Ed Sheeran Teases Emotional New Single ‘Eyes Closed’ From Forthcoming Album ‘Subtract’

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Ed Sheeran is giving fans a taste of his new music. In a TikTok video on Thursday, the singer shared a clip of himself performing a snippet of the song “Eyes Closed”, from his forthcoming album Subtract. READ MORE: Ed Sheeran Announces New Album ‘Subtract’ And Reveals His Wife Developed A Tumour During Her Pregnancy The video opens with Sheeran sitting down at a piano and beginning to play the song. “So I’,m dancing with my eyes closed,” Sheeran sings, “‘Cause everywhere I look I still see you/Time is moving so slow/And I don’t know what else I can do/So I’ll keep dancing with my eyes closed.” Sheeran officially announced the new album last week, writing in a statement about the darker themes of the songs on it, including revealing that his wife, Cherry Seaborn, was diagnosed with a tumour while pregnant with their second child. READ MORE: Ed Sheeran’s Wife Cherry Seaborn Reportedly ‘Recovering Well’ After Tumour Diagnosis During Pregnancy “I had been working on Subtract for a decade, trying to sculpt the perfect acoustic album, writing and recording hundreds of songs with a clear vision of what I thought it should be.

Then at the start of 2022, a series of events changed my life, my mental health, and ultimately the way I viewed music and art,” he said. “Writing songs is my therapy.

It helps me make sense of my feelings. I wrote without thought of what the songs would be, I just wrote whatever tumbled out.

And in just over a week, I replaced a decade’s worth of work with my deepest darkest thoughts.” Subtract (styled as “–“) is out March 24.