Ed Sheeran And Bring Me The Horizon Are Collaborating On A Song

Ed Sheeran and Bring Me the Horizon performed together earlier this week at the 2022 Brit Awards, and now they are taking the odd pairing one step further — by writing a song together.

Per Loudwire, Ed Sheeran said that he’s been a longtime fan of the band, revealing, “We’re going to write a song together… playing with Bring Me the Horizon was a dream,” Sheeran said. “I got in touch with Oli and we were going to write together but then the pandemic happened so we’re in touch – I’ve been a fan for a long time.” The pop singer reached out to Oli Sykes about performing together at the 2022 Brit Awards and it all came together within a couple of weeks. “Oddly enough, that’s the kind of music I grew up listening to and had a Kerrang subscription and I listened to it constantly,” Sheeran said.

The pop star has opened up about his love for metal before — last summer he said that he was “really into death metal as a kid” and “listened to Cradle of Filth and Slipknot and all that stuff.” After Cradle of Filth’s frontman Dani Filth heard about this, he reached out for a possible collaboration with Ed Sheeran, which he said would be fun.

Watch Ed Sheeran and Bring Me The Horizon perform “Bad Habits” at the 2022 Brit Awards below:

GALLERY: Ed Sheeran’s 10 Best Lyrics That Warm (Or Break) Your Heart

• 10. Drunk

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  On cold days cold plays out like the band's name / I know I can't heal things with a handshake / You know I can change, as I began saying / You cut me wide open like landscape / Open bottles of beer but never champagne / To applaud you with the sound that my hands make.

• 9. The A Team

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  The worst things in life come free to us / 'Cause we're just under the upper hand / And go mad for a couple grams

• 8. Wake Me Up

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  So I'll take you to the beach and walk along the sand / And I'll make you a heart pendant with a pebble held in my hand / And I'll carve it like a necklace / So the heart falls where your chest is / And now a piece of me is a piece of the beach and it falls just where it needs to be and rests peacefully.
• 7. I’m A Mess

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  And all of my hopes / All of my own words / Are all over written on the signs / But you're on my road / Walking me home.

• 6. Thinking Out Loud

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  When your legs don't work like they used to before / And I can't sweep you off of your feet / Will your mouth still remember the taste of my love? Will your eyes still smile from your cheeks?

• 5. Photograph

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  We keep this love in a photograph / We made these memories for ourselves / Where our eyes are never closing / Hearts are never broken / And time's forever frozen, still.
• 4. Shirtsleeves

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  And I'll hold on to the words you spoke of / Anchored down in the throat, love / And I'm captain of this sinking boat now / With just one armband to carry me home.

• 3. Hearts Don’t Break Around Here

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  Took my heart upon a one way trip / Guess she went wandering off with it / None like most women I know / This one will bring it back whole.

• 2. U.N.I.

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  And I don't get waves of missing you anymore / They're more like tsunami tides in my eyes / Never getting dry, so I get high / Smoke away the days, never sleep with the light on / Weeks pass in the blink of an eye
• 1. Bad Habits

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  My bad habits lead to late nights endin' alone / Conversations with a stranger I barely know / Swearin' this will be the last, but it probably won't / I got nothin' left to lose, or use, or do.