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Welcome to Music Friday when we bring you wonderful songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics. Today, Ed Sheeran carves a heart pendant for his girlfriend in the 2011 love song, "Wake Me Up."
"Wake Me Up" is essentially a musical love letter to Sheeran's girlfriend, where the English singer/songwriter outlines all the characteristics and idiosyncrasies that make her so endearing.
Sheeran told The Sun, "I picked out every little thing about my ex-girlfriend that I thought was wicked (i.e. awesome) and put it into a song. There's a lyric about New Year's Day on Southwold Beach when I made her a necklace from two bits of chalk, which I carved into a heart."
In the song, he describes his romantic foray into jewelry-making...
"So I'll take you to the beach / And walk along the sand And I'll / Make you a heart pendant / With a pebble held in my hand / And I'll carve it like a necklace / So the heart falls where your chest is / And now a piece of me is a piece of the beach and it falls just where it needs to be / And rests peacefully / So you just need to breathe / To feel my heart against yours now / Against yours now."
In a beautifully turned phrase, Sheeran describes how he'd love to be wearing a wedding band on the ring finger of his left hand...
"See I could do without a tan / On my left hand, where my fourth finger meets my knuckle / And I should run you a hot bath / And fill it up with bubbles."
According to SongFacts.com, Sheeran penned "Wake Me Up" while poolside at the California residence of actor/singer/songwriter/comedian Jamie Foxx in 2010. Foxx had met Sheeran through a chance encounter at an open-mic night and was so impressed by his talent and potential that he invited Sheeran to perform on his radio show and to use his home recording studio.
Born in Hebden Bridge, England, in 1991, Sheeran sang in a church choir with his mother starting at the age of 4. He was inspired to pursue music as a career after having the opportunity to chat with Irish singer/songwriter Damien Rice. Although Sheeran was only 11 at the time, he still remembers the profound impact the meeting had on his life.
"I had a little bit of a chat and kind of had an epiphany, like 'Wow, this is exactly what I want to do!'" Sheeran told The Telegraph. "I got home that night and wrote a whole bunch of songs. I remember one was called 'Typical Average Teen.' Yeah, I was one of those."
At the age of 17, Sheeran moved to London, where he played small venues. In 2010, he bought a ticket to Los Angeles with no contacts or solid leads. All that changed when he met Foxx. Soon after, Sheeran was signed by Asylum Records.
His breakthrough song, “The A Team,” was nominated for Song of the Year at the 2013 Grammy Awards. A year later, he was nominated for Best New Artist at the 2014 Grammy Awards.
Please check out the video of Sheeran’s live performance of “Wake Me Up.” The lyrics are below if you’d like to sing along.
"Wake Me Up" Written by Ed Sheeran and Jake Gosling. Performed by Ed Sheeran.
I should ink my skin With your name And take my passport out again And just replace it
See I could do without a tan On my left hand, where my fourth finger meets my knuckle And I should run you a hot bath And fill it up with bubbles
'Cause maybe you're lovable And maybe you're my snowflake And your eyes turn from green to gray and in the winter I'll Hold you in a cold place And you should never cut your hair 'Cause I love the way you flick it off your shoulder
And you will never know just how beautiful you are to me But maybe I'm just in love when you wake me up And would you ever feel guilty If you did the same to me Would you make me a cup of tea To open my eyes in the right way And I know you love Shrek 'Cause we've watched it twelve times But maybe you're hoping for a fairy tale too And if your DVD breaks, today You shoulda got a VCR 'Cause I never owned a Blu-Ray True say
And now I've always been s*** at computer games and your brother always beats me And if I lost, I go all cross And chuck all the controllers at the TV And then you'd laugh at me And be asking me If I'm gonna be home next week And then you'd lie with me till I fall asleep And flutter eyelash on my cheek between the sheets
And you will never know just how beautiful you are to me But maybe I'm just in love when you wake me up
I think you hate the smell of smoke You always try'na get me to stop But you drink as much as me And I get drunk a lot
So I'll take you to the beach And walk along the sand And I'll Make you a heart pendant With a pebble held in my hand
And I'll carve it like a necklace So the heart falls where your chest is And now a piece of me is a piece of the beach and it falls just where it needs to be And rests peacefully So you just need to breathe To feel my heart against yours now Against yours now
'Cause maybe I'm just in love when you wake me up
Or maybe I'm just in love when you wake me up Maybe I fell in love when you woke me up
Credit: Image capture via YouTube.com.
