1. The Weeknd Feat Ed Sheeran- Dark Times
By Amad Islam
[Verse 1: Ed Sheeran]
Waking up, half past five
Blood on pillow and one bruised eye
Drunk too much, you know what I'm like
But you should've seen the other guy
[Pre-Chorus: Ed Sheeran]
This ain't the right time for you to fall in love with me
Baby I'm just being honest
And I know my lies could not make you believe
We're running in circles that's why
[Chorus 1: Ed Sheeran]
In my dark times I'll be going back to the street
Promising everything I do not mean
In my dark times, baby this is all I could be
Don't think my mother could love me for me
In my dark times, in my dark times
[Verse 2: The Weeknd]
Light one up, let me bum a smoke
Still calming down, dripping throat
I got another man's blood on my clothes
But an endless fog's the life I chose
[Verse 3: Ed Sheeran & The Weeknd]
In my dark times I've still got some problems I know
Driving too fast but just moving to slow
And I've got something I've been trying to let go
Pulling me back every time
Ed Sheeraninthisverse talksaboutThe
Weeknd’shecticandcrazyway of life,talking
abouthim fightinganddrinkingtoomuchand
havinga veryunusual sleepingpatternashe
wakesupat 5pm.
This verse Ed Sheeran highlights The Weeknd’s past
before he became famous.During this time Weeknd
was temporarily homeless and would look to sleep
around with ladies in order to have some sortof
shelter. In order to get in to bed with these ladies
Weeknd told these girls heloved the, which wasn’t
the case.
This again is in reference to when The Weeknd falls
back in to his old habits of usingdrugs and alcohol
and also confessingloveto ladies who in actuality he
does not love. He is also sayingthateventually The
Weeknd will fall back in to this dark placeand start
this cycleover.
The Weeknd now enters the song, in this verse he
talks aboutusingcocaineand getting in to fights with
other men and havingtheir blood on his clothes and
he goes on to say that at the end of the day he
realises thatthis is thelifehe chose, a lifeconsisting
of drug use, fighting and sleepingaround.
The term ‘’Drivingtoo fast’’ is used to highlighttheir
work and ambition towards fame, however both Ed &
The Weeknd have come to terms that they don’t do
enough to vanish their personal flaws,which can
potentially ruin everything that they have worked for.