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Ed Sheeran is a more mature and responsible man since he got married and became a father. This song, the opening track of Equals, finds him summing up his life since the mid-2010s.

Sheeran starts the song letting us know he's embarrassed by some of his teenage behavior. Now that he's a father and successful musician, he's cut out the heavy drinking and party lifestyle because people depend on him.

Later on, Sheeran recounts some of his negative experiences over the last few years. Low fly zone, lawsuits, and film stars Headline wrote the princess and the face scar Broken bones, break-ins, and Babylon He's talking about: Plagiarism lawsuits for his songs "Thinking Out Loud" and "Photograph." Newspaper reports that Princess Beatrice accidentally slashed him with a ceremonial sword while pretending to knight James Blunt. In October 2017, Sheeran broke his wrist and elbow in a biking accident.