Ed Sheeran Speaks Out After New Songs Spark Speculation About His Marriage

Ed Sheeran has opened up about his songwriting process after his latest material sparked speculation about his marriage.

Last week, the four-time Grammy winner unveiled the deluxe edition of his latest album Play, featuring 14 brand new songs.

However, after scouring the lyrics of Ed’s new tracks, many picked up on the fact that many of them appear to allude to difficulties in his marriage to his wife of six years, Cherry Seaborn.

Speaking at a Spotify event, The Sun reported that Ed told those in attendance: “Sometimes people listen to records today and assume that what that song is, [represent’s the songwriter’s] world 100 per cent at the time.”

In fact, he insisted, his songs “very much” represent “heightened emotions”.

“You never write a song on a ‘meh’ day,” the Lego House singer claimed. “You always write songs like, ‘This is the most loving I’ve ever felt, this is the happiest I’ve ever felt, this is the angriest I’ve ever felt’. They’re all like big extremities and that’s what inspires the song.”

He continued: “That’s where the song exists, and that’s why people connect to the song, as people have these big feelings.

“I think the only time the songs will ever be created, for me at least, are in those moments of big extremes.”

On the new Play cut Problems, Ed sings: “Flowers in our garden are dying, when did the water run dry? Who can tell? But you want the truth, we’re not fine, we don’t need space, we need time.”

“We got problems, and we don’t know how to solve them,” he continues on the chorus. “It gets worse when we’re not talking.”

Elsewhere on the album, War Games has lyrics about “tearing out our hair again, we’re stuck inside a war game” and how “every day, we feel deflated, trying to roll with the changes, the reality of what we’ve created”, and on Regrets he laments: “Kids, they add stress, work ain’t working the best, but that ain’t the explanation why this love is a mess.”

In 2015, Ed began dating Cherry, a former accountant who he’d known since school.

The two tied the knot in 2019, and now have two children, five-year-old Lyra and three-year-old Jupiter.