Castle on the Hill is a song by Ed Sheeran, released in 2017 on the album ÷ (Divide). The song was inspired by Sheerans childhood and adolescence in his hometown of Framlingham in Suffolk, England, and talks about nostalgia, growing up, and long-lasting friendships.
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Introduction:
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When I was six years old I broke my leg
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And I was running from my brother and his friends
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And tasted the sweet perfume of the mountain grass as I rolled down
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I was younger then, take me back to when I
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Found my heart and broke it here
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Made friends and lost them through the years
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And I've not seen the roaring fields in so long, I know I've grown
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But I can't wait to go home
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I'm on my way, driving at ninety
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Down those country lanes singing to Tiny Dancer
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And I miss the way you make me feel and it's real
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When we watched the sunset over the castle on the hill
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Fifteen years old and smoking hand-rolled cigarettes
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Running from the law through the backfields and getting drunk with my friends
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Had my first kiss on a Friday night, I don't reckon I did it
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Right, I was younger then, take me back to when we found
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Weekend jobs and when we got paid
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We'd buy cheap spirits and drink them straight
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Me and my friends have not thrown up in so long, oh how we've grown
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But I can't wait to go home
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I'm on my way, driving at ninety
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Down those country lanes singing to Tiny Dancer
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And I miss the way you make me feel and it's real
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We watched the sunset over the castle on the hill
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Over the castle on the hill
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Over the castle on the hill
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One friend left to sell clothes, one works down by the coast
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One had two kids but lives alone, one's brother overdosed
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One's already on his second wife, one's just barely getting by but
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These people raised me and I-I-I, can't wait to go home
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And I'm on my way, I still remember
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These old country lanes when we did not know the answers
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And I miss the way you make me feel and it's real
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We watched the sunset over the castle on the hill
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Over the castle on the hill
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