Analyse af Ed Sheerans 'Thinking Out Loud'

I have chosen the song Thinking out Loud and I did that because I think Ed Sheeran is a good singer and the text is very good. The text is about living with your loved one for the rest of your life.

The songwriter of the song is Ed Sheeran and Amy Wadge. Ed met Amy when he was just 17 years old. They were not meant to write this song. Amy visited Ed in 2014 and while Ed was in the shower she played a few chords on the guitar. Ed heard it and rushed out of the shower and they then started writing a song on the chords she randomly played on the guitar. Ed wrote the song about his girlfriend at the time. They broke up about a year after.

The song has a soft acoustic sound with a primary focus on vocals although there are little backing vocals that flow with the music and provide additional effects of sound from a choir.

The title of the song is saying a lot about the song. The words “thinking out loud” are first being sung in the chords after he is singing “place your head on my beating heart”. Which means when she place her head on his heart she can hear him “thinking out loud”. Thinking out loud means that he want to think loud about his love for her. He really want to live the rest of his life loving only one woman.