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Ed Sheeran

Pause

Release date: 2006

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"Pause" is a track by Ed Sheeran, from the album Ed Sheeran, released 2006. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 10 articles about Ed Sheeran.

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Ed Sheeran

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Lyrics

Pause

[Verse 1: Ed Sheeran]

You know I got to get away

To find some peace and sanity

I've been playing hide-and-seek too long

Shaking, making, everybody waking

Setting the hi-fi bleed

Keeping me back

While you’re spinning my track

That'll knock you off your feet

Monkey see what monkey do

But I'm a monkey telling you

I just think that we should take a break

Tickity-tock the clock with the hip-hop

And Alonestar backing me up, we won’t stop

I gotta be searching for my peace of mind

Now let the track rewind

[Chorus: Ed Sheeran]

And play, let the music play

It came, so let the music say what it feels

Shame, shame it took too long

To see that you were wrong

Now turn the song back on

[Verse 2: Alonestar]

This is Alonestar coming at you with a new style

Kicking dust, ready to bust, it's Urban Angel

Artistic, flipping the script

Who'd you really want to get it with? Ed and Alonestar

We're like live wires sparking, ready to blow

We've already sown our seeds, we're just waiting to grow, blow

We're gonna lift you like a shock to your body

Metaphorical speech when we come and see you ducking for cover

Sheeran Lock coming ready to rock

With Urban Angel and Alonestar and Ed, keep it locked

Let the beat pump, drop the bass but don't stop

We're kicking the sound, let the bass bins pound

We're gonna roll, can you feel me now with my body?

Get down to the sound

It's Ed Sheeran in the place and Alonestar rising up

We gotta rise up, I said rise up

[Chorus: Ed Sheeran]

And play, let the music play

It came, so let the music say what it feels

Shame, shame it took too long

To see that you were wrong

Now turn the song back on

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2006
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  1. —Stevensong
  2. —Billy Ruskin
  3. —Beyond the Pale
  4. —Bonus Track
  5. —Open Your Ears
  6. —The Sea
  7. —Quiet Ballad of Ed
  8. —Pause
  9. —No Luck
  10. —Insomniac's Lullaby
  11. —In Memory
  12. —Spark (2006)
  13. —Way Home

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