 Genius Meanings
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Sam Smith – Young
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“Young,” the first track from Sam Smith’s third studio album Love Goes, tackles the immense pressure Smith felt during the beginning of their career.
Following the track’s release
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Sam Smith – Kids Again
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In terms of the concept of the album, this song is well placed, effectively the last new track before the previously-released bonus tracks. After the opening song, “Young”, which
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Sam Smith – Pray
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“Pray” is the second single from Sam Smith’s sophomore album The Thrill of it All. The song follows lead single “Too Good at Goodbyes”, which dropped just four weeks earlier.
The
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Sam Smith & Kim Petras – Unholy
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“Unholy” is the second single from Sam Smith’s fourth studio album, Gloria, released on 27th January 2023. The song is a collaboration with German-born singer and songwriter, Kim
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Sam Smith – Another One
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This is the third track on Love Goes, influenced, according to Sam, by Swedish singer Robyn. A few months after a relationship break-up while on “The Thrill of it All” tour, Sam
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Sam Smith – To Die For
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“To Die For” is a mid-tempo, pop-soul ballad. The song comes after releasing several dance numbers in the previous eighteen months, such as “How Do You Sleep?,” “Dancing With a
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Sam Smith – How Do You Sleep?
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After weeks of teasing on Sam’s social media sites, this song was released on July 19th 2019. Sam said that they wanted to move on from heartbreak ballads, commenting in a press
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Sam Smith & Labrinth – Love Goes
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This is the title track, described by Clara Amfo when she interviewed Sam Smith for BBC Sounds, as “… so good, I love the ambition of this tune”.
The arrangement is markedly
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Sam Smith – Scars
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This song is unusual, a tribute by a young singer to their parents. Sam has often spoken appreciatively of the support and encouragement given to them by their mother and father
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Sam Smith – No God
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This is the second song on Sam Smith’s Gloria album released 27th January 2023. It has a rhymic, mid-tempo beat and jazz influences.
The lyric is sad, but far from the passive
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Sam Smith – Forgive Myself
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The spare simplicity of this ballad, reminiscent of Sam Smith’s early style, is what gives it its impact. The piano and solo cello backing is all that is needed, and the slow
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Sam Smith – Time Won’t Wait
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[Verse 1] / He sits on the stairs / Waiting for someone to get him / Bring him down to the party / But everyone forgets him / So for times will o stams[?] and shams the daddy get
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Sam Smith – Fire on Fire
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Sam Smith’s emotional vocals in “Fire on Fire” feature on the BBC and Netflix mini-series Watership Down, an adaptation of the eponymous 1972 Richard Adams novel, which debuted 23
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Sam Smith – For The Lover That I Lost
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“For The Lover That I Lost” is the seventh track from Sam Smith’s third album Love Goes. Originally co-written by Smith, Jimmy Napes and the Norwegian duo StarGate, this version is
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Genius Traducciones al Español – Sam Smith - Young (Traducción al Español)
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[Verso 1] / Quiero ser salvaje y joven / Y no tener miedo de perder / Llorar por mi cuenta / Yo y mi botella / Estas son las cosas que elijo / [Coro] / Pero me están mirando
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Sam Smith – So Serious
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In an interview with Clara Amfo for BBC Sounds Sam said they wanted “So Serious” to be “like a cute pop song” but “deep lyrically”. The story of Sam’s relationship break-up is
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Sam Smith – Diamonds
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“Diamonds” is the second official single by English singer Sam Smith, taken from their third studio album, Love Goes. The upbeat song, follows July 2020’s first single “My Oasis
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Sam Smith (Ft. Burna Boy) – My Oasis
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Since Sam Smith’s last album in 2017, there has been a steady stream of new singles. The third Sam Smith album, originally entitled To Die For was planned for Spring 2020, but the
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Sam Smith (Ft. Logic) – Pray (Remix)
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“Pray (Remix)” combines the gospel tones of Sam Smith with the hip-hop lyricism of Logic.
Similar to it’s predecessor, this remix is a ‘coming-of-age’ story about growth and self-
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Sam Smith – Too Good at Goodbyes
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“Too Good at Goodbyes” tells of a turbulent personal relationship, and is Sam Smith’s first solo release since their 2015 James Bond theme “Writing’s on the Wall.” The song is the
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Sam Smith (Ft. The Dap-Kings Horns) – One Last Song
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In their interview with Zane Lowe for Beats 1 Radio, Sam Smith said that, after their broken relationship,
… the guy I wrote the first record about started to leak back into my
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Disclosure (Ft. Sam Smith) – Omen
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United Kingdom production duo Disclosure teamed up with singing sensation Sam Smith for this second single off of their 2015 album, Caracal. This is the third collaboration between
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Sam Smith – Writing's on the Wall
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Sam Smith confirmed on 8 September 2015 that he recorded the James Bond theme song. He said on his social media:
This is one of the highlights of my career. I am honoured to
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SUBRAANSHU – Pray (Sam Smith Cover)
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I’m young and I’m foolish, I’ve made bad decisions / I block out the news, turn my back on religion / Don’t have a degree, I’m somewhat naïve / I’ve made it this far on my own
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Sam Smith – Fix You (Live)
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[Verse 1] / When you try your best, but you don't succeed / When you get what you want, but not what you need / When you feel so tired, but you can't sleep / Stuck in reverse
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Sam Smith – When I Was Your Man
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[Verse 1] / Same bed but it feels just a little bit bigger now / My song on the radio but it don't sound the same / When our friends talk about you, all it does is just tear me
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Sam Smith – Palace
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In an interview with Zane Lowe for Beats 1 Radio Sam said that ‘This was written in Nashville. I was looking back on the ghosts of my lovers.’ They expanded this further in an
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