Barcelona

Album

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Label

Atlantic Records

Genre

Latin pop

Composer(s)

Amy Victoria Wadge;Benjamin Joseph Levin;Edward Christopher Sheeran;Foy Vance;John Mcdaid

Entered Chart

Mar 25, 2017

Peak Date

Mar 25, 2017

Released

3 March 2017

Recorded

2016

Catalog #

Atlantic

Ed Sheeran wrote this love song for the Spanish city of Barcelona with Northern Irish singer-songwriter Foy Vance, who is signed to his Gingerbread Records. The lyrics contain some cod-Spanish. Sheeran told The Sun: "It doesn't make a lot of sense. It's just the Spanish words I know put together. There's one line where I say 'Siempre Vivre La Barcelona,' which is actually Latin I think, but it just sounded cool. It means 'long live Barcelona.'" Barcelona is Spain's second-largest city, its largest port, and its chief commercial center. Here are some more fun facts about Barcelona from The Encyclopedia of Trivia: Barcelona was founded by the Carthaginians in the 3rd century BC. FC Barcelona, one of the most successful clubs in Spanish football, was founded by Swiss football pioneer Joan Gamper on November 29, 1899. Work on Barcelona’s fantastical Sagrada Familia Roman Catholic church is expected to be complete by 2026 — 144 years after it was begun by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi in 1882. He joked that his client, God, was in no hurry to see it finished. Barcelona has built around 300 playgrounds for senior citizens that are meant to improve fitness and decrease isolation. Barcelona's 197 foot Columbus Monument was built to mark how Christopher Columbus reported to Queen Isabella after his first voyage to the Americas. The statue shows him supposedly pointing to the New World, but he is actually pointing south, to Algeria. Barcelona attracts over one million visitors every week.

Oh, get up, up on the dancefloor tonight
I've got two left feet and a bottle of red wine
Making me feel like the beat and the bassline
Are in my blood, both hands up on her waistline
Get on up, baby, dance to the rhythm of the music
Don't care what the DJ chooses
Get lost in the rhythm with me
Please don't close until we wanna leave it

And you and I we're flying on an aeroplane tonight
We're going somewhere where the sun is shining bright
Just close your eyes
And let's pretend we're dancing in the street
In Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona

Well, get up, up on the dancefloor, move, it's a Saturday night
I fell in love with the sparkle in the moonlight
Reflected in your beautiful eyes
I guess that is destiny doing it right
And dance like they do in the Mediterranean
Spin you around me again and again, and
You're like something that God has sent me
I want you, baby, solamente

And you and I we're flying on an aeroplane tonight
We're going somewhere where the sun is shining bright
Just close your eyes
And let's pretend we're dancing in the street
In Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona
Oh, Barcelona
So let's pretend we're dancing in the street
In Barcelona

Las ramblas, I'll meet you
We'll dance around la Sagrada Familia (Barcelona)
Drinking Sangría
Mi niña, te amo mi cariño (Barcelona)
Mamasita rica
Sí, te adoro, señorita (Barcelona)
Los otros, viva la vida
Come on, let's be free in Barcelona
Las ramblas, I'll meet you
Come on and dance with me in Barcelona
Drinking Sangría
I just want to be in Barcelona
Mamasita, rica
Feel that summer breeze in Barcelona
Nosotros, viva la vida
Siempre vida, Barcelona