The A Team

Author's Note: Let's just say, I got really sick of writing regular essays on books and decided to write something with how people interpreted the lyrics and in different ways.

One thing that nobody ever wants to get mixed up in or lost in is drugs. It is a tough thing to deal with, yet most people still struggle with it. The worst classification of drugs is, Class A. Singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran wrote a song called, The A Team. This song really hit him harder than he'd expected while writing, because it is so deep and heartfelt towards the people dealing with the problems. Several points of view came about while he was writing the song, and as it gradually became popular among the world. Listeners saw it differently, he saw it differently, and obviously people who were affected saw it differently.

 

Most people who listen to this song think that this song is about love or how his life is falling apart. In reality, that is not what is going on at all. Ed Sheeran's life is just becoming something, while he is watching others, about his age, whither away to nothing because of drugs. Some listeners didn't really care to look at the lyrics. If they had maybe looked at them, they would've realized that we don't live in a perfect world with everything perfect anywhere you turn. People struggle and this is their way of dealing with it. Listeners interpreted it much differently than the songwriter because in order to know what is going on, you have to pick it apart on your own, and really listen.

As Ed Sheeran was on stage at a homeless shelter, he looked into the crowd, saw who was around and realized something. There are people here who never made it far because they made some bad choices. Choices that could make them sick; sick enough to die. He was quite taken aback by things he saw and decided to write a song about it. Class A drugs, the category with cocaine and heroin. Those are the things these people where taken up in. And through his lyrics, he expresses how they are fading away slowly but surely because of the things that happened. "Instead of making it clear and just saying what the problem was, I'd say, 'She's in the 'class A' team.' It was kind of my way of covering up a person's addiction, I guess, making it a bit more subtle." That quote right there, is how he made his success, because he knew how to not make the obvious, obvious.

 

Those who are affected by the drugs themselves, probably can't interpret the song in the same ways that healthy people see it. Their minds are in a different state and they just don't notice things as quickly as others. Some of the drugs they were doing damages your body in ways that they didn't think would affect them in the long run. They probably listened to the song and decided that it was about something else. On the other hand, they might have seen it through the words and really understood that they made bad decisions and that normal people do notice that they have a problem but they never figured it out themselves. Being, they don't understand the song as in-depth as others.

The listeners, Ed Sheeran himself, and those affected all interpreted this song with different meaning. There are many different ways that you can see things in life and this song really represents that well. Not everybody was blessed with a faultless life, and this song really expresses it whether people see it through the words he wrote, or not.