ED SHEERAN - SUPERMARKET FLOWERS

SUPERMARKET FLOWERS

ED SHEERAN

SONGWRITER: ED SHEERAN; JOHNNY MCDAID & BENJAMIN LEVIN

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: DIVIDE

LABEL: ASYLUM RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 2017

 

          Edward Christopher Sheeran MBE (/ˈʃɪərən/; born 17 February 1991) is an English singer, songwriter, record producer, musician, actor, and businessman. After first recording music in 2004, he began gaining attention through YouTube. In early 2011, Sheeran independently released the extended play, Nº 5 Collaborations Project. He signed with Asylum Records the same year.

        Sheeran's debut album, + (pronounced "plus"), was released in September 2011 and topped the UK Albums Chart. It contained his first hit single "The A Team". In 2012, Sheeran won the Brit Awards for Best British Male Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act. Sheeran's second studio album, × (pronounced "multiply"), was released in June 2014. It was named the second-best-selling album worldwide of 2015. In the same year, × won Album of the Year at the 2015 Brit Awards, and he received the Ivor Novello Award for Songwriter of the Year from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. A single from ×, "Thinking Out Loud", earned him the 2016 Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance.

        Sheeran's third album, ÷(pronounced "divide"), was released in March 2017, and was the best-selling album worldwide of 2017. The first two singles from the album, "Shape of You" and "Castle on the Hill", broke records in a number of countries by debuting in the top two positions of the charts. He also became the first artist to have two songs debut in the US top 10 in the same week. By March 2017, Sheeran had accumulated ten top 10 singles from ÷ on the UK Singles Chart, breaking the record for most top 10 UK singles from one album. His fourth single from ÷, "Perfect", reached number one in the US, Australia and the UK, where it became the Christmas number one in 2017. The world's best-selling artist of 2017, he was named the Global Recording Artist of the Year. Released in 2019, his fourth studio álbum Nº.6 Collaborations Project debuted at number one in most major markets, and spawned three UK number one singles, "I Don't Care", "Beautiful People" and "Take Me Back to London".

        Supermarket Flowers is a song by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran. It was included on his third studio álbum ÷(2017). After the album's release it charted at number 8 on the UK Singles Chart. It was released as a promotional single following Sheeran's performance at the 2018 Brit Awards.

 

I took the supermarket flowers from the windowsill

I threw the day old tea from the cup

Packed up the photo album Matthew had made

Memories of a life that's been loved

 

Took the Get Well Soon cards and stuffed animals

Poured the old ginger beer down the sink

Dad always told me: Don't you cry when you're down

But mum, there's a tear every time that I blink

 

Oh, I'm in pieces, it's tearing me up, but I know

A heart that's broke is a heart that's been loved

 

So I'll sing hallelujah

You were an angel in the shape of my mum

When I fell down you'd be there holding me up

Spread your wings as you go

And when God takes you back He'll say: Hallelujah, you're home

 

I fluffed the pillows, made the beds, stacked the chairs up

Folded your nightgowns neatly in a case

John says he'd drive then put his hand on my cheek

And wiped a tear from the side of my face

 

I hope that I see the world as you did, 'cause I know

A life with love is a life that's been lived

 

So I'll sing hallelujah

You were an angel in the shape of my mum

When I fell down you'd be there holding me up

Spread your wings as you go

And when God takes you back He'll say: Hallelujah, you're home

 

Hallelujah

You were an angel in the shape of my mum

You got to see the person I have become

Spread your wings and I know

That when God took you back He said: Hallelujah, you're home