Eyes Closed Ed Sheeran

A little more than a year after Ed Sheeran lost his best friend, music entrepreneur Jamal Edwards, the "Thinking Out Loud" artist has released a song about ...

[ a tumor](https://www.eonline.com/news/1366429/ed-sheeran-shares-his-wife-had-a-tumor-during-pregnancy) while she was pregnant with the couple's second child. "Life is unpredictable," he said in the series sneak peek. [For the latest breaking news updates, click here to download the E! "Everything changes, nothing's the same / Except the truth is now you're gone," he later sings. "Often sadness is something that follows you around, engulfing the rooms you're in, and you can feel and see it, but no one else around you can," he continued. / Every song reminds me you're gone / And I feel the lump form in my throat / ‘Coz I'm here alone." Along with the track, Ed released a corresponding music video, which features a blue creature following him like grief. "Just dancing with my eyes closed," he continues. "You sorta have to take yourself out of reality sometimes to numb the pain of loss, but certain things just bring you right back into it." "I pictured this year a little bit different when it hit February," he sings. But after Jamal's unexpected death at age 31 in February 2022, Ed revisited the [Grammy](https://www.eonline.com/news/grammys) winner said in the release.

Ed Sheeran was inspired by the movie Harvey and a book he read his daughters about sadness when coming up for the music video for "Eyes Closed," the lead ...

"I've always been very guarded in my personal and private life; the only documentary I've ever made has been one that focused on my songwriting," Sheeran previously said in a statement. He was also [awarded over $1 million](https://people.com/music/ed-sheeran-awarded-over-1-million-legal-costs-after-winning-plagiarism-suit/) in legal costs after winning the "Shape of You" plagiarism suit. (That March, Sheeran had to testify in court after being accused of stealing the melody of his hit 2017 song "Shape of You." "On the last tour, I'd party till 7 a.m., sleep till 4 p.m., get up and do the gig. "It's so nice and wholesome having family on tour," Sheeran told Rolling Stone earlier this week. "Writing songs is my therapy," he continued. "Then at the start of 2022, a "It helps me make sense of my feelings. "And I guess music helps heal, so I'm dancing with my eyes closed to try get through it." "Often sadness is something that follows you around, engulfing the rooms you're in, and you can feel and see it, but no one else around you can," he continued. "You sorta have to take yourself out of reality sometimes to numb the pain of loss, but certain things just bring you right back into it." "There's also a book I read my daughters where sadness is encapsulated by an imaginary creature."

Directed by Mia Barnes, the somber clip follows Sheeran as he mopes around town, picking at food, drinking alone, and staring into a lake after some sort of ...

“You sorta have to take yourself out of reality sometimes to numb the pain of loss, but certain things just bring you right back into it.” “This song is about losing someone, feeling like every time you go out and you expect to just bump into them, and everything just reminds you of them and the things you did together,” Sheeran said in a statement. Directed by Mia Barnes, the somber clip follows Sheeran as he mopes around town, picking at food, drinking alone, and staring into a lake after some sort of tragic car accident.

Ed Sheeran has released his latest single 'Eyes Closed' along with its official music video, which serves as a metaphor for the themes of loss and grief ...

He gets bigger and bigger as the video goes on, til he takes up whole rooms and is all I can see, just like sadness”. “Often sadness is something that follows you around, engulfing the rooms you’re in, and you can feel and see it, but no one else around you can. “You sorta have to take yourself out of reality sometimes to numb the pain of loss, but certain things just bring you right back into it”.