MIDNIGHT
TRAIN
SAM
SMITH
SONGWRITERS:
NAIPER JAMES JOHN & HO JAMES RYAN WUIHUM
COUNTRY:
U. K.
ALBUM: THE TRILL OF IT ALL
LABEL: CAPITOL
RECORDS
GENRE: R
& B
YEAR:
2017
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.
As of April 2021, Smith has sold over 30
million albums worldwide. Their achievements include four Grammy Awards, three Brit Awards, three Billboard Music
Awards, and an American
Music Award, as well as a Golden Globe and an Academy Award. Smith
is genderqueer and uses
they/them pronouns.
The Thrill of It All is the second studio
album by English singer and songwriter Sam Smith.
It was released on 3
November 2017 through Capitol
Records.
I choose me
And I know that’s selfish, love
You are a dream
And I can’t thank you enough
But I give another piece of me away
Every waking day that I’m with you
Am I a monster?
What will your family think of me?
They brought me in
They helped me out with everything
But I give a little piece of me away
Every single day
So I pick up the
pieces
I get on the midnight train
I got my reasons
But darling I can’t explain
I’ll always love you
But tonight’s the night I choose to walk away
Bah-bah, doo,
bah-bah, doo
Bah-bah, doo, bah-bah, doo
Love you so Much
That I have to let you go
I’ll miss your touch
And the secrets we both know
But it would be wrong for me to stay
And I’ll just give you hope
So I pick up the
pieces
I get on the midnight train
I got my reasons
But darling I can’t explain
I’ll always love you
But tonight’s the night I choose to walk away
I can’t stop crying
I hate that I’ve caused you pain
But I can’t deny it
I just don’t feel the same
I’ll always love you
But tonight’s the night I choose to walk Away
Bah-bah, doo,
bah-bah, doo
Bah-bah, doo, bah-bah, doo
So I pick up the
pieces
I get on the midnight train
I got my reasons
But darling I can’t explain
I’ll always love you
But tonight’s the night I choose to walk away.