Bastille

Released: July 30, 2020

Featuring: Graham Coxon

Songwriter: Mark Crew Graham Coxon Dan Smith

Producer: Mark Crew Dan Smith

[Verse 1]
Johnny's on the A train
Takin' it the wrong way
Shiny on the surface
Rotten on the inside

[Pre-Chorus]
Shake, rattle, and roll
You got control, got my attention
Make me tap and scroll
You got control, got my attention

[Chorus]
You got us listening
So what you gonna do?
Now what you gonna do with it?
You got us listening
So what you gonna do?
Now what you gonna do with it?

[Post-Chorus]
Make me paranoid
Love me, hate me, fill the void
What you gonna do with it?

[Verse 2]
Sally's never outside
Got a screen to hide behind
She says she's happy on the inside
And got a lot of friends online

[Pre-Chorus]
Shake, rattle, and roll (Shake, rattle, and roll)
You got control, got my attention
Make me tap and scroll (Make me tap and scroll)
You got control, got my attention

[Chorus]
Listening, you got us listening
So what you gonna do with it?
You got us listening
So what you gonna do?
Now what you gonna do with it?

[Post-Chorus]
Make me paranoid
Love me, hate me, fill the void
What you gonna do with it?
So who am I? You decide
Inside out, you read my mind
What you gonna do with it?

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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