Old Phone

Old Phone - Ed Sheeran

Written by：Ed Sheeran

Published by：Ed Sheeran Limited and Sony Music Publishing

Produced by：Ed Sheeran/ILYA for Wolf Cousins Productions/Blake Slatkin

Mixed by：Mark “Spike” Stent at SLS Studios, assisted by Matt Wolach and Kieran Beardmore

Engineered by：Blake Slatkin/Ilya Salmanzadeh/Graham Archer/Jeremy Lertola/Michael Harris

Recorded at：Blake’s Studio, Los Angeles, CA; Valentine Recording Studios, Los Angeles, CA; MXM Studios: Los Angeles CA; MXM Studios: Stockholm, Sweden; GODZILYA Studios: Los Angeles, CA; Goa, India

Lead vocal by：Ed Sheeran

Background vocals by：Elvira Anderfjärd/Blake Slatkin/Ilya Salmanzadeh

Guitar by：Ed Sheeran/Dylan Day

Bass by：Pino Palladino

Drums by：Lemar Carter

Programming by：Blake Slatkin/ILYA

Keyboards by：Blake Slatkin/ILYA

Temberin/Tambourine/Trash Can/Dhol by：Guatam Sharma

Ghatam & Kanjira by：Ganesh Murali

Mandolin by：Tapas Ray

Shaker/Wood Kartaal/Guiro/Tambourine by：Jayesh Kathak

Strings (violin/viola/cello) arranged and performed by：Davide Rossi for Echo Beach Management.

Piano/Banjo/Strings by：Beoga

Mastered by：Stuart Hawkes

Cut for vinyl by：Stuart Hawkes at Metropolis Studios, London, UK

Commissioning Country: United Kingdom

I found my old phone today

In a box that I had hidden away

Nostalgia trying to lead me astray

Maybe I'll unwrite some wrongs

I charged the battery again

Combinations cause my passcode had changed

Opened up and saw familiar names

Now I wonder where they've gone

Conversations with my dead friends

Messages from all my exes

I kinda think that this was best left

In the past where it belongs

I feel an overwhelming sadness

Of all the friends I do not have left

Seeing how my family has fractured

Growing up and moving on

I found my old phone today

Arguments that I tried to keep at bay

The ones who loved me I just pushed them away

Couldn't tell the difference from the leeches

My closed hand still holds some mates

But if I'm open it gets smaller day by day

I can't tell if it is pleasure or pain

Trying to keep within my remit

Conversations with my dead friends

Messages from all my exes

I kinda think that this was best left

There in the past where it belongs

I feel an overwhelming sadness

Of all the friends I do not have left

Seeing how my family has fractured

Growing up and moving on

Ooh-ooh-ooh ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh ooh-ooh

I found my old phone today

So full of love yet so full of hate

I put it back inside there from whence it came

Nothing good will come from regretting

Conversations with my dead friends

Messages from all my exes

I kinda think that this was best left

There in the past where it belongs

I feel an overwhelming sadness

Of all the friends I do not have left

Seeing how my family has fractured

Growing up and moving on

I found my old phone today