Piano ballad “No Strings” salutes the galvanizing strength of his love for Seaborn, and fatherhood brings light and warmth in on “Dusty,” where he recounts playing favorite albums for his young daughter. However, optimism and fortitude flood through as he looks to his family. On “Eyes Closed,” Sheeran’s isolated and unfastened by Edwards’ sudden passing, before “Sycamore” places us in a doctor’s waiting room as Sheeran and his pregnant wife Cherry Seaborn steel themselves for news about her tumor diagnosis. There are passages of arresting sadness here. It’s not a switch that you can just go, ‘Now I feel fine.’ It’s something that is constantly there and it’s either here or it’s here or it’s here.” “Everyone you ever speak to, they go, ‘I’m doing so much better now.’ And I don't believe them, because I don’t anyone at any point is just fixed. “I find this a lot when my friends are going through things,” he says. It’s not a simple outpouring, though these are songs that attempt to process events, the work of a songwriter who’s learned that trauma and anxiety are not obstacles to overcome and bury, but experiences that you absorb, live with, and, hopefully, draw strength from. I feel like, if I want to cry, I can cry.” I don’t want to, I don’t feel like I have to. I will never, ever, ever get over Jamal dying at 31. “‘Boat’ is about resilience: ‘I know that I’m never going to be all right, but whatever waves come, I’m going to remain floating.’ Your life can fit around grief. About 40 seconds into opening track “Boat,” he sings, “They say that all scars will heal but I know/Maybe I won’t/But the waves won't break my boat.” Written in the wake of-and during-deeply challenging times, - is “an album about grief and depression and stuff,” as Sheeran tells Apple Music’s Zane Lowe. It doesn’t take long for Ed Sheeran to reveal the heart of his sixth album.
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