Face It Alone was released by Queen on Thursday, October 13, after earlier this summer they teased the existence of a song with vocals by the late vocalist Freddie Mercury. The dramatic, deeply moving song was produced during the band’s 1988 recording sessions for The Miracle, their penultimate album with Mercury.

Mercury begins the somber tune, “When something so near and dear to life/ Explodes inside/ You feel your soul is set on fire,” over guitarist Brian May’s banjo-like plucking, three years before he died at age 45 from complications associated with AIDS.

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With the words, “When something so deep and so far and wide/ Falls down beside your cries can be heard/ So loud and clear,” Mercury moves into a more intense, strong range by the second verse.

The voice then leans into the melodious, single chorus, “You life is your own/ You’re in charge of yourself/ Master of your home/ In the end, in the end/ You have to face it all alone.”

Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor said they had come upon the tune while working on the big reissue of The Miracle in a June BBC Radio 2 interview. In the conversation, Taylor, 72, said, “We did find a little gem from Freddie that we’d kind of forgotten about. And it’s wonderful. Actually, it was a real discovery.”

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According to May, he and Taylor had been debating the song’s release for some time. May said, “It was kind of hiding in plain sight. We looked at it many times and thought, ‘Oh no, we can’t really rescue that.'” However, they returned this year with the assistance of some studio magicians. They were able to improve what May at the time called a “very passionate piece,” he claimed.

The band’s 13th album, which will be released as the 8-disc Queen The Miracle Collector’s Edition box set, will be rereleased on Nov. 18 and features the lead single, the first brand-new song with Mercury vocals in more than 8 years. According to a press release announcing the box, the collection would include a disc with more than an hour’s worth of previously unheard recordings, including six unrecorded tracks.

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The album will also include audio of the group’s “candid spoken exchanges on the studio floor in London and Montreaux,” providing a glimpse into the group’s “creative process and the joy, in-jokes, and banter on their return to working together.” The song Too Much Love Will Kill You will also be reinstated, having been abruptly dropped from the original album due to publication issues.

Outtakes, instrumentals, a 76-page hardcover book with never-before-seen images, handwritten fan club letters from the band, press reviews, films, and interviews—including the final conversation with former bassist John Deacon—are among the additional features.