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PoetBastille

Released: November 25, 2013

Songwriter: Dan Smith

Producer: Mark Crew Dan Smith

[Verse 1]
Obsession, it takes control
Obsession, it eats me whole

[Pre-Chorus 1]
I can't say the words out loud
So in rhyme I wrote you down
Now you live through the ages
I can feel your pulse in the pages

[Chorus]
I have written you down now
You will live forever
And all the world will read you
You will live forever
In eyes not yet created
On tongues that are not born
I have written you down now
You will live forever

[Verse 2]
Your body lies upon the sheets
Of paper, and words so sweet

[Pre-Chorus 2]
I can't say the words
So I wrote you into my verse
Now you live through the ages
I can feel your pulse in the pages

[Chorus]
I have written you down now
You will live forever
And all the world will read you
You will live forever
In eyes not yet created
On tongues that are not born
I have written you down now
You will live forever

[Bridge]
I have read her with these eyes
I have read her with these eyes
I have held her in these hands...
I have written you down now
You will live forever
The virtue's in the verse and
You will live forever

[Chorus]
I have written you down now
You will live forever
And all the world will read you
You will live forever
In eyes not yet created
On tongues that are not born
I have written you down now
You will live forever

[Outro]
You will live forever...

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.

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