the script

“Ashes on the Water” is a storm-soaked fusion of melodic post-hardcore emotion and euphoric EDM atmosphere, built around the ache of losing someone you can’t let go of. The song opens with distant thunder, soft ambient pads, and clean, vulnerable vocals before expanding into a sweeping wall of sound—bright detuned synths, airy future-bass chords, and palm-muted guitars shimmering beneath the mix.

As the verses unfold, the vocalist delivers a quiet, chest-heavy confession, almost whispering the grief that still pulls him backward like an undertow. Rain-textured percussion and side-chained pads create the feeling of floating in slow motion, caught between memory and reality.

The chorus erupts into a wide, cinematic drop—glitchy vocal chop melodies, emotional synth leads, and festival-sized EDM energy crashing together with raw melodic-hardcore intensity. It feels like screaming into a storm while the ocean throws your heart back at you.

Lyrically, the song carries imagery of lightning, open water, distant cities, and the drifting embers of someone who’s gone—ashes carried by the tide, symbolizing all the memories that refuse to fade.

By the final drop, the track becomes a cathartic release: desperate, beautiful, overwhelming.
A song about grief as an ocean, love as a ghost, and the impossible task of moving on.

Ashes on The Water

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It's Not Right for You

No Good in Goodbye

The Energy Never Dies

Man on a Wire

Go Big Or Go Home

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Freedom Child

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Our new album ‘Satellites’ - out now 📡
‘At Your Feet’ - single out now!

The Script’s gift for writing songs rich with heady emotions and ever bigger melodies has enamoured fans all over the world, leading to a catalogue of global hits such as ‘Hall of Fame’, ‘The Man Who Can’t Be Moved’, ‘Superheroes’ and ‘Breakeven’. But following the tragic loss of founder member Mark Sheehan in 2023, his bandmates Danny O’Donoghue and Glen Power vowed that the best way to pay tribute to him would be to continue the band they had built together and reconnect with The Script’s worldwide family.

Returning with their upcoming album ‘Satellites’, The Script have made a life-affirming record, bringing a fiery new energy to their anthemic, arena-filling sound. The Script prove that there can be new horizons and light after the darkness.

2024 will see The Script tour internationally as special guests to P!NK before they add to a career total of 4 million ticket sales by embarking upon a huge UK and European headline arena tour in November. Having already achieved so much - 10 billion streams, 12 million album sales, 6 UK #1 albums - an exciting new chapter in The Script’s journey is underway, and the possibilities are endless.

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The Script

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