Bastille

Released: April 22, 2017

Songwriter: Dan Smith

Producer: Mark Crew Dan Smith

[Intro: spoken]
Tragedy, private, comfort of strangers
Pressure, pride, comfort of strangers
Tragedy, private comfort of strangers
Pressure, pride, comfort of strangers
Tragedy, private comfort of strangers

[Verse 1]
Find comfort in a stranger
Give me something unfamiliar
Between these sheets let's hide away
One light on in the city
We lose ourselves completely
Raindrops fill the alleyways

[Pre-Chorus 1]
As the world falls down around us
Give me something to remember

[Chorus]
I am holding on
In the back of my mind for dear life, dear life
Holding on
In the back of my mind for dear life, dear life
Oh I, oh I
I am holding on for dear life
Oh I, oh I
I am holding on for dear life

[Intermezzo: spoken]
Tragedy, private, comfort of strangers

[Verse 2]
Keep looking for distraction
Tonight we live in fiction
In your arms I hide away
Two bodies in the darkness
Not hard to find the weakness
Keep the morning light at bay

[Pre-Chorus 2]
As the world falls down around us
Give me something to remember

[Chorus]
I am holding on
In the back of my mind for dear life, dear life
Holding on
In the back of my mind for dear life, dear life
Oh I, oh I
I am holding on for dear life
Oh I, oh I
I am holding on for dear life

[Bridge]
When the morning comes, will it feel the same?
Will we feel the same? Will we feel the same?
When the morning comes, will it feel the same?
Will we feel the same? Will we feel the same?

[Chorus]
I am holding on
In the back of my mind for dear life, dear life
Holding on
In the back of my mind for dear life, dear life
Oh I, oh I
I am holding on for dear life
Oh I, oh I
I am holding on for dear life

[Outro]
I am holding on to you tonight for dear life
I am holding on to you tonight for dear life
I am holding on to you tonight for dear life
I am holding on to you tonight for dear life

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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