Sam Smith
How to Cry lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Beginner
- Released
- 2023
- Genre
- Pop, R&B
- Length
- 2:41
I don't know when you're sad
I can't tell when you're mad
You've never been vulnerable
I believed you could change
But you're still the same
And I'm still invisible
I keep secrets from my family
All the ways you been controlling me
When it hurt, I didn't make a sound
All the drama that you put us through
How amazing that it's never you
Who lit the fire, burnt the whole house down
'Cause nobody taught you how to cry
But somebody showed you how to lie
All of the feelings you don't show
Are all of the reasons to let go
I know I got nothing left
I know I got nothing left
I get that it's deep
You've never been free
You've never been satisfied
And you blame that on me
The pain you can't see
The anger you hold inside
I keep secrets from my friends at home
So embarrassed, I've been so alone
God I'm over me protecting you
'Cause nobody taught you how to cry
But somebody showed you how to lie
All of the feelings you don't show
Are all of the reasons to let go
I know I got nothing left
I know I got nothing left, no
I know I got nothing left, mmh-mh
I know I got nothing left, mmh-mmh
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Key vocabulary
- don't
- do notA1
- secrets
- hidden private thingsA2
- fire
- burning flamesA1
- free
- not paid; not controlledA1
- friends
- people you likeA1
- go
- move to a placeA1
- house
- building to live inA1
- it's
- it isA1
- sound
- noise; hearA1
- still
- not movingA1
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About this song
Sam Smith is a British singer in pop and soul, known for emotionally direct ballads and a high-velocity falsetto voice. They first broke through as a featured vocalist on dance hits before rising to global attention with In the Lonely Hour and later Grammy-winning releases including the Bond theme “Writing’s on the Wall” and Gloria.