Tom Chaplin’s solo debut, The Wave, approached recovery not as spectacle but as slow restoration. The deluxe edition includes “Bound Together,” co-written by Matt Morris, a song that crystallizes the album’s central tension between fragility and endurance. Built around clean acoustic textures and a melody that rises with understated determination, it is both elegy and affirmation. The lyric avoids sentimentality, finding quiet power in perseverance rather than catharsis. Critics described The Wave as Chaplin’s most humane work, and “Bound Together” captures that mood precisely — the sound of a voice rediscovering its footing, and of a songwriter framing resilience not as triumph but as practice.