“Go home to nothing or stay out more? Give in to someone or lock down my door? Or drown all my shadows, drown them like before?” he sings to piano and strings. Smith sings: “I don’t know how I’ve reached this place / So far from heaven, so far from grace. So sorry if anyone’s in a happy mood,” Smith joked as he premiered the song Monday, November 2 on Apple’s Beats One radio.ĭescribed by Smith as “the saddest song I’ve ever written,” the 23-year-old English crooner demonstrates the power of his soaring, soulful voice on “Drowning Shadows” as he narrates his battles with alcohol and casual sex. “Brace yourself, this is going to be really depressing. Smith returns to his familiar subject matter of fleeting love on “Drowning Shadows,” a previously unreleased song that will appear on a deluxe edition of his blockbuster album In The Lonely Hour that comes out Friday. NEW YORK, USA – Sam Smith was by some measures last year’s biggest breakthrough musician, but on his latest song, he is sadder than ever.
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