Bastille

Released: November 14, 2011

Songwriter: Dan Smith

Producer: Mark Crew Dan Smith

[Intro]
Things we lost to the flames
Things we'll never see again
All that we've amassed
Sits before us, shattered into ash

[Chorus 1]
These are the things, the things we lost
The things we lost in the fire, fire, fire
These are the things, the things we lost
The things we lost in the fire, fire, fire

[Verse 1]
We sat and made a list
Of all the things that we had
Down the backs of table tops
Ticket stubs and your diaries
I read them all one day
When loneliness came and you were away
Oh, they told me nothing new
But I love to read the words you use

[Chorus 1]
These are the things, the things we lost
The things we lost in the fire, fire, fire
These are the things, the things we lost
The things we lost in the fire, fire, fire

[Verse 2]
I was the match and you were the rock
Maybe we started this fire?
We sat apart and watched
All we had burned on the pyre
You said, (Oh oh oh) "We were born with nothing
And we sure as hell have nothing now"
You said, "We were born with nothing
And we sure as hell have nothing now"

[Chorus 1]
These are the things, the things we lost
The things we lost in the fire, fire, fire
These are the things, the things we lost
The things we lost in the fire, fire, fire

[Bridge]
Do you understand that we will
Never be the same again?
Do you understand that we will
Never be the same again?
The future's in our hands and we will
Never be the same again
The future's in our hands and we will
Never be the same again

[Chorus 2]
These are the things (These are the things), the things we lost (The things we lost)
The things we lost in the fire, fire, fire
These are the things (These are the things), the things we lost (The things we lost)
The things we lost in the fire, fire, fire
These are the things (These are the things), the things we lost (The things we lost)
These are the things we lost in the fire, fire, fire

[Outro]
Flames, they licked the walls
Tenderly, they turned to dust all that I adored...

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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