Released: January 1, 2013

Songwriter: Dan Smith

Producer: Dan Smith Mark Crew

[Intro]
We had, had
We had, had, we were
We had, had
We had, had, I had
We had, had
We had, had, we were
We had, had
We had, had, I had
We had, had
We had, had, I had

[Verse 1]
We sat and made a (Had)
Of all the things that we ha— (We had)
Down the backs of table tops
Ticket stubs in your dia—
(We had) I read them (We had, we, we were)
I read them (We had) all
I read them (We had, we had, we had)
I read them (We had) all

[Chorus 1]
Things, things, things (Lost, lost)
L-l-lost, fire, fire, fire (Lost, lost)
These are the things (Lost, lost)
L-l-lost, fire, fire, fire (Lost, lost)
Things, things, things (Lost, lost)
(These things we lost)
L-l-lost, in the fire, fire, fire (Lost, lost)
(In the fire, fire, fire)
Things, things, things are (Lost, lost)
(These things we lost)
L-l-lost, in the fire, fire, fire (Lost, lost)

[Verse 2]
You said
(We had, things, we had)
(Things, in fire)
(We had, things)
(We had, things, we had)
(We had, things, we had)
(Things, in fire)
(We had, things, we had)
(Things, in fire)
"We were born with nothing
And we sure as Hell have nothing now"
"We were born with nothing
And we sure as Hell have nothing now"

[Chorus 2]
Things, things, things (Lost, lost)
L-l-lost, fire, fire, fire (Lost, lost)
These are the things (Lost, lost)
L-l-lost, fire, fire, fire (Lost, lost)
Things, things, things (Lost, lost)
(These things we lost)
L-l-lost, in the fire, fire, fire (Lost, lost)
(In the fire, fire, fire)
Things, things, things are (Lost, lost)
(These things we lost)
L-l-lost, in the fire, fire, fire (Lost, lost)

[Chorus 3]
(Never be the same again)
(Things, things, things)
(Fire, fire, fire)
(Thing, things, things)
(L-l-lost, fire, fire, fire)
(Things, things, things)
(L-l-lost, fire, fire, fire)
Things, things, things (Lost, lost)
(These things we lost)
L-l-lost, fire, fire, fire (Lost, lost)
These are the things
(These things we lost)
L-l-lost, in the fire, fire, fire (Lost, lost)
Things, things, things (Lost, lost)
(These things we lost)
L-l-lost, fire, fire, fire (Lost, lost)
Things, things, fire
(These things we lost)
L-l-lost, fire, fire, fire (Lost, lost)

[Outro]
Oh
Fire

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.