A Team by Ed Sheeran
So I don’t really have a favorite song, but I chose A Team
by Ed Sheeran because that’s what I’m listening to. I think that two of the
main themes of this song are that life is not perfect at all, and that you have
to look deeper into someone before you judge them.
In
the chorus, he says, ‘But lately her face seems/ Slowly sinking, wasting/ Crumbling
like pastries/ And they scream/ The worst things in life come
free to us’ I think that he wants to express that we have to work for good things to
happen, but bad things can happen to anyone no matter how much they deserve it.
People sometime’s can’t deal with this, and turn to other things to try and
help them get through life. He also said, ‘Cos
we're just under the upperhand/ Go mad for a couple grams’,
which says that It’s not the girl’s fault entirely that she turned to drugs,
but her life in general. She needs something to keep her from becoming nothing,
and didn’t think that she could go to anyone. People can’t prevent bad things
from happening, and you can’t always judge people completely for making bad
choices.
Sheeran also
says that,’ Struggling to pay rent/ Long nights, strange men’,
which means that she needed to make money to try and survive, and she probably
didn’t think through turning to prostitution because she didn’t have time. She made
a bad decision, but she needed to do something and didn’t have anyone to guide
her. She shouldn’t be judged for that. People make bad choices when they are
stressed, or exhausted, or need help fast. And she couldn’t help that. I think
that people shouldn’t be that quick to judge others when they don’t know the
full story behind what they did.
So many
people are judged too harshly. Sometimes they had no other choice and did something
bad. Sometimes they don’t have people to help them and they don’t have a role
model to help them. No one knows this, so the person is an outcast. People don’t
have perfect lives, and if they want to become a better person with a better
life, they have to really work for it. As Sheeran said, ‘The worst things in
life come free to us’.
Jadyn!!!!! this is my favorite song!!!! i think you are absolutely right about the message. someone told me that the song was about the girl with all these issues in her life. i never really understood and analyze the words until i read your post. i always just sang them because i loved the song!!! great job Jadyn!!
ReplyDeleteHi Jadyn! great post! I agree with you that the worst things in life tend to be free. and even when good things happen in life, there are normally strings attached. It's really sad when you see people with nothing, or with horrible lives. You do not have to have any accomplishments to become a prostitute, and you get money, but it is horrible to be reduced to that sort of life. In the end, the best things in life need to be worked for, in one way or another.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree. It's a really sad but true song. To me the line from A Team that stood out to me the most was "It's too cold outside for angels to fly" because it's saying how even though this girl could be great and has what it takes to make her life worth more society and just the world is too cold and mean for her to do good and live well. Great post.
ReplyDeleteYou did a really good job analyzing the song! I think the part about her face crumbling like pastries (what an image) is about how this is a fragile person living in a bad situation.
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