Wake Me Up

Album: + (2011)
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  • 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 shit 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 tryna 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 Writer/s: Edward Christopher Sheeran, Jake Nathan Gosling
    Publisher: BDI Music Limited, Royalty Network, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • AnonymousI think the very last bit here is wrong. I believe Sheeran himself has said that this was written at the house of the producer of the album, Jake Gosling.
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