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This is a surprise track on Sam Smith’s Gloria album, a classical-style choral production recorded in a Cambridge church. Sam’s voice emerges part way through, providing a contrasting, seemingly improvised track against the background of formal polyphonic chant.
In an interview on British morning n...
[Verse]
Demons on my shoulder
Monsters in my head
Shadow in the water
Will you be my friend?
The world revolves around me
As I lay in my bed
Dreaming of more, more
[Chorus]
Be yourself so loud tonight (So loud)
They'll hear you from the stars (And they will hear your voice)
Sparkling like dynamite (Sparkle)
If that is who you are (Is who you are)
A hymn for Gloria (For Gloria)
For Gloria, Gloria
A hymn for Gloria (Gloria)
For Gloria, Gloria (Gloria)
Gloria
Gloria (Gloria)
It's all but a hymn for Gloria (It's all a hymn for Glori—Glori—, Gloria)
It's all but a hymn for Gloria (It's for Gloria)
Gloria was produced by Sam Smith & Jimmy Napes & David Odlum.
There’s a fighter voice in all of us and you’ve just got to look after that. My album Gloria, I’ve called it Gloria because I’ve called that voice inside me Gloria. It’s like a voice in my head that just says, ‘You can do it’. And kids have just got to access that voice and feed it.
The sound of this song is one of the most beautiful sounds I’ve ever created. And the reason I think it’s one of my favourite songs is that I’m not on it. [Producer] David Odlum helped convince me to actually sing on this song. At the beginning of my career, I remember everyone telling me I was a go...