Ed Sheeran -- Song Meanings, Lyrics.

Photograph (x)

Loving can hurt, loving can hurt sometimes
But it's the only thing that I know
When it gets hard, you know it can get hard sometimes
It is the only thing that makes us feel alive

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

So you can keep me
Inside the pocket of your ripped jeans
Holding me closer 'til our eyes meet
You won't ever be alone, wait for me to come home

Loving can heal, loving can mend your soul
And it's the only thing that I know, know
I swear it will get easier,
Remember that with every piece of you
And it's the only thing we take with us when we die

We keep this love in this photograph
We made these memories for ourselves
Where our eyes are never closing
hearts are never broken
And time's forever frozen still

So you can keep me
Inside the pocket of your ripped jeans
Holding me closer 'til our eyes meet
You won't ever be alone

And if you hurt me
That's okay baby, only words bleed
Inside these pages you just hold me
And I won’t ever let you go
Wait for me to come home
Wait for me to come home
Wait for me to come home
Wait for me to come home

You can fit me
Inside the necklace you got when you were sixteen
Next to your heartbeat where I should be
Keep it deep within your soul

And if you hurt me
Well, that's okay baby, only words bleed
Inside these pages you just hold me
And I won’t ever let you go

When I'm away, I will remember how you kissed me
Under the lamppost back on Sixth street
Hearing you whisper through the phone,
"Wait for me to come home."

Photograph is from the latest album, and blimey, is it beautiful. I am actually in love with this song...wow wow wow wow WOW! For any song, I have to listen to it a few times before I get used to it and actually like/dislike it if you know what I mean, but for this one, as soon as I heard it I was like, oh yeah, this one's the best! 

What I think it's about? It's clearly about a relationship, and I think it's about how he's looking through all the photos of them which store all his memories with this girl. I think their relationship has come to an end, yet he still loves her which is why it "hurts" to do so. 

This line: "So you can keep me, Inside the pocket of your ripped jeans" 
My friend said he thought it was a kind of metaphor, like she always keeped a piece of him in her pocket, i.e a photograph. To be honest, I thought it was more literal, that when they kissed he put his hands in her pocket and that was their like "position" they kissed in. Interpret that line however you want.