Bastille - Doom Days Album Lyrics

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Bad Decisions

Love me, leave me
Rhythm of the evening, chasing a good time
London's burning
If the world is ending, let's stay up all night

Do you remember what you said to me?
'Cause we lost track of time
Yeah, we lost track of time
You always let me down so tenderly
So live fast and die young and stay forever numb

You said that maybe this is where it ends
Take a bow for the bad decisions that we made
Bad decisions that we made
And if we're going down in flames
Take a bow for the bad decisions that we made
Bad decisions that we made

So we'll make the same mistakes
'Til the morning breaks
So we'll make the same mistakes
'Til the morning breaks

I'm here feeling lower than the sterling
How'd you look so good?
Groundhog evening, dancing on the ceiling
Kubrick's Hollywood

Do you remember what you said to me?
'Cause we lost track of time
Yeah, we lost track of time

You said that maybe this is where it ends
Take a bow for the bad decisions that we made
Bad decisions that we made
And if we're going down in flames
Take a bow for the bad decisions that we made
Bad decisions that we made

So we'll make the same mistakes
'Till the morning breaks
So we'll make the same mistakes
'Till the morning breaks

Now we find ourselves lying right here
Always find ourselves lying right here
Can we make the same mistakes (Ooh)
'Til the morning breaks
Can we make the same mistakes
'Til the morning breaks

You said that maybe this is where it ends
(Maybe this is where it ends)
Take a bow for the bad decisions that we made
Bad decisions that we made
And if we're going down in flames
Take a bow for the bad decisions that we made
Bad decisions that we made

So we'll make the same mistakes
'Til the morning breaks (Ooh)
So we'll make the same mistakes
'Til the morning breaks

Do you remember what you said to me?
'Cause we lost track of time
Yeah, we lost track of time

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The Waves

Staring down the barrel of a hundred tons
It might be getting older, but the night's still young
We never, never give up on the lost boy life
So here we are, escaping from the world outside

Oh, what would your mother say if she could see what we're doing now?
Oh, what would your mother say if she could hear what we talk about?

The waves are crashing down on you and me again, again, again
The waves are crashing down on you and me
I'll see you on the other side
Get carried, get carried away, oh-oh-oh-oh
Caught up in, caught up in the waves

Suddenly we're fallin' through the twilight zone
Watch the party playing out in slow motion
So tie a ribbon 'round my arm and throw me in
Is it an apocalypse or nihilism on your lips?
We sink or swim

Oh, what would your mother say if she could see what we're doing now?
Oh, what would your mother say if she could hear what we talk about?

The waves are crashing down on you and me again, again, again
The waves are crashing down on you and me
I'll see you on the other side
Get carried, get carried away, oh-oh-oh-oh
Caught up in, caught up in the waves

The air hit me on the way out
Did it make me more sober or make me more drunk?
I couldn't quite remember the vision of you and of me
The air hit me on the way out
Did it make me more sober or make me more drunk?
I couldn't quite remember the vision of you and me

The waves are crashing down on you and me again, again, again
The waves are crashing down on you and me
I'll see you on the other side
Get carried, get carried away, oh-oh-oh-oh
Caught up in, caught up in the waves

They're crashing down, they're crashing down
They're crashing down on you and me
I'll see you on the other side

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Divide

Roll the window down, let the air blow 'round you
A sadness in the breeze as the night divides us

In these darker days, I push the limit to the love you offer
There's a riot in my head, demanding we do this forever

Why would we divide when we could come together?
Just bodies that collide, lost and found each other
So don't, don't leave me alone
Don't leave me alone, don't leave me alone
Why would we divide when we could come together?

Looking back around, glamorize the chaos
Don't let summer nights destroy everything before us

In these darker days, I push the limits to the love you offer
There's a riot in my head, demanding we do this forever

Why would we divide when we could come together?
Just bodies that collide, lost and found each other
So don't, don't leave me alone
Don't leave me alone, don't leave me alone
Why would we divide when we could come together?

So roll the window down, won't let you go like this
Go like this, go like this
Roll the window down, won't let you go like this
Go like this, go like this

Why would we divide when we could come together?
Are we just bodies that collide, lost and found each other
So don't, don't leave me alone
Don't leave me alone, don't leave me alone
Why would we divide when we could come together?

