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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This song is about a women who is a drug addict. She has to have sex so she can pay for her drugs. She uses all of her money on drugs so she is homeless. "Class A Team" is referring to drugs. She eventually commits suicide.
Hopefully this helped you guys! :)
*This is my thought and my opinion. I hope you take that into consideration! :)
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I believe that this song is about a young girl who sells herself away to men to be able to buy drugs, she hates the way her life is and it is a struggle to get anywhere in life but she still tries
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The song A team is about a troubled woman living on the streets since she was eighteen. The composer talks about her life in a perspective that no one else sees.
“Breathing in snowflakes” refers to the woman being homeless, perhaps in winter. “Burnt lungs, sour taste” talks about how the drugs/cigarette smoke burn her lungs and leave a sour taste.
“She’s in the class A team” is a way of saying she is a Heroine user. Heroine is a class A drug, users often say that they are in the Class A. “her face seems, Slowly sinking, wasting Crumbling like pastries” describes to us how she looks, creating an image in our minds.
“And they scream, The worst things in life come free to us” this line refers to the violence she receives. “we're just under the upper hand, And go mad for a couple grams” talks about how she’d go mad for a couple of grams of drugs. “in a pipe she flies to the motherland” the word pipe may symbolize the straw used in drugs or a train.
“Ripped gloves, raincoat, Tried to swim and stay afloat, Dry house, wet clothes, Loose change, bank notes, Weary-eyed, dry throat, Call girl, no phone” these lines talk about the woman’s poverty.
I selected this song because it has a deeper meaning than people think. Ed Sheeran talks about the woman living on the street in his own perspective. He talks about her life and what she goes through every day. Themes this song falls under are homelessness, life, secrets, women and drugs. -
The A Team in short, is about a girl who uses drugs. Being in the Class A Team means being on drugs and apparently she's been that way since she was 18 years old but it is starting to get worse. Unfortunately, she has resorted to having 'love' with other men to make money to pay for her drug habit. I believe that when the lyrics say "It's too cold outside for angels to fly," refers to how there is too much evil/cold in the world for a good person like her (an angel) to fly/get out of her bad situation. So predictably, she dies as there's only so long you can be on such a bad habit before, well, meeting the end of your time. I hope this helped.
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If you look up the song Little Lady feat. Mikill Pane, it describes the real reason.~~
This song is about a 18 year old girl, who is addicted to heroine. ("Shes in the class A Team" is a type of drug under the main classification of heroine.) She needs to have sex with random men to feed her addiction. ("Sells love to another man" and that line is kinda self explanatory.) She doesn't have a home, because all her money goes to drugs and the little food her body allows her to eat. ("white lips, pale face. Breathing in the snowflakes. It's too cold for angels to fly" Meaning she is out in the snow, and she close to verge of death.)She is trying, but not succeeding, in getting a new life. ("Ripped gloves, rain coat, try to swim and stay afloat." Means she is trying, but failing to become sober.) The young girl is a good person, but life it hard and bad. ("The worst things in life come free to us." She is a nice person, but probably leaving home or a death to her parents hurt her too much. ~my own interpolation there~ and she turned to drugs to numb the pain.)
I know that the song "Little Lady" describes a friend of hers whom she met on the street and gives more description in their lives. -
It's about a crack whore who freezes to death in the cold.
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A good, sad song about a girl named Angel who is ddicted to heroin. In the song she does anything she has to to fuel her addiction "long nights, strange men". At the end of the song she dies because of her excessive use of the drug.
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ok we all agree its about a drug addicted prostitute but i think she caught hiv...in other words.. lately her health is fading hence the "worse" things in life come free. sex amd drugs cost but not illness
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The song is about a prostitute with a drug addiction -cocaine. In the UK cocaine(or snowflakes) is a class A drug- the best / most addictive / most illegal you could get. 'Flies to the motherland, & sells lo e to another man' she gets high on cocaine then sells herself to a man for money for more drugs.
He wrote this song after volunteering at a homeless shelter with some of his mates. He learned this girls story, then turned it into an amazingly brilliant song.<3 -
I think "The A Team" is a real life story about a girl who could have done something with her life and she just didn't have the will. this song is not just about a stupid prostitute it is saying how she tried to do something about it but she was to late. it goes to say that you shouldn't and you don't have to throw your life away if your depressed and no I'm not saying you should go kill yourself you are perfect and you could be the next big scientist and discover the cure to the most deadly disease and save millions of life but instead you took yours. trust me you are amazing.
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This song is about a woman who has had an uphill battle against her addiction to cocaine. She sells sex to fund her addiction, despite the depravity making her crave more coke. She runs into a man, (the one whose perspective the song is from) who has heard her story. He offers a place to stay but she refuses, claiming all he wants is money. The woman ends up committing suicide, her note saying in shaky, scrawled letters, "It's too cold outside.. Always so cold...."
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