Bastille

Released: March 4, 2013

Songwriter: Dan Smith

Producer: Dan Smith Mark Crew

[Verse 1]
When all of your flaws and all of my flaws are laid out one by one
A wonderful part of the mess that we made
We pick ourselves undone
All of your flaws and all of my flaws
They lie there hand in hand
Ones we've inherited, ones that we learn
They pass from man to man

[Pre-Chorus]
There's a hole in my soul
I can't fill it, I can't fill it
There's a hole in my soul
Can you fill it? Can you fill it?

[Chorus]
You have always worn your flaws upon your sleeve
And I have always buried them deep beneath the ground
Dig them up
Let's finish what we've started
Dig them up
So nothing's left unturned

[Verse 2]
All of your flaws and all of my flaws
When they have been exhumed
We'll see that we need them to be who we are
Without them, we'd be doomed

[Pre-Chorus]
There's a hole in my soul
I can't fill it, I can't fill it
There's a hole in my soul
Can you fill it? Can you fill it?

[Chorus]
You have always worn your flaws upon your sleeve
And I have always buried them deep beneath the ground
Dig them up
Let's finish what we've started
Dig them up
So nothing's left unturned

[Bridge]
When all of your flaws and all of my flaws are counted
When all of your flaws and all of my flaws are counted

[Chorus]
You have always worn your flaws upon your sleeve
And I have always buried them deep beneath the ground
Dig them up
Let's finish what we've started
Dig them up
So nothing's left unturned
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

[Outro]
All of your flaws and all of my flaws are laid out one by one
Look at the wonderful mess that we made
We pick ourselves undone

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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