'River in the Sky' - Duffy shares emotional new single "for the better days to come"

Duffy has shared her brand new track 'River in the Sky' following the release of 'Something Beautiful', which the Welsh singer first debuted on Jo Whiley's radio show in March.

The song comes after the musician revealed in February that she was drugged, held captive and raped by an unidentified person in the early 2010s, prompting her to retreat from the public eye.

'River in the Sky' is “for the better days to come”, the singer-songwriter said in a post accompanying the the track.

The 35-year-old singer (full name Aimee Anne Duffy) sings of being “afraid of the dark”, and of a presence who visits her in the night and “covers me so patiently as I learn to deal with the pain”.

“Why oh why do we cry, do we cry / Just like a river in the sky," she sings in the chorus.

Duffy posted a message on Instagram – since deleted – in February about her ordeal with sexual violence.

“I was raped and drugged and held captive over some days. Of course I survived. The recovery took time. There’s no light way to say it. But in the last decade, the thousands and thousands of days I committed to wanting to feel the sunshine in my heart again, the sun does now shine.”

She later published an essay on her website detailing the horrific incident of being drugged on her birthday in a restaurant before being held captive in her home and taken abroad.

Duffy could not remember boarding a plane, and came around in the back of a moving vehicle, before the perpetrator put her in a hotel room and raped her.

She said in April that she did not know how she had “the strength to endure those days”.

Listen to Duffy's new song 'River in the Sky' below:

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