Roll the window down, won't let you go like this
Go like this, go like this
Roll the window down, won't let you go like this
Go like this, go like this

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Million Pieces

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

The echoes of that news ring loud
(The echoes, the echoes)
No sound can ever drown it out
(The echoes)

It breaks my heart
Beaks 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 'til 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

We're too far gone
Nothing I say will mean anything
Just drink, f*ck, dance
Right through disaster
I don't want to talk about it now

The echoes of that news ring loud
(The echoes, the echoes)
No music ever drowns it out
(The echoes)

It breaks my heart
Beaks 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 'til 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

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

It breaks my heart
It beaks 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 'til 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
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

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Doom Days

When I watch the world burn
All I think about is you
When I watch the world burn
All I think about is you

There must be something in the Kool-Aid
Cruising through the doom days
God knows what is real and what is fake
Last couple years have been a mad trip
But how'd y'all look so perfect?
You must have some portraits in the attic

We'll stay offline so no one gets hurt
Hiding from the real world
Just don't read the comments ever, ever
We f*cked this house up like the planet
We were running riot
Crazy that some people still deny it

Think I'm addicted to my phone
My scrolling horror show
I'm live-streaming the final days of Rome
One tab along, it's pornographic
Everybody's at it
No surprise we're so easily bored

Let's pick the truth that we believe in
Like a bad religion
Tell me all your original sins
So many questionable choices
We love the sound that our voice makes
Man, this echo chamber's getting loud

We're gonna choose the blue pill
We're gonna close the curtains
We're gonna rabbit hole down, third act love now
She's gonna flip some tables
I'm gonna move this tale on
We're gonna rabbit hole down, third act love now

We'll be the proud remainers
Here 'til the morning breaks us
We run away from real life, thoughts tonight
We're gonna Peter Pan out
Fade to the close-up, arms 'round
We're gonna stay naive tonight, night, night

When I watch the world burn
All I think about is you
When I watch the world burn
All I think about is you

You, you, you, you
All I think about is you
So I put my phone down
Fall into the night with you

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Nocturnal Creatures

We're nocturnal, we're nocturnal
We're nocturnal, we're nocturnal
We're nocturnal, we're nocturnal
We're noc-, we're noc-, we're nocturnal

You put your arms around me
Partners in crime in the dead of night
It's our weekend religion
A different chord but the same refrain

We've only got ourselves to blame
Again and again and again
Again and again and again
Let every night play out the same
'Cause I wouldn't, I wouldn't change a thing

We're nocturnal creatures, we own the night
And we don't need a reason if we want to lose our minds
We're nocturnal creatures, drawn to the flame
And the morning doesn't reach us
Well, not until we want it to, want it to

We're nocturnal, we're nocturnal
We're nocturnal, we're nocturnal
We're nocturnal, we're nocturnal
We're noc-, we're noc-, we're nocturnal

No moon, no stars above us
The orange sky says the night's alive
This time with you's elastic
We stretch these hours as far as we can make them go

We've only got ourselves to blame
Again and again and again
Again and again and again
Let every night play out the same
'Cause I wouldn't, I wouldn't change a thing

We're nocturnal creatures, we own the night
And we don't need a reason if we want to lose our minds
We're nocturnal creatures, drawn to the flame
And the morning doesn't reach us
Well, not until we want it to, want it to

Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh

We're nocturnal creatures, we own the night
And we don't need a reason if we want to lose our minds
We're nocturnal creatures, drawn to the flame
And the morning doesn't reach us
Well, not until we want it to, want it to

Oh, oh
We're nocturnal, we're nocturnal
We're nocturnal, we're nocturnal
Oh, oh
We're nocturnal, we're nocturnal
Oh, oh
We're noc-, we're noc-, we're nocturnal
We're nocturnal, we're nocturnal
We're nocturnal, we're nocturnal
Oh, oh
We're nocturnal, we're nocturnal
We're noc-, we're noc-, we're nocturnal

We received the freedom but we were completely unaware what to do with this freedom
It felt like the hungry people received the foods and we just ate everything

