Sam Smith Brings 'Too Good at Goodbyes,' 'Pray' to 'Saturday Night Live'

Introduced by host Gal Gadot, the British soul singer delivered album lead single “Too Good at Goodbyes,” a secular gospel pop lament, backed by a coterie of gospel singers, as well as “Pray.” In our current issue, Smith explained to Billboard that “Pray” was inspired by time he spent in Iraq with the charity War Child.

“I spent five days in Mosul and came back ­embarrassed that I had known so little about the world and other people’s lives,” Smith says. “I went back to that great Nina Simone quote, that it is important to speak about the times you live in. I hadn't done that; I’d just written a bunch of songs about love. So I wanted to write about how I’m now starting to open my eyes, at 25, to what is going on in the rest of the world, and that it’s not always pretty.”

Watch them below.