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Sam Smith has shared the stormy new single 'When He's Gone'
Third preview of 'Hazel Eyes' lands ahead of Mexico and UK residency dates.
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A slow-burning ballad from Sam Smith's 2017 album 'The Thrill of It All', released as a promotional single on 27 October that year. Smith described it as his favourite track on the record, a claim that speaks to the raw emotional weight the song carries. The lyric builds its central metaphor around literal and figurative combustion: 'I've been burning up since you left', Smith sings, the flame on the chest an image of uninsurable damage. The smoking references layer a second meaning over the heartbreak, the habit framed as rebellion even as the narrator admits to isolation and regret. The chorus returns to that consuming fire, the love replaced by something hotter and more destructive. Stripped of ornament, the track leans into gospel-tinged balladry, Smith's voice carrying the full weight of the confession. It sits alongside the Timbaland collaboration 'Pray' as one of the promotional releases that built anticipation for the album's arrival.
"Burning" is a single by Sam Smith, from the album The Thrill of It All, released 3rd November 2017. The track is 3:23 long. It's filed under Pop. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about Sam Smith.
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Second single lifted from fifth album 'Hazel Eyes', arriving 21st August.
The run precedes fifth album 'Hazel Eyes', led by Feist collaboration 'My Guy'.
"This album is an incredibly special record to me," says Sam.
Keep an eye out for more on the foundation soon.
It's the duo's first collaboration together.