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Bastille – Pompeii
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“Pompeii” was the fourth song to be released from Bastille’s debut album Bad Blood. It has reached number 2 on the UK Singles Chart, topped the Scottish charts, and reached the
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Bastille – Send Them Off!
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“Send Them Off” is the third single from Bastille’s sophomore album, Wild World. The band first revealed the song in New York City on December 1, 2015 during a live show at the
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Bastille – Fake It
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“Fake It” is the second single and twelfth track from Bastille’s second album, Wild World. The song first premiered on Beats 1 on July 27th, 2016 and was later released on Apple
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Bastille – Joy
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Set at 8:34 AM, the song is representative of a morning when you wake up on the kitchen floor, following the events of the night out portrayed in the rest of the songs on the album
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Bastille – Doom Days
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“Doom Days” is the second single released ahead of Bastille’s third album of the same name. The song primarily features two long verses consisting of a string of continuous
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Bastille – Bad Blood
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“Bad Blood” is a song by British band Bastille and the second single from their debut studio album of the same name. It was released as a single in the United Kingdom on 19 August
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Bastille – The Currents
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“The Currents” focuses on the hurtful, bigoted opinions held by some people and how it can be damaging to be exposed to such shocking points of view.
In an interview with DIY
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Bastille – Flaws
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“Flaws” is the third single by British band Bastille, from their debut studio album Bad Blood. It was their first commercial success. The single featured a B-side, Durban Skies.
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Bastille – Laura Palmer
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“Laura Palmer” is the fifth single released from Bastille’s 2013 album, Bad Blood. It also appears on the album as the eleventh track. The song’s title comes from the ABC
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Bastille – Oblivion
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[Verse 1] / When you fall asleep with your head upon my shoulder / When you're in my arms but you've gone somewhere deeper / [Pre-Chorus] / Are you going to age with grace? / Are
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Bastille – Icarus
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Backed by low vocalizations and upbeat percussion that assist its ancient callback, “Icarus” is a reference to the Greek myth of Icarus, about a young boy who tried to escape with
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Bastille – Overjoyed
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“Overjoyed” was the first single released from Bad Blood, and Bastille’s overall debut single. It was released on 27 April 2012. The single wasn’t promoted much and did not chart
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Bastille – survivin'
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[Verse 1] / Had a great seven-year, white-knuckle ride / Killin' time, flyin' high, as I held on tight / To you, to you / Did I blow my mind on the wild side? / Singin' "Hallelujah
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Bastille – Tuning Out...
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“Tuning Out…” is a cover of “O Holy Night” by indie-pop band Bastille which adds a sample of their own song, “Skulls.”
The alteration of a few words within “O Holy Night” seem
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Bastille – Haunt (Demo)
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[Intro] / Oh / Oh / Oh, oh / Oh / [Verse 1] / We'll make our agreements about when to meet / And I'll leave you in the doorway / The cold evening aches as it leaves in its wake
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Bastille – Blame
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Dan Smith described the narrative of “Blame” as “a super simple snapshot of two gang members”. This is reflected in the song’s violent imagery and background instrumentation that
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Bastille – Glory
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Glory was revealed during the #WildWorldReveal campaign as the fifth track on Bastille’s sophomore album, Wild World. As of April 2017, Glory is to be the third single from Wild
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Bastille – Plug In...
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[Intro] / Tell me we'll be all right / Say that we'll be fine / [Verse 1] / Plug me right in, jump through the screen / Final frontier, I can be anything / Maddening scenes
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Lost Frequencies & Bastille – Head Down
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[Intro] / (Oh) / [Verse 1] / I was burning every candle every hour of the night / Kept on searching high and low here in the dark / I was hoping to escape and make a change here in
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Bastille (Ft. Angel Haze, Dan Priddy & F*U*G*Z) – Weapon
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A song, first, only performed at live shows by Bastille and Angel Haze. They decided to record it in the studio as well as change the sound and add artists such as Braque and F*U*G
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Bastille – (I Just) Died In Your Arms
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[Verse 1] / I keep on looking for something I can't get / Broken hearts lie all around me, and I don't see an easy way to get out of this / Her diary sits on the bedside table
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Bastille – Sleepsong
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“Sleepsong” can be found on Bastille’s albums Overjoyed and All This Bad Blood.
