![]() ![]() There is a huge difference between a singer who simply belts out a song that is on a page in front of them, and someone who can convey an entire experience with their voice. So, not a song about a poor girl, but a song of hope and how you can rise up no matter how far down you started. She's the one sitting in the drivers seat at the end. She didn't let the naysayers and judgers stop her. She not only stayed alive, she turned her hard beginnings around, became self sufficient, successful and someone with respect for herself. And the powerful spirit of a poor young girl being abandoned to her future with only a red dress and her wits to keep her alive. Takes me to the deep South and the poverty of some who lived thru truly hard times. This song captivates me still, after 50+ years. But it is a completely different song than the other one that sounds slapped together in a few takes without a thought for the meaning. The only reason it was remade was to scoop up a boatload of money from a more modern and accepting audience. Just listening for the 784,654th time.and it's just perfect in every way. ![]() “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. In the second verse, Ed sings about the role of grief in his friend’s plight and his dwindling faith in prayer. 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. “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. Unable to find any solutions, this friend seeks a last resort in a party and the vanity that comes with it. Ed Sheeran tells the story of his friend and the myriad of troubles he is going through. “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. I wish I could kill your cancer when I am black Reason: I wish I could kill your cancer when I am black You've drawn me into your magnet tar pit trap I've been locked in heart-shaped coffins for too many weeks I wish I could catch your cancer when I am black I asked me like a Pisces like when I've been weakĪnd in a magnet tar pit film on your trap (he wants to take away her pain, hes really truly upset) I wish I could eat your cancer when I am weak (she took down all his defenses and really got to him) (hes been searching himself for weeks, that or the opposite.hes been closing off his feelings) ![]() I've been buried in a heart-shaped box for weeks (a child looks at him sympathetically or compassionately when he is really emotional, hes probably touched that someone so young has cancer and it is even more touching that a person in such a life or death situation could still have empathy for another) Throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back Meat-eating orchids forgive no one just yetĬut myself on angel hair and baby's breathīroken hymen of Your Highness, I'm left black I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black I've been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap I've been locked inside your heart-shaped box for weeks
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