Bastille

Released: November 14, 2011

Songwriter: Dan Smith

Producer: Dan Smith Mark Crew

[Intro]
Ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh-ooh
Ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh

[Verse 1]
Walking out into the dark, cutting out a different path
Lead by a beating heart
All the people of the town cast their eyes right to the ground
In matters of the heart

[Pre-Chorus]
The night was all you had
You ran into the night from all you had
Found yourself a path up on the ground
You ran into the night; you can't be found

[Chorus 1]
But this is your heart
Can you feel it? Can you feel it?
Pumps through your veins
Can you feel it? Can you feel it?

[Verse 2]
Summer evening breezes blew, drawing voices deep from you
Lead by your beating heart
What a year and what a night, what terrifying final sights
Put out your beating heart

[Pre-Chorus]
The night was all you had
You ran into the night from all you had
Found yourself a path up on the ground
You ran into the night; you can't be found

[Chorus 1]
But, this is your heart
Can you feel it? Can you feel it?
Pumps through your veins
Can you feel it? Can you feel it?

[Bridge]
If you had your gun
Would you shoot it at the sky?
Why--to see where it would fall
Or will you come down at all?

If you had your gun
Would you shoot it at the sky?
Why--to see where your bullet would fall
Or will you come down at all?

[Chorus 1]
This is your heart
Can you feel it? Can you feel it?
Pumps through your veins
Can you feel it? Can you feel it?

[Chorus 2]
This is your racing heart
Can you feel it? Can you feel it?
Pumps through your veins
Can you feel it? Can you feel 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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