“Sleepsong” talks about the extent some people will go to when feeling alone. In this case, someone
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Bastille – Bad Decisions
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Taking place at 12:48 am, just 33 minutes after “Quarter Past Midnight,” “Bad Decisions” begins to delve into the events of the night as the story pushes forward. According to an
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Bastille – Laughter Lines
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This song is about a very dear friendship or relationship that has to split up for some reason (perhaps due to growing up and growing apart). The pair focus not on the pain of
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Bastille – Things We Lost in the Fire
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“Things We Lost in the Fire” is the first song that Dan Smith wrote for Bastille as he revealed to Sophie Eggleton. In MetroLyrics’s song explanation series, Dan explains what the
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Bastille – 4AM
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Thirty-two minutes after the party anthem of “Nocturnal Creatures” comes the crash at “4AM.” The party is quickly beginning to die down and people are either going home or going to
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Bastille – Million Pieces
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Following the ballad-like performance of “Divide” comes “Million Pieces.” The song is Bastille’s first foray into EDM on a major record. Describing the musical aspects of the song
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Bastille – The Anchor
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“The Anchor” is the 19th track from Bastille’s second album Wild World.
Dan chose the song to close out the deluxe record on a lighter note.
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Bastille – Skulls
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“Skulls” describes a couple sticking together after death – spending burial, decay, and the afterlife with each other. It relies heavily on drums and synthesizers to give it a
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Bastille – The Draw
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[Verse 1] / (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) / (Hoo-ooh, hoo-ooh, hoo-ooh-ooh) / In my left hand, there is the familiar / In my right hand, there's the great unknown / I can see
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Seeb & Bastille – Grip
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Information about “Grip” leaked online when the Danish website of the Universal Music Group included the song’s detail in Seeb’s discography. The song was also found on Shazam.
An
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Bastille – These Streets
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In this upbeat and ethereal track, Dan Smith reflects on memorable streets from his past, painting unbreakable connections between the physical place and the memories he formed
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Bastille – Give Me the Future
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[Verse 1] / I got two open eyes, now I'm on the other side / Happy in my second life, headset on / I could be anything, let me be your Midas king / Think of all the joy I'd bring
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Bastille – World Gone Mad
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Like “The Currents” and “Warmth”, “World Gone Mad” gives Dan’s perspective on the world’s volatile political climate. Moreover, “World Gone Mad” addresses the tragic events since
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Bastille (Ft. Ella Eyre) – No Angels
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[Verse 1: Dan Smith] / A scrub is a guy who thinks he's fly / And is also known as a buster / Always talkin' about what he wants / And just sits on his broke arse, so / [Pre-Chorus
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Bastille – Those Nights
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In a departure from the high energy of “Another Place”, taking place at 4:52 AM, “Those Nights” slows things down as the story of Doom Days continues. The time is now 5:46 AM and
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Bastille – Warmth
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In an interview with DIY Magazine, Dan explains that “the human condition” is a theme on their sophomore album, Wild World, for instance on the song “Warmth”:
Conceptually, the
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Bastille – Poet
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“Poet” tells the story of how Dan Smith turned his lover into a poem to be read by future “tongues that are not born” in an effort to immortalise her. His poem is so realistic and
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Bastille – No Bad Days
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Songwriter Dan Smith has revealed in a comment on his Instagram the inspiration for “No Bad Days”:
This song is about my amazing aunt who died in 2019.
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Bastille – Thelma + Louise
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The title of the song is based of off the 1991 film “Thelma & Louise” directed by Ridley Scott. The song refers to the film throughout it.
On August 18th, Bastille’s lead singer
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Bastille – Shame
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“Shame” is the 18th track on The Complete Edition of Bastille’s second album Wild World.
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Bastille – Another Place
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[Verse 1] / I am bound to you with a tie that we cannot break / With a night that we can't replace / I'm lost but found with you in a bed that we'll never make / It's a feeling we
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Bastille (Ft. Erika Footman & Senator Bernie Sanders) – Sweet Pompeii
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A mashup of Bastille’s own Pompeii and Calvin Harris' Sweet Nothing, which appeared on Other People’s Heartache, Pt. II.
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