Leave Your Lover – English Lyrics

• By: Sam Smith

Lyrics & Translation

Explore the depths of unrequited love with Sam Smith's "Leave Your Lover," a beautifully sad piano ballad that captures the raw emotion of longing. Discover the nuances of this song and learn how Smith turned personal heartache into a powerful and relatable musical experience.

[English]

I don't have much to give, but I don't care for gold

What use is money, when you need someone to hold?

Don't have direction, I'm just rolling down this road

Waiting for you to bring me in from out the cold

You'll never know the endless nights, the rhyming of the rain

Or how it feels to fall behind and watch you call his name

Pack up and leave everything

Don't you see what I can bring?

Can't keep this beating heart at bay

Set my midnight sorrow free

I will give you all of me

Just leave your lover, leave him for me

Leave your lover, leave him for me

We sit in bars and raise our drinks to growing old

Oh, I'm in love with you and you will never know

But if I can't have you, I'll walk this life alone

Spare you the rising storms and let the rivers flow

You'll never know the endless nights, the rhyming of the rain

Or how it feels to fall behind and watch you call his name

Pack up and leave everything

Don't you see what I can bring?

Can't keep this beating heart at bay

Set my midnight sorrow free

I will give you all of me

Just leave your lover, leave him for me

Leave your lover, leave him for me

Leave your lover, leave him for me

Key Grammar Structures

• What use is money, when you need someone to hold?

  ➔ Rhetorical Question / Fixed Expression "What use is..."

  ➔ "What use is" is a rhetorical question that means "What is the benefit of...?" or "What is the point of...?" It emphasizes that something is useless in a particular situation.

• Waiting for you to bring me in from out the cold

  ➔ Verb + Object + Infinitive (for purpose/action)

  ➔ The structure "waiting for 'you' to 'bring'" shows that the subject is expecting or hoping for another person ("you") to perform a specific action ("bring me in from out the cold").

• You'll never know the endless nights, the rhyming of the rain

  ➔ Future Simple for Strong Prediction / Assertion

  ➔ "You'll never know" uses the future simple tense with "never" to express a strong, definitive prediction or assertion that the listener will absolutely not experience or understand something.

• Or how it feels to fall behind and watch you call his name

  ➔ Verbs of Perception + Object + Base Form

  ➔ The structure "watch 'you' call" uses a verb of perception ("watch") followed by an object ("you") and then the base form of a verb ("call") to indicate that the observer witnessed the entire action.

• Don't you see what I can bring?

  ➔ Negative Rhetorical Question

  ➔ "Don't you see" is a rhetorical question asked in the negative, implying that the answer should be obvious. It's used to express frustration or to emphasize a point that the speaker believes the listener should already understand.

• Can't keep this beating heart at bay

  ➔ Modal Verb "Can't" + Idiomatic Expression "keep at bay"

  ➔ "Can't keep... at bay" means unable to control or prevent something (in this case, intense emotion represented by "this beating heart") from affecting or overwhelming oneself.

• I will give you all of me

  ➔ Future Simple for Promise / Determination

  ➔ "I will give" uses "will" to express a firm promise or a strong determination to perform an action, indicating a commitment from the speaker.

• Just leave your lover, leave him for me

  ➔ Imperative Mood

  ➔ "Leave your lover" is an imperative sentence, functioning as a direct command or a very strong request, expressing the speaker's urgent desire for the listener to take a specific action.

• But if I can't have you, I'll walk this life alone

  ➔ First Conditional with Modal Verb in Condition Clause

  ➔ This is a first conditional sentence ("if I can't have you, I'll walk..."). The use of "can't" in the "if" clause expresses an inability or impossibility in the condition, leading to a certain future outcome.