Simply days after manifesting his grief by way of a blue meanie within the official video for “Eyes Closed,” Ed Sheeran switched issues up and dropped a transferring stay video for the tune on Monday (March 27). Within the bare-bones clip, Sheeran strums his trusty acoustic guitar inside a colorless warehouse house backed by producer The Nationwide’s Aaron Dessner on upright piano.
After the primary run by way of the tune’s crying refrain Sheeran is joined by a six-piece string part, giving the tune a heightened sense of gravity as he sings, “Simply dancin’ with my eyes closed/ ‘Trigger in all places I look, I nonetheless see you/ And time is movin’ so sluggish/ And I don’t know what else that I can do/ So I’ll preserve dancin’ with my/ Eye-eye-eye-eyes/ Eye-eye-eye-eyes closed/ Eye-eye-eye-eyes So I’ll preserve dancin’ with my.”
“Eyes Closed” is the primary single from Sheeran’s forthcoming album – (Subtract), the ultimate assortment in his mathematics-themed sequence data. The singer defined that the tune percolated for a number of years, initially imagined as a break-up tune earlier than it advanced when Ed suffered a “heartbreaking loss,” which led him to revisit the observe, as described in a press release accompanying the official video.
“This tune is about dropping somebody, feeling like each time you exit and also you anticipate to simply stumble upon them, and all the pieces simply reminds you of them and the stuff you did collectively,” Sheeran defined. “You sorta should take your self out of actuality typically to numb the ache of loss, however sure issues simply convey you proper again into it.”
Sheeran’s forthcoming album will drop Might 5 by way of Asylum and Atlantic Information. It’s been described as a “soul-bearing” assortment, written “towards a backdrop of grief and hope,” throughout which era he processed his good buddy late Australian Mushroom Group founder Michael Gudinski’s loss of life, his spouse Cherry Seaborn‘s tumor analysis and the lack of his shut pal Jamal Edwards.
Watch the acoustic tackle “Eyes Closed” beneath.
