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The DriverBastille

Released: October 27, 2014

Songwriter: Dan Smith

Producer: Dan Smith Mark Crew

[Verse 1]
Shout-out from the bottom of my lungs
A plague on both your houses
This thing, it's a family affair
It's drawing out my weakness

[Chorus]
Big boys don't cry
They don't ask why
There was a time when a moment like this
Wouldn't ever cross my mind
The sun will rise with my name on your lips
‘Cause everything will change tonight

[Verse 2]
I want to be back on the ground
Where my feet touch my shadow
I want to dig my heels in the dirt
Feel it break between all of my toes
Anything to stop floating around
Drag me down back down below
Take breath and push the anger down
Try to remember calmness

[Chorus]
Big boys don't cry
They don't ask why
There was a time when a moment like this
Wouldn't ever cross my mind
The sun will rise with my name on your lips
‘Cause everything will change tonight

[Verse 3]
Hey now, what's the gravity upon your face?
Aren't I the one who's bleeding?
Real men, always thinking with our fists
My turn to be the victim

[Chorus]
Big boys don't cry
They don't ask why
There was a time when a moment like this
Wouldn't ever cross my mind
The sun will rise with my name on your lips
‘Cause everything will change tonight

[Outro]
There was a time when a moment like this
Wouldn't ever cross my mind
The sun will rise with my name on your lips
‘Cause everything will change tonight

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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