The video premiere of Sam Smith butterfly-soft track, Leave Your Lover, is a thing of beauty and wistful sadness. Shattering the notion of ‘two is company and threes a crowd’. The Luke Monaghan-directed video displays a triad of lovers overspilling with generous and genuine affection, as they paint an evening in Paris bright red, and in the end a deep shade of blue. And Sam, sings his every word caught in a rosebush of ripping thorns and silken petals, revealing bitter via dolorosa.
Look for Sam Smith’s debut album, In The Lonely Hour, out June 17th courtesy of Capitol Records. Peace.
Leave Your Lover, Lyrics:
I don’t have much to give, but I don’t care for gold
What use is money, when you need someone to hold
Don’t have direction I’m just rolling down this road
Waiting for you to bring me in from out the cold
You’ll never know the endless nights, the rhyming of the rain,
Or how it feels to fall behind and watch you call his name
Pack up and leave everything, don’t you see what I can bring
Can’t keep this beating heart at bay
Set my midnight terror free, I will give you all of me
Just leave your lover, leave him for me
Leave your lover, leave him for me
We sit in bars and raise our drinks to growing old
I’m in love with you and you will never know,
But if I can’t have you I’ll walk this life alone
Spare you the rising storms and let the rivers flow
You’ll never know the endless nights, the rhyming of the rain
Or how it feels to fall behind and watch you call his name
Pack up and leave everything, don’t you see what I can bring
Can’t keep this beating heart at bay
Set my midnight terror free, I will give you all of me
Just leave your lover, leave him for me
Leave your lover, leave him for me. x 2
Sam Smith, In The Lonely Hour, Tracklist:
1. Money On My Mind
2. Good Thing
3. Stay With Me
4. Leave Your Lover
5. I’m Not the Only One
6. I’ve Told You Now
7. Like I Can
8. Life Support
9. Not In That Way
10. Lay Me Down
11. Restart
12. Latch (Acoustic)
13. La La La (Naughty Boy feat. Sam Smith)
14. Reminds Me of You
15. Make It to Me