Photograph

    Artist: Ed Sheeran

    Loving can hurt, loving can hurt sometimes

    But it’s the only thing that I know

    When it gets hard, you know it can get hard sometimes

    It is the only thing that makes us feel alive

    We keep this love in a photograph

    We made these memories for ourselves

    Where our eyes are never closing

    Hearts are never broken

    And time’s forever frozen still

    So you can keep me

    Inside the pocket of your ripped jeans

    Holding me closer ’til our eyes meet

    You won’t ever be alone, wait for me to come home

    Loving can heal, loving can mend your soul

    And it’s the only thing that I know, know

    I swear it will get easier,

    Remember that with every piece of you

    Hm, and it’s the only thing we take with us when we die

    ...

    And if you hurt me

    That’s okay baby, only words bleed

    Inside these pages you just hold me

    And I won’t ever let you go

    Wait for me to come home

    You can fit me

    Inside the necklace you got when you were 16

    Next to your heartbeat where I should be

    Keep it deep within your soul

    ...

    When I’m away, I will remember how you kissed me

    Under the lamppost back on Sixth Street

    Hearing you whisper through the phone,

    “Wait for me to come home.”

    Background

    “Photograph” is the fifth single from singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran’s multi-award winning second studio album “x.” He attempts to spin his heartbreaks into an empathetic cry for shambling twentysomethings. “Loving can hurt sometimes/But it’s the only thing that I know,” he concludes on “Photograph,” which lets its careful piano keys and acoustic strums simmer until arena-size drums kick in.