Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran Confirm ‘The Joker And The Queen’ Collab

The Swifties and Sheerios were right! Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran’s collaboration for “The Joker and The Queen” has been confirmed by Sheeran himself in the wee hours today (February 9).

Posting a snippet of the song on Instagram with a rotating card featuring a joker and a queen, Sheeran, 30, revealed the song would be released this Friday, February 11. He wrote, “The Joker And The Queen featuring my good friend @taylorswift is out this Friday. Link in bio to pre-order or pre-save it x”

As the clip plays, you hear Swift sing, “And I know, you think that what makes a king is gold / A palace and diamond rings when I fold,” with Sheeran joining her singing, “You see the best in me, the joker and the queen.”

One fan wrote, “this actually make me feel like crying, taylor swift voice is just wow plus ed sheeran voice omo 😭🥺”

Another fan excitedly commented, “THE BESTIES R BACK,” while another said, “Everybody act shocked quick.”

As we previously reported, fans did some super sleuthing after Sheeran cryptically teased last week that Swift would be involved in a remix of “The Joker and the Queen.”

GALLERY: Ed Sheeran’s 10 Best Lyrics That Warm (Or Break) Your Heart

• 10. Drunk

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  On cold days cold plays out like the band's name / I know I can't heal things with a handshake / You know I can change, as I began saying / You cut me wide open like landscape / Open bottles of beer but never champagne / To applaud you with the sound that my hands make.

• 9. The A Team

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  The worst things in life come free to us / 'Cause we're just under the upper hand / And go mad for a couple grams

• 8. Wake Me Up

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  So I'll take you to the beach and walk along the sand / And I'll make you a heart pendant with a pebble held in my hand / And I'll carve it like a necklace / So the heart falls where your chest is / And now a piece of me is a piece of the beach and it falls just where it needs to be and rests peacefully.
• 7. I’m A Mess

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  And all of my hopes / All of my own words / Are all over written on the signs / But you're on my road / Walking me home.

• 6. Thinking Out Loud

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  When your legs don't work like they used to before / And I can't sweep you off of your feet / Will your mouth still remember the taste of my love? Will your eyes still smile from your cheeks?

• 5. Photograph

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  We keep this love in a photograph / We made these memories for ourselves / Where our eyes are never closing / Hearts are never broken / And time's forever frozen, still.
• 4. Shirtsleeves

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  And I'll hold on to the words you spoke of / Anchored down in the throat, love / And I'm captain of this sinking boat now / With just one armband to carry me home.

• 3. Hearts Don’t Break Around Here

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  Took my heart upon a one way trip / Guess she went wandering off with it / None like most women I know / This one will bring it back whole.

• 2. U.N.I.

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  And I don't get waves of missing you anymore / They're more like tsunami tides in my eyes / Never getting dry, so I get high / Smoke away the days, never sleep with the light on / Weeks pass in the blink of an eye
• 1. Bad Habits

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  My bad habits lead to late nights endin' alone / Conversations with a stranger I barely know / Swearin' this will be the last, but it probably won't / I got nothin' left to lose, or use, or do.