Bastille

Released: December 10, 2012

Featuring: Senator Bernie Sanders Erika Footman

Songwriter: Kid Harpoon Florence Welch Calvin Harris Dan Smith

Producer: Mark Crew Dan Smith

[Excerpt 1]
"How are you?"
"Well, it's been a long time since anybody's asked me that."

[Verse 1: Bastille]
You took my heart and you held it in your mouth
And with a word all my love came rushing out
And every whisper, it's the worst
Emptied out by a single word
There's a hollow in me now

[Verse 2: Bastille]
It isn't easy for me to let it go
Cause I swallow every single word
And every whisper, every sigh
Eats away this heart of mine
And there is a hollow in me now

[Chorus: Bastille]
So I put my faith in something unknown
I'm living on such sweet nothing
But I'm trying to hope with nothing to hold
I'm living on such sweet nothing
And it's hard to learn
And it's hard to love
When you're giving me such sweet nothing
Sweet nothing, sweet nothing
You're giving me…

[Bridge: Erika]
But if you close your eyes
Does it almost feel like nothing changed at all?
And if you close your eyes
Does it almost feel like you've been here before?

[Bridge: Bernie Sanders]
The lesson to be learned here is
Since their greed and recklessness and illegal behavior
So many people to lose their homes
These guys have learnt nothing!

[Chorus: Bastille]
How am I gonna be an optimist about this?
How am I gonna be an optimist about this?
If you close your eyes
Does it almost feel like nothing changed at all?

[Outro]
"I'm great."

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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Other People’s Heartache, pt. 2

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Other People’s Heartache, pt. 2 (2012)

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