“It’s a hole dug in the ground so that whenever the day comes that I die, I can go in there.”
In an interview with “GQ” Ed Sheeran recently revealed how much he is dealing with his own death and the death of his loved ones. He built a kind of grave in his own garden in which he would like to find his final peace at some point.
Apart from that, it is now a kind of chapel for him in which he can mourn deceased relatives and friends and in which friends of his have already gotten married.
“People think it’s really weird and morbid, but I’ve had friends die without a will and no one knows what to do,” the “Shape of You” singer explained. “It’s a hole dug in the ground with a piece of stone over it, and when the day comes that I die, I can go in there.”
Ed Sheeran is still happy among the living and has just released his current album AUTUMN VARIATIONS. It is the first album he released on his own label, Gingerbread Man Records. As the title suggests, he wrote the record thinking about autumn. “Last fall I realized that my friends and I were going through so many life changes. After the heat of the summer, everything either calmed down, leveled off, fell apart, came to a head or imploded,” he said when announcing the new record.
Ed Sheeran says he wrote the songs to understand and process his own feelings and to empathize with those of his friends. “There were highs like falling in love and new friendships alongside lows like heartbreak, depression, loneliness and confusion.”