Sam Smith fans in tears as he returns to music after two years with Too Good At Goodbyes

Smith said the poignant single is about a previous relationship
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Emma Powell8 September 2017
The Weekender

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Sam Smith made sure to make an impact as he returned to music after a two year hiatus with poignant new single, Too Good At Goodbyes.

The 25-year-old dropped the track on his official VEVO page on Friday morning after days of teasing, before it was given its first play on Nick Grimshaw’s BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show.

Fans were left overcome with emotion over the lyrics which include: “So I’m never gonna get to close to you, even when I mean the most to you, in case you go and leave me in the dirt.”

One user tweeted: “So Sam Smith has officially put me into my feels, no one talk to me for a week #TooGoodAtGoodbyes.”

Another posted: “Sam Smith always has me crying about a relationship I've never had.”

The Vamps singer James McVey also posted: “Finally!!!! @samsmithworld is back. #TooGoodAtGoodbyes is insane and he's such a lovely guy. Get this tune!”

Smith recently opened up about the track, telling Zane Lowe that it “is about me and about a relationship that I was in.”

He said: “What I’ve been through relationship wise the last year has made me a lot stronger and I feel like I’ve learned some lessons from it.

“I’m still very, very single. I think I’m even more single than I was when I released In the Lonely Hour, so I’m insanely single.

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“People are gonna see, this one as I’ve said is about me and something that I’ve gone through.”

Smith released his last single, The Writing’s On The Wall, in 2015. The song, which provided the theme for James Bond’s Spectre, won Best Original Song at the 2016 Oscars.

He is currently gearing up to release his next album before Christmas, which will have autobiographical elements.

“This album actually is not all about me,” he said. “There’s about four songs that are about me and the rest are about different things and different people in my life and what they’ve gone through.

“Different in my opinions on different things. I wanted to welcome people back in and I want it to be about my voice and about the storytelling of something that I’ve gone through.”

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