Ed Sheeran surprised fans pre-holiday by dropping his new standalone song, “Afterglow.”

“We were love drunk waiting on a miracle/Trying to find ourselves in the winter snow, ” Sheeran sings softly as he strums an acoustic guitar. “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.”

“Hey, guys. ‘Afterglow’ is a song I wrote last year that I wanted to release for you,” he said on Instagram. “It’s not