If there's one song that will hurt your heart today, it's this one.

Ed Sheeran has always been very good at filling hearts with love and hope, only to shatter them all with the changing of a tune and the flick of a track.

He’s good at heartbreak. Much of his music will tell you that. But what about when death and heartbreak and grief overlap and he writes about that?

Just last night I got a text from a friend: Had I listened to his newest song Supermarket Flowers? She had listened to it in the car and involuntarily found herself in floods of tears.

I hadn’t, so as I mindlessly cooked some food I put it on. And if there’s one thing I learned about Ed Sheeran’s music, it’s that some of it should come with a content warning.

I’m not a music critic, nor am I a huge music fan. In fact, much to many people’s disgust, I rarely listen to it at all. But there’s something about this song that broke my heart harder and faster than any human could. And there’s something about it that made me realise music serves a much greater purpose than I’d ever given it credit for. This is why people like listening to music so much.

Supermarket Flowers, a song on Sheeran's highly publicised new album, Divide, on first impressions appears to be written for a mother who has died. He sings:

"I'm in pieces, it's tearing me up
but I know a heart that's broken is a heart that's been loved,
So I'll sing Hallelujah,
You were an angel in the shape of my mum."

And although those same first impressions would have you think it was written for his own mother, it wasn't. Instead, it was for his mother's mother.

In an interview with Capital FM, Sheeran explained it's the "most special song on the record" for him.

"My grandmother was very ill during the time I was making the record and passed away at the end of me making the record, so we wrote this song as a tribute and just left it on.”

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In fact, he wasn't even going to put the song on the album, but his grandfather encouraged him to do so.

"My grandfather just turned to me [at the funeral], he was like you have to put that out, that has to go on the record. It’s such a good memory, that’s why it’s ended up on there.”

“[It was] really hard to write, but very easy at the same time in terms of its flow. There was no trying to think of poignant lines and being like death is this or like life is this. It was just so spot on and the lyric of ‘you are an angel in the shape of my mom’, that could end up in a poignant line but it was the truth.”

And it's perhaps for that very reason it's been so widely received. He wasn't trying to be profound. That's just what death is.

Former Bachelorette Georgia Love felt that, too.

Ed Sheeran's music always elicits emotions in me so I purposely haven't listened to his new album until today when I had enough time to sit down and take it in without interruption. But wow, I wasn't prepared for this one ???? ???? "I'm in pieces, it's tearing me up but I know a heart that's broken is a heart that's been loved, So I'll sing Hallelujah, You were an angel in the shape of my mum" ????

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The former journalist, who lost her mother late last year to pancreatic cancer, posted on Instagram just this week detailing how much emotion the song brought out in her.

"Ed Sheeran's music always elicits emotions in me so I purposely haven't listened to his new album until today when I had enough time to sit down and take it in without interruption," she wrote.

"But wow, I wasn't prepared for this one."

And you probably won't be, either. Because if there's one song that will hurt your heart today, it's this one.