Bastille

Released: December 6, 2019

Featuring: The Chamber Orchestra of London

Songwriter: Dan Smith

Producer: Mark Crew Dan Smith

[Verse 1]
I breathe in hard
Don't speak, 'cause it's like a bitter pill
You blow my mind
It makes my heart beat
The king's a clown
No one is laughing, it's not a drill
Don't look outside
The world is ending
Faster, faster, faster, faster, fast

[Pre-Chorus]
The echoes of that news ring loud
(The echoes, the echoes)
No sound can ever drown it out
(The echoes)

[Chorus]
It breaks my heart
Breaks my heart into
A million pieces, oh
It breaks my heart into
A million pieces
If it's gonna break me
Won't you let me go?
Leave it till the morning
I don't wanna know
Breaks my heart
Breaks my heart into
A million pieces
(Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
A million pieces

[Verse 2]
We're too far gone
Nothing I say will mean anything
Just drink, fuck, dance
Right through disaster
I don't want to talk about it now

[Pre-Chorus]
The echoes of that news ring loud
(The echoes, the echoes)
No music ever drowns it out
(The echoes)

[Chorus]
It breaks my heart
Breaks my heart into
A million pieces, oh
It breaks my heart into
A million pieces
If it's gonna break me
Won't you let me go?
Leave it till the morning
I don't wanna know
Breaks my heart
Breaks my heart into
A million pieces
(Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
A million pieces

[Bridge]
Get fear and loathing out your mind
And don't pull me, don't pull me down from the ceiling

[Chorus]
It breaks my heart
It breaks my heart into
A million pieces, oh
It breaks my heart into
A million pieces
If it's gonna break me
Won't you let me go?
Leave it till the morning
I don't wanna know
Breaks my heart
Breaks my heart into
A million pieces

[Outro]
(Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
A million pieces
(Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
A million pieces
(Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
A million pieces
(Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)

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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