Ed Sheeran: The A Team Meaning

Song Released: 2011

The A Team Lyrics

White lips, pale face
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...

1. anonymous

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   Dec 21st 2011 !⃝

   The song is about a girl who 'sells love' to men in order to pay for the drugs that she consumes and is addicted to, most likely the smoked kind, due to the reference to a 'pipe' and the line 'burnt lungs, sour taste'. Whatever she smokes is a 'Class A' prohibited drug.
   'Under the upperhand' also suggests that she is enduring physical violence by her clients. Despite her addiction, she hates her lifestyle, hence her not wanting to go outside.
   The last chorus replaces 'she' with 'we'. This suggests that the song is being told from the viewpoint of someone in a similar situation.
2. anonymous

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   Dec 11th 2011 !⃝

   The song is about drug additction..."white lips, pale face, breathing in snow flakes" shes homeless in the cold because of her addiction. "Burnt lungs sour taste" describes the feel when she smokes the drugs. "Shes in the class A Team" means shes at the top when it comes to drugs..."stuck in her day dream" shes stuck in a daydream that drugs rule her. "But lately her face seems slowly sinking, wasting crumbling like pastries" describes her appearance as unhealthy and 'crumbling'/decreasing. "The worst things in life come free to us" means you don't always go out looking for trouble, sometimes trouble finds us, hence it being "free" and it can really mess with us. The rest of the chorus talks about how we're just under the upper hand (rich) so we all go mad for a couple of drugs because in some way she wants to be like them. Then she flies to the motherland with her pipe of drugs and sells her love to other men to feed her addiction. She hopes for a better life...she doesn't want to go outside tonight becaue she really does want to stay inside securly with someone to love, but she is very lonely. In the video clip you can see how her addiction takes over her because she cries when she sleeps with the men...It's a very sad song and shows the truth in plain black and white of how your life can turn out when you get into these kind of things. Hope that helped :)
3. anonymous

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   Dec 7th 2011 !⃝

   at first i didnt really understand what it ment, i knew she was stripper but i thought it was just about that. with a much deeper meaning... she is addicted to drugs she will do anything to get money to get them, hence her sleeping with "strange men" her health deteriorates through the song and you can tell the drugs are damaging her. she eventually dies due to taking these drugs, you can tell she was a good girl a heart, a sweet girl, she just got caught up in the wrong things
4. anonymous

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   Nov 26th 2011 !⃝

   A girl has a drug addiction and doesn't have enough money to fund it so she goes into the prostotution business. with the money she earns she spends it on class A drugs,the girl is depressed about the way she acts and she gets iller and iller from the drugs causing her to die.
5. anonymous

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   Nov 24th 2011 !⃝

   I think this sing is about a girl who is a prostitute, who is just doing this occupation that she hates to get money. I think she dies in the end. She is addicted to the drug, and it describes how she is deterioating because of her addiction. Though drugs make her feel above the world. She just needs help, misunderstood and pushed away by the stereopical community. Such an amazing song, so deep <3
6. anonymous

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   Nov 11th 2011 !⃝

   Ed Sheeran explainsnthe meaning of this song on Gig At Your Gaff on YouTube. It's about when Ed went to help at a homeless centre with some of his mates. He was performing and he noticed signs that said "Angels Rules". He asked who Angel was and it was a young woman who used to break all the rules so they allow her to police the place so long as she doesn't break the rules. His mates to him her background story and he didn't believe them so he wrote a song about it.
7. anonymous

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   Nov 9th 2011 !⃝

   I think this song is about a girl who is addicted to drugs. Example: 'Class A team', referring to class a drugs. She is also a prostitute - 'late nights, strange men' and 'sells love to another man'. Then 'slowly sinking wasting', her face is getting thinner with the drugs and she's getting weaker throughout the song. Then at the end 'angels to die', she dies.
8. anonymous

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   Nov 2nd 2011 !⃝

   it's about a hooker on drugs.... pretty much :)
9. anonymous

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   Nov 2nd 2011 !⃝

   This is an amazing song about a young women who is a drug addict and has to sell her body to get money for her next fix,she hates doing this and her life,you can tell shes really a nice girl at heart but she has problems and nobody to help her...this song breaks my heart because its so close to reality for lots of young women out there today.
10. anonymous

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    Sep 1st 2011 !⃝

    a girl who goes around men to earn money for her addiction 'drugs' she dosn't like the way she is living.
11. anonymous

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    Jul 28th 2011 !⃝

    Definetely about a girl addicted to drugs, probably crack who sells her body to fund her addiction. The A team meaning Class A drugs.
12. anonymous

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    Jul 23rd 2011 !⃝

    The songs about a girl named angel who is addicted to drugs, although she cant help her addiction, she needs to sleep with random men to pay for her addiction, she has been doing this for years, "been this way since 18"she hates doing this and is fed up emotionally and physically, "she dont wanna go outside tonight" she hates her life but when she smokes she feels in heaven, "in a pipe she flies to the motherlands"

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