One Direction Songs - 18 Lyrics

One Direction - 18

One Direction - 18 Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Four
Released: 2014

18 Lyrics

I got a heart and I got a soul
Believe me I will use them both
We made a start
Be it a false one, I know
Baby, I don’t want to feel alone

So kiss me where I lay down
My hands press to your cheeks
A long way from the playground

I have loved you since we were 18
Long before we both thought the same thing
To be loved, to be in love
All I can do is say that these arms were made for holding you
I wanna love like you made me feel
When we were 18

We took a chance
God knows we tried
Yet all along, I knew we’d be fine

So pour me a drink oh love,
Let’s split the night wide open and we’ll see everything
We can live in love in slow motion, motion, motion

So kiss me where I lay down
My hands press to your cheeks
A long way from the playground

I have loved you since we were 18
Long before we both thought the same thing
To be loved and to be in love
And all I can do is say that these arms are made for holding you, ooh
And I wanna love like you made me feel
When we were 18

When we were 18
Oh lord, when we were 18

Kiss me where I lay down
My hands press to your cheeks
A long way from the playground

I have loved you since we were 18
Long before we both thought the same thing

To be loved and to be in love
And all I can do is say that these arms were made for holding you
And I want a love like you made me feel
When we were 18
I want a love like you made me feel
When we were 18
I want a love like you made me feel

When we were 18

Writer/s: SHEERAN, ED / FRANK, OLIVER
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

18 Song Chart

This was written by Ed Sheeran, who previously penned One Direction's Take Me Home tracks "Little Things" and "Over Again," as well as "Moments" from the deluxe version of their debut album.

Ed explained to Nova's Kent 'Smallzy' Small that he initially declined Simon Cowell's request for him to pen a song for 4. "I wasn't gonna do it... basically, my record label got very annoyed that my first #1 was a song that I gave to someone else," he said, "and they were kind of like "don't do it."'

However, while in Copenhagen, inspiration struck and Ed, "went into the rest room, where it's big and reverberative" and penned the tune. He said that his record label didn't mind as, "it's one of these songs that I wouldn't have used for myself, it's written specifically for them."

Simon Cowell explained to Capital Radio how the collaboration came about. "The funny story was that Ed came down to see me at Got Talent, as he was performing. He came up to the dressing room and I went, 'Where's the One Direction song?' And he said, 'I didn't know you wanted a song from me', and I went, 'Yeah'."

"And then literally a week later he comes round to my house with his manager one night, turned up around 11 o'clock and said, 'Do you like this song?' and he played me '18' and it took me about a millionth of a second to say yes."