Welcome to the present — Niall Horan is your host, and is taking you right into a model new world (ahem, album cycle) with the discharge of “Heaven,” the lead single off his forthcoming album The Present, on Friday (Feb. 17).
The observe sees the previous One Path member reminiscing on a love that leaves him feeling weightless that, beneath the floor, holds a darkness he would relatively not commerce.
“Doesn’t get, doesn’t get higher than, higher than this/ God solely is aware of the place this might go/ And even when our love begins to go uncontrolled/ And also you let me go up in flames/ Heaven received’t be the identical,” Horan sings on the observe’s refrain.
“This album is a bit of labor I’m so happy with and now it’s time to move it over to you to go and make it your personal,” Horan wrote on Instagram, captioning a put up that featured the album’s official cowl, a photograph of him leaning on a window sill and staring up on the album’s title. “Thanks a lot for being there for me all this time and I can’t wait to share the following couple of years of this new period with you. I’ve missed you all a lot. It’s good to be again.”
“Heaven” marks Horan’s first launch since singles “Our Track” and “All over the place,” his 2021 collaborations with Anne-Marie. Heartbreak Climate, Horan’s earlier LP, peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 in March 2020.
Take heed to “Heaven” beneath.