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Loving can hurt
Loving can hurt sometimes
But it's the only thing
That I know

The acoustic centerpiece of Ed Sheeran's × is broadly charting again, appearing across 82 country and platform charts after nearly a month out of view. Built from a piano loop by Snow Patrol's Johnny McDaid, the ballad was, per Genius, the song Sheeran believed would change his career path — the fifth single from an album he was determined to sell on its strength alone. Its most durable placement came in 2016, when it soundtracked the romantic drama Me Before You, adapted from Jojo Moyes' novel, according to Songfacts. The track's memory-and-loss framing has kept it a fixture of graduation reels and tribute montages for a decade. Sheeran's latest album, Play, is out now, keeping his catalog in circulation.

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