Released: February 4, 2022

Songwriter: Dan Smith

Producer: Mark Crew Dan Smith

[Intro]
Tell me we'll be alright
Say that we'll be fine

[Verse 1]
Plug me right in, jump through the screen
Final frontier, I can be anything
Maddening scenes, Anthropocene
Blink and you'll miss us like we were a dream
Maybe A.I. is the messiah
My machine's learned all my kinks and desires
Virtual porn, airbrush my jaw
Are we having fun yet?
Endless hot takes, chaos'll reign
Guess we learned nothing from history's mistakes
Billionaires, rocket to Mars
Stuck on Earth drinking in drivеrless cars
Icecaps'll fall, Cali'll burn
Willful denial until it's my turn
Bunch of old whitе men who don't give a fuck
Are we having fun yet?

[Chorus]
Tell me we'll be alright
Say that we'll be fine
Lie to me it's alright, right?
Say that we'll be fine
Just a little bit of tenderness
It's a little bit of tenderness
Say that we'll be alright, right?
Even if it's lies

[Verse 2]
Hollywood has painted us a fucked up fate
Say you'll resurrect me as a young deepfake
Genius minds fix all our crimes
So we can have fun, yeah?
We're living in a sci-fi fantasy
I'm sleeping with the robot next to me
Find planet B, that's all we need
So we can have fun

[Chorus]
Tell me we'll be alright
Say that we'll be fine
Lie to me it's alright, right?
Say that we'll be fine
Just a little bit of tenderness
It's a little bit of tenderness
Say that we'll be alright, right?
Even if it's lies

[Post-Chorus]
Just a little bit of tenderness
A little bit of tenderness
Say that we'll be alright
Even if it's lies

[Outro]
Just a little bit of tenderness
A little bit of tenderness
Say that we'll be alright
Even if it's lies

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.