fall