Old Phone

Album: Play (2025)
Charted: 17 89
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  • I found my old phone today
    In a box that I had hidden away
    Nostalgia tryin' to lead me astray
    Maybe I'll unwrite some wrongs
    I charged the battery again
    Combinations 'cause my passcode had changed
    Opened up and saw familiar names
    Now I wonder where they've gone

    Conversations with my dead friends
    Messages from all my exes
    I kinda think that this was best left
    There in the past, where it belongs
    I feel an overwhelming sadness
    Of all the friends I do not have left
    Seeing how my family has fractured
    Growin' up and movin' on

    I found my old phone today
    Arguments that I tried to keep at bay
    The ones who loved me, I just pushed them away
    Couldn't tell the difference from the leeches
    My closed hand still holds some mates
    But if I'm open, it gets smaller day by day
    Can't tell if it is pleasure or pain
    Trying to keep within my remit

    Conversations with my dead friends
    Messages from all my exes
    I kinda think that this was best left
    There in the past, where it belongs
    I feel an overwhelming sadness
    Of all the friends I do not have left
    Seeing how my family has fractured
    Growin' up and movin' on

    Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
    Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
    Ooh-ooh-ooh
    Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

    I found my old phone today
    So full of love, yet so full of hate
    I put it back inside there from whence it came
    Nothing good will come from regretting

    Conversations with my dead friends
    Messages from all my exes
    I kinda think that this was best left
    There in the past, where it belongs
    I feel an overwhelming sadness
    Of all the friends I do not have left
    Seeing how my family has fractured
    Growin' up and movin' on

    I found my old phone today Writer/s: Ed Sheeran
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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