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Durban SkiesBastille

Released: November 25, 2013

Songwriter: Dan Smith

Producer: Dan Smith Mark Crew

[Intro]
All that I've got to be thankful for
All that I've got to be thankful for
In the heat, try to love
These streets

[Verse 1]
In this town, it all went down
Our chromosomes in sepia tones
In my mind
In my mind
Where you led your lives before
From our small island, brought right back
To these shores, to these shores
To these shores

[Chorus]
It’s alive, it’s alive
When I see it through your eyes
It’s alive, it’s alive
Now I understand your lives
When you take me there
You show me the city; I see it through your eyes
When you take me there
We drive through the city, beneath the Durban skies

[Refrain 1]
Oh-oh oh-oh oh-oh oh-oh, oh-oh oh-oh oh
Oh-oh-oh oh-oh oh, oh-oh-oh-oh oh-oh oh
All that I've got to be thankful for...

[Verse 2]
On the day you made your vows
The heavens opened, rain poured down
It poured down, down, down...
Grey and brown, the seventies
The suits you wore, and the ones you loved
Were so young, were so young
Lord, you were so young

[Chorus]
It’s alive, it’s alive
When I see it through your eyes
It’s alive, it’s alive
Now I understand your lives
When you take me there
You show me the city; I see it through your eyes
When you take me there
We drive through the city, beneath the Durban skies

[Refrain 2]
Oh-oh oh-oh oh-oh oh-oh, oh-oh oh-oh oh
Oh-oh-oh oh-oh oh, oh-oh-oh-oh oh-oh oh
All that I've got to be thankful for...
Oh, all that I've got to be thankful for
All that I've got to be thankful for

[Chorus]
It’s alive, it’s alive
When I see it through your eyes
It’s alive, it’s alive
Now I understand your lives
When you take me there
You show me the city; I see it through your eyes
When you take me there
We drive through the city, beneath the Durban skies

[Outro]
When you take me there
There
When you take me there
There
When you take me there
It’s alive, it’s alive
When you take me there
It's alive, it's alive

Bastille

Bastille is a British indie pop band. After releasing a limited single in 2010 and the Laura Palmer EP in 2011, the band was signed to Virgin Records. Following their signing, the band released two mix-tapes – Other People’s Heartache and Other People’s Heartache Pt. 2 — for free. In an interview with The Guardian, Dan Smith discussed the

Someone recently said to ‘The mixtapes were very clever, was that the label’s idea?’ Actually the label were completely against it; we were stealing and sampling illegally left, right and centre. The label ‘We want nothing to do with this.’ When it came to hosting the mixtapes, I had to register the website myself.

Preceding the release of their debut album, Bad Blood, the band released several singles — “Overjoyed”, “Bad Blood” and “Flaws”— to moderate commercial success. In February 2013, the band was catapulted into the charts by the album’s fourth single, “Pompeii”. The song was a commercial hit, going up to 5x Platinum around the world. In June 2014, “Pompeii” was confirmed to be the United Kingdom’s most streamed song ever. Unfortunately, it has since been overtaken.

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