Anchorage - Michelle Shocked 10"

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The meaning is pretty obvious; she mailed a letter to an old friend in Texas but found out she'd moved to Alaska. Well, I get lost inside my head / In this chaos, you’re my calm / And I will find my feet again / ‘Cause еven the worst days of my life will always еnd / At midnight in your arms,” sings Ed Sheeran in the chorus, revelling in his good luck. On this track, he is devastated to have lost his lover and even more saddened by the feeling that he may never move on from this.

So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship. I am honestly really surprised at how little understanding there is of this song - obviously she has been fawning over this old female friend of hers for some time, and there are multiple suggestions that they might have hooked up at some previous time; her ex-crush is now "anchored down in Anchorage", whereas she would prefer her to be available, now that, as the letter to her seems to suggest, she realizes her entrapment in Alaska/heterosexuality, etc.I think the song's about a couple of friends who used to be wild and free, but one of them got married, had some kids, and found herself kind of stuck in Alaska as a housewife while the other is still out there, living the musician's life.

But I think you might be right about a couple of friends who "used to be wild and free" and now one of them is married with kids. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. Ed Sheeran dedicates his album outro to a lover who has blessed him with a unique experience that he seeks to describe through the song’s nuanced lyrics.But the best part of the song to me is when she sings "Leroy says hello" and her voice goes high on the first syllable. As a young feminist, she left Texas to travel, Kerouac-style, and was caught up in Reagan-era grassroots politics.