Much like his friend Taylor Swift [1], Ed Sheeran is known for writing songs about his real-life relationships [2] and experiences. While some are more obvious nods to the people in his life ("Perfect" is about girlfriend Cherry Seaborn [3], "Supermarket Flowers" is about losing his grandmother from his mom's perspective [4]), others are a bit more complicated. Sheeran's "Small Bump," which is off his 2011 + album, is one of those songs.
The haunting lyrics — which include lines like "You're just a small bump unborn just for four months then torn from life / Maybe you were needed up there but we're still unaware of why" — tell the story of an unborn baby who dies in the mother's womb. Sheeran wrote it about his friend who suffered a miscarriage [6] while she was five months pregnant, telling Interview magazine in 2011: "Yeah . . . it was quite a difficult subject to tackle. I wrote it from their perspective. It was my perspective looking on them to begin with. It's quite a touchy subject, so I wrote it from the perspective of actually being the parent." So touching.