Duffy releases new song River in the Sky after sharing kidnapping trauma

The Welsh singer has released a new song. Photo / Getty Images

Duffy has shared a new track after opening up about the trauma she experienced when she was kidnapped.

The 35-year-old singer shared in February the harrowing reason she was absent from the spotlight for 10 years, revealing she was kidnapped, drugged, and raped.

The new song River in the Sky lets listeners in on her journey she went through processing her trauma, Independent reports.

Sharing the song on Instagram, she wrote that the track was "for the better days to come".

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Duffy, real name Aimee Anne Duffy, sings "Why oh why do we cry, do we cry / Just like a river in the sky."

According to the Guardian, she references being afraid of the dark and finding comfort from a presence that visited her in the night.

The lyrics include: "I pray to fly, burden-free" and "If I let myself go back in time/ I see the sadness in her eyes / she knew the tears would always come and go."

In April the singer shared a lengthy post on her website going into detail about her horrific experience.

Duffy shared what happened to her during the month-long ordeal, where she was drugged in her own home.

"It was my birthday, I was drugged at a restaurant, I was drugged then for four weeks and travelled to a foreign country," the singer wrote in a post published on her website.

"I can't remember getting on the plane and came around in the back of a travelling vehicle. I was put into a hotel room and the perpetrator returned and raped me."

"I do not know how I had the strength to endure those days, I did feel the presence of something that would track me down as a missing person."

Duffy shot to fame in the late 2000's with her hit Mercy and her critically acclaimed album Rockferry. In 2010, she released her second album Endlessly.

The new track follows the March release of her song Something Beautiful.

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