SAM SMITH - FOR THE LOVER THAT I LOST

FOR THE LOVER THAT I LOST

SAM SMITH

SONGWRITERS: SAM SMITH; MIKKEL STORLEER ERIKSEN; TOR ERIK HERMANSEN & JAMES NAPIER

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: LOVE GOES

LABEL: CAPITOL

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 2020

 

        Samuel Frederick Smith(born 19 May 1992) is an English singer and songwriter. They rose to prominence in October 2012 after being featured on Disclosure's breakthrough single "Latch", which peaked at number eleven on the UK Singles Chart. Smith was subsequently featured on Naughty Boy's "La La La", which became a number one single in May 2013. In December 2013, they were nominated for the 2014 Brit Critics' Choice Award and the BBC's Sound of 2014 poll, winning both.

        Smith's debut studio album, In the Lonely Hour, was released in May 2014 on Capitol Records UK. The album's lead single, "Lay Me Down", was released prior to "La La La". The album's second single, "Money on My Mind", became Smith's second number one single in the UK. The third single, "Stay with Me", was an international success, reaching number one in the UK and number two on the US Billboard Hot 100, while their singles "I'm Not the Only One" and "Like I Can" reached the top ten in the UK. The album won four awards, at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards, including Best Pop Vocal Album, Best New Artist, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and nominations for Album of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance.

          For Smith's and Jimmy Napes's song "Writing's on the Wall", the theme for the James Bond film Spectre(2015), Smith won the Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Smith's second studio album, The Thrill of It All, was released in November 2017 and debuted atop the UK and US album charts. The lead single, "Too Good at Goodbyes", reached number one in the UK and Australia and number four in the US. They released the single "Promises" with Calvin Harris, which peaked at number one in the UK. Smith released "Dancing with a Stranger" with Normani in 2019, which reached the top ten in the UK and the US and was nominated for Song of the Year at the 2020 Brit Awards, and followed it by releasing a string of commercially successful singles "How Do You Sleep?", "To Die For", and "I'm Ready" with Demi Lovato; all of which feature on Smith's third album, Love Goes.

        Love Goes is the third studio album by English singer Sam Smith. It was released on 30 October 2020 through Capitol Records. The album was originally planned to be titled To Die For and was due for release in June 2020 but was delayed amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Smith also felt it was insensitive to use the word "die" due to what many people were going through. The album won a GLAAD Media Award in the Outstanding Music Artist category in April 2021.

Hmm

Think about your lips and the way they kiss

There's so much I really miss about you

Sitting on the beach, you were still in reach

And I haven't felt free without you

 

All of the memories feel like magic

All of the fighting seemed so sweet

All that we were, my love, was tragic

And you're the last thing that I need

 

So I lay a dozen roses for the lover that I've lost

I stand by all my choices, even though I paid the cost

Oh, all those nights, the lows and highs, I share them all with you

So I lay a dozen roses, I lay them there, I lay them there for you, mm

 

You've been on my mind, every single night

I can't visualize life without you

I've been tryna go a week without losing sleep

But there's something that I need to go through

 

All of the memories feel like magic

All of the fighting seemed so sweet

All that we were, my love, was tragic

And you're the last thing that I need

 

So I lay a dozen roses for the lover that I've lost

I stand by all my choices, even though I paid the cost

Oh, all those nights, the lows and highs, I share them all with you

So I lay a dozen roses, I lay them there, I lay them there for you, oh, oh

 

So I lay a dozen roses for the lover that I've lost

I stand by all my choices, even though I paid the cost

Oh, all those nights, lows and highs, I share them all with you

So I lay a dozen roses, I lay them there, I lay them there for you.