Bastille

Released: December 5, 2014

Featuring: Rationale Tyde

Songwriter: Rationale Nick Mills Kyle Simmons Dan Smith

Producer: Tyde

[Verse 1: Rationale]
Long-lost opinions
All the words you can't redeem
Don't come round here
And be a slave to old ideas
Scream hallelujah
If it's a thing that helps you breathe
Your iron rule has often
Had me on my knees

[Chorus: Bastille]
You'd better sharpen up, you'd better sharpen up 'cause
All you have's your axe to grind
Grind, grind
Round here
You'd better sharpen up, you'd better sharpen up 'cause
All you have's your axe to grind
Grind, grind
Round here

[Verse 2: Bastille]
Breaking the silence
Like I'm bursting at the seams
So many stifled thoughts
And long-forgotten dreams
Scream hallelujah
I can almost taste reprieve
Your iron rule has often
Had me on my knees

[Chorus: Bastille]
You'd better sharpen up, you'd better sharpen up 'cause
All you have's your axe to grind
Grind, grind
Round here
You'd better sharpen up, you'd better sharpen up 'cause
All you have's your axe to grind
Grind, grind
Round here

[Bridge: Rationale & Bastille]
Keep on talking to yourself
Cause no one needs to hear the words you reel off
Keep on talking to yourself
Cause you're gonna have to swing that axe round here
Keep on talking to yourself
Cause no one needs to hear the words you reel off
Keep on talking to yourself
Cause you're gonna have to swing that axe round here

[Chorus: Bastille]
You'd better sharpen up, you'd better sharpen up 'cause
All you have's your axe to grind
Grind, grind
Round here
You'd better sharpen up, you'd better sharpen up 'cause
All you have's your axe to grind
Grind, grind
Round here

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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