Jaeden Pinder
View all posts by Jaeden Pinder August 5, 2026
COLLIER SCHORR* Sam Smith has released “When He’s Gone,” the third single from their upcoming fifth album, Hazel Eyes. Listen to the bluesy lament below.
The track opens with finger-picked guitar as Smith croons over a long-lost lover. As the song progresses, the guitar swells and invites the rest of a band to join in, including booming drums and a chorus of voices to bolster Smith’s signature tenor. “When he’s walking out on me, he takes everything I need,” the artist sings. “My whole world’s broken when he’s gone.”
“This album explores every shade of a relationship and ‘When He’s Gone’ is more of a melancholy shade,” Smith said in a statement. “We captured it live without a click track, and built everything around that original recording to preserve the feeling of a storm rumbling in the distance.”