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4AM

Four in the morning, we find ourselves here
Best of us passed out, I don't know who's where
I got all my old friends and new friends I've met once before
In a blanket of smoke as we sink through the floor

Here, here, my family
You are my familia, you are my familia, ah-ah
Here, here, my friends and me
You are my familia, ah-ah

Oh, there is nowhere I would rather be
Never felt more comfortable, could never want for more when you're near
Oh, there is nowhere I would rather be, oh-oh
Never felt more comfortable, could never want for more when you're near

Ooh
Ooh, ah

Time skips, balloon hits, I'm losing my mind
Tuesday'll be doom day, this got out of hand

Here, here, my family
You are my familia, you are my familia, ah-ah
Here, here, my friends and me
You are my familia, ah-ah

Oh, there is nowhere I would rather be
Never felt more comfortable, could never want for more when you're near
No, there is nowhere I would rather be, oh-oh
Never felt more comfortable, could never want for more when you're near

Ooh
Ooh, ah

I don't care if we're talking 'bout the same things
I don't care if we're stuck in the familiar
I don't care if we're going round in circles
Again, again, again

Here, here, my family
(A walking disaster)
You are my familia, you are my familia, ah-ah
(Not much, but all I would ask for)
Here, here, my friends and me
(A walking disaster)
You are my familia
(Not much, but all I would ask for)

Oh, there is nowhere I would rather be
Never felt more comfortable, could never want for more when you're near
Oh, there is nowhere I would rather be
I never felt more comfortable, could never want for more when you're near

Ooh, ah
Ooh, ah

I can't remember, I can't remember
I can't remember, I can't remember
I can't remember, I can't remember
Help me piece it all together darlin'

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Another Place

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 always chase

I could write a book about the things that you said to me on the pillow
And the way you think, and how you make me feel
You can feel my mind and move my body with the fiction, fantasies
Just call this what it is, we don't pretend it's real

So don't make promises to me that you're gonna break
We only ever wanted one thing from this
Don't paint wonderful lies on me that wash away
We only ever wanted one thing from this
Oh, in another place
In another time, what could we have been?
Oh, in another place
In another time, what could we have been?

Mmm, in another time
And in another place

So lie to me tonight and pretend 'til the morning light
And imagine that you are mine
'Cause when the sun will rise with the truth coming out your eyes
We'll be good in another life

I could write a book about the things that you said to me on the pillow
And the way you think, and how you make me feel
You can feel my mind and move my body with the fiction, fantasies
Just call this what it is, we don't pretend it's real

So don't make promises to me that you're gonna break
We only ever wanted one thing from this
Don't paint wonderful lies on me that wash away
We only ever wanted one thing from this
Oh, in another place
In another time, what could we have been?
Oh, in another place
In another time, what could we have been?

Feels like something's special but it never felt like love
Wonder what we could be living in another life
Catch us in the mirror and it looks a lot like love
Then you stop me talking as you kiss me from above

So don't make promises to me that you're gonna break
We only ever wanted one thing from this
Don't paint wonderful lies on me that wash away
We only ever wanted one thing from this
Oh, in another place
In another time, what could we have been?
Oh, in another place
In another time, what could we have been?

Oh, yeah
In another time
And in another place

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Those Nights

I can feel your eyes in the back of my head
Burning, burning, burning
Floating through the room as the hairs on my arms are
Rising, rising, rising
I'm chemically drawn closer to you
Eyes wide, eyes wide open
Will you be my future or just an escape?
Love me, love me, love me

You'll never get to heaven on a night like this

Those nights when your friends are gone
When you're holding on for someone to leave with
Those nights when you crave someone
To be there at dawn, to wake with, 'cause aren't we all just
Looking for a little bit of hope these days?
Looking for somebody you can wake up with?
Looking for a little bit of hope these days?
We are, we are

Pulling at my t-shirt, your hands everywhere
Rising, rising, rising
As you trip and fall, dragging me up the stairs
What's your, what's your name, now?

You try to get to heaven on a night like this
But you, you never get to heaven on a night like this

Those nights when your friends are gone
When you're holding on for someone to leