Eylsia presents her achingly candid new single “Wake Up in the Morning,” a deeply personal tale of loss, strength, and finding yourself again. The song is an intimate dialogue with herself, a slow, measured grappling with the silence that comes after life’s loudest hits.
The story of Eylsia is one few could tell and fewer still could tell as beautifully. A teenage tennis prodigy who became the Irish Open champion at 14, she appeared destined for a whirlwind journey of movement and medals. But fate had other plans. By 18, although she returned for stints at Wimbledon and the United States Open, an injury left her athletic dreams flat.
“Wake Up in the Morning” captures that quasi-religious moment. The song begins with a fragile openness, her own voice seeming to tremble above subdued production. But as the tune grows, a quiet resistance stirs, a recognition that waking up alone doesn’t equate to waking in defeat. There is a sensation of every word being part of that evolution, as well as the emotion imbued in each, and the music that supports them.
Eylsia makes the splendid, she alchemizes loneliness into holy solitude. Her voice doesn’t just relate her story, it invites listeners to see their own reflection in it. On this single, she doesn’t emerge as the player who used to dominate hard courts but as the artist now dominating the silence.