Ed Sheeran: The A Team Meaning
Song Released: 2011
The A Team Lyrics
Breathing in snowflakes
Burnt lungs, sour taste
Light's gone, day's end
Struggling to pay rent
Long nights, strange men
And they say
She's in the Class A Team
Stuck in her daydream
Been this way since 18
But...
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#1 top rated interpretation:The plot of the song consists of a young prostitute who suffers from abuse and drug addiction and becomes weaker throughout the song, and then dies at the end. These words in the chorus of the song represent her struggles that she has had in life and that others have said about her.
'The worst things in life come free to us':
This shows that the girl has undergone abuse/threat/fear and considers these the 'worst things in life'. By saying they 'come free', it shows that she doesn't have a choice and it is least desirable. It also displays irony as the prostitution industry includes the trading of money- however she feels these things are worse.
'Cos we're just under the upper hand'.
This can signify her class, showing that the middle class have the 'upper hand' and control her. It can also show that there is always a chance of just getting abused by what is more powerful than you.
'And go mad for a couple grams'.
This shows her desire to get high and how her addiction takes over her life and decisions. -
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#3 top rated interpretation:This song is about a young girl who's homeless possibly, living out in the cold and is addicted to drugs, as said in the lyrics 'white lips pale face breathing in snowflakes'. The drugs are burning her lungs and killing her but she keeps taking them. She doesn't earn enough money and struggles to pay her rent. To earn enough money for her drugs she is a prostitute and sells her body to men. Being on the class a team means she's on drugs and she's been this way since 18 years old. Never been good enough for anyone and anything, she is alone. It talks about how the world is too evil and cruel for an angel like her to be happy and live her life. "An angel to die covered in white' everything got to much for her and she eventually killed herself with the drugs coarsing through her veins and covering her body in white.
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This song is about a poor girl who was trapped in a world of drugs and prostitution.
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This song is about a woman who is a drug addict. She basically will do anything to get more drugs, including picking up random strangers. In the video it makes clear that she is homeless,most likely because she spent all her money of drugs. In the music video, near the end, she hitches a ride with a random guy, and they end up hooking up (probably happens a lot to her). It shows multiple scenes, like taking off her leggings, them touching each other in 'dirty' ways, etc. But at the end she gets this drug, which she consumes and it kills her. It is a great video that matches the song, which makes it that much easier to interpret the song's meaning.
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Ed Sheeran explains in an interview that when he sang at a homeless shelter a girl named angel (hence the 'It's too cold outside for angels to fly') approached him and explained her story.
She is a homeless women who lives as a prostitute to earn money. The women also struggles with a drug addiction. The title (The A team) refers to crack being a class A drug and he uses this instead of blatantly saying she uses crack and hence disguises the addiction in his choice of wording. Some of the story is different to that of Angel's as Ed didn't wish to steal the story she openly told him. -
i think that it's about a girl who can't take the life that she's been given any longer so she decides to do drugs so that she doesn't have to take the pain of the world any longer. Also i think that she's tired of people judging her way of life even though it's all she's ever known to do to survive.
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The girl is in poverty, but is intelligent and Ed hopes that an "angel" will come save her so that she can be her true self.
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ed sheeran wrote this song after going with a friend to help out at a homeless shelter. he started singing and this homeless women called angel, started talking to him and telling him her story. everything in this song is about angel and her drug addiction and prostitution.
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'with a pipe she flies to the motherland, and sells love to another man' is strongly suggesting that she gets high and sells sex to people, just to afford more drugs. 'breathing in snowflakes' also suggests snowflakes being cocaine. as the further the song plays, Ed reveals more and more clues leading to the conclusion that this girl, young woman, hates her life. Ed also initiates that this is someone he knows, and someone he has tried to help before.
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The song is about a young woman with a good heart who is homeless and a prostitute because of her drug addiction. My friend told me she thought it was about dead people, but it's not.
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Drugs.
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I thought it was about dead people but it's actually about drug addiction,
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I like this song because I can relate to it. I am a recovering addict and when I watch this video it brings tears to my eyes. I know exactly ehat this song means because ive been there. Fortunately i didnt die. She was a beautiful girl with an addiction and would go as far as prostitution to get drugs. It killed her inside to have to do it thats why she crys in the bed in the video. In my opinion she was smoking heroin but who knows. I got to see ed sherran live the other night in Philadelphia and i cried when the song came on. Very touching and real. I hope addicts today are inspired by this video to change their lives around before its too late. Live sincerly. Amanda morelock
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The A team because she does drug in the class A like cocaïne or crack
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It is a song about a woman who is addicted to drugs and has to be a prostitute to pay for her addiction.
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This song is about a prostitute who is addicted to drugs. She spent all her money, so she's homeless. Instead of using the money she gets from prostitution to pay for a home, she uses it to buy more drugs.
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