Wait, what?
Ed Sheeran dropped a surprise track overnight.
“Afterglow is a song I wrote last year that I wanted to release for you,” Sheeran said, in a release. “It’s not the first single from the next album, it’s just a song I love, and hope you love too. Enjoy!”
The song came with a one-take performance video directed by Nic Minns and Zak Walters.
“We were love drunk waiting on a miracle / Trying to find ourselves in the winter snow,” sings Sheeran. “So alone in love like the world had disappeared / Oh I won’t be silent and I won’t let go / I will hold on tighter ‘til the afterglow.”
Sheeran and wife Cherry Seaborn welcomed daughter Lyra in August. Last December, he announced he was taking a break from music and social media.
In the release announcing the new song, the 29-year-old singer added: “Have a safe and happy festive break and New Year’s. Back to dad land for me now.”