“My music is a diary and it’s a recap of my life, and I wanted to bring that kind of honesty. “I tried to put myself in the shoes of Bond,” Smith told NPR of the song, which he wrote with “Stay With Me” collaborator Jimmy Napes in less than 30 minutes. The ballad finds Smith exploring his falsetto over elegant orchestrations, singing lines like, “If I risk it all/Could you break my heart?/How do I live?/How do I breathe?/When you’re not here, I’m suffocating.” Last month, Smith and Disclosure visited the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge and unleashed a simmering cover of Drake’s booty call jam “Hotline Bling.” The electronic duo – brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence – contributed “additional production” to Smith’s “Writing’s on the Wall,” his theme for the upcoming James Bond film Spectre.
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