In Ed Sheeran’s Game of Thrones cameo during the Season 7 premiere, he provided the episode with a little musical interlude
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Sheeran’s cameo came about while Arya was traveling through the woods after leaving the Twins, where she had massacred what remained of House Frey. She stumbled upon a group of Lannister soldiers eating around a campfire and having a bit of a singalong before they continued to ride towards where Arya had just come from, planning to investigate what happened. A solider played by Ed Sheeran was singing, and Arya immediately had the question any Sheeran fans tuning in also had: What was that song? He identified it only as a new one.

It actually wasn’t new, though. Book fans may have recognized some of the lyrics in Sheeran’s song, which included the lines, “For hands of gold are always cold, but a woman’s hands are warm.” In George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, the song “Hands of Gold” is sung by Symon Silver Tongue. Whether that character has any connection to Sheeran’s unnamed soldier is unclear at the moment, but the song definitely has book origins.

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42 COMMENTS

  1. He rode through the streets of the city
    Down from hill on high
    O'er the wynds and the streets and the cobbles
    He rode to a women's sigh
    For she was his secret treasure
    She was his shame and his bliss
    And a chain and a keep are nothing
    Compared to a women's kiss
    For hands of gold are always cold but a women's hand are warm
    For hands of gold are always cold but a woman's hands are warm

  2. My favourite thing about this scene is that Maisie Williams is a big Ed Sheeran fan, so the GoT producers asked him to come on GoT partly as a treat for her, and she had absolutely no idea she was going to meet him until they were filming this scene, so that nervous look on her face as she gets off the horse is genuine, not because Arya is about to sit with a bunch of Lannister soldiers, but because Maisie is about to sit with Ed Sheeran.

  3. He rode through the streets of the city
    Down from his Hill on high
    Over winds and the steps and the cobble
    He rode to a woman's sigh

    For she was his secret treasure
    She was his shame and his bliss
    And a chain and a keep are nothing
    Compared to a woman's kiss

    For hands of gold are always cold but a woman's hands are warm
    For hands of gold are always cold but a woman's hands are…

  4. I had no clue who this guy was. I still had to look up his name. He did not break immersion or was distracting in anyway. Everyone complaining must be too into themselves. Dude was just another actor. Yet everyone scared him off Twitter or something. For shame!!

  5. He rode through the streets of the city
    Down from his hill on high
    O'er the wynds and the steps and the cobble
    He rode to a woman's sigh
    For she was his secret treasure
    She was his shame and his bliss
    And a chain and a keep are nothing
    Compared to a woman's kiss

    [Refrain]
    For hands of gold are always cold
    But a woman's hands are warm
    For hands of gold are always cold
    But a woman's hands are …

  6. Can't believe people made a big fuss about this scene. "OMG, ED SHEERAN SANG A SONG AND SAID ONE LINE IN THIS SHOW, I'M DONE WITH IT FOREVER".
    Go "Frey" yourselves, jackasses.

  7. I'm not an Ed sheeran fan.. But he recieved death threats for this? I mean why? you nerds really need to get a life. "OMG ED HOW DARE YOU TOUCH MY FAVOURITE TV SERIES? YOU KNOW I DON'T HAVE A REAL LIFE! YOUR FACE RUINS THE MOOD OF GOT! AND THIS IS THE ONLY LIFE I HAVE"

  8. I just listen to whatever on Spotify, so I couldn't recognize the face….the scene seemed completely fine….in fact it was a great scene as it re-humanized Arya. It showed that many soldiers in this war didn't give a fuck. They had their own lives and even Arya. The entire scene was supposed to be "disconnected" from the Dragons, Jon Snow, Targaryen's, The Iron Throne, etc.

  9. I don't understand how so many people could give Ed and the producers shit for this scene, apart from the song being beautiful, the scene itself was a special, still and fantastic display of the subjectiveness of evil in GoT, and that not every person in that universe is a cunt.

  10. I was so into the moment I didn't realise it was Ed Sheeran. But during his singing I was thinking: "This guy is so good, he should go professional". It's such a wonderful song and an even more beautiful scene. I enjoyed watching it.

  11. So many people seemed to hate this I personally liked it and want to hear the rest of the song (also get Bronn to finish the dornishmans wife while your at it), I also know some people who didn't recognise ed Sheehan who loved the scene as it was humanising the Lannister men

  12. This scene was very out of place for game of thrones.
    Nobody is that nice and happy in this show, especially not lannister soldiers. They jumped the shark on this one.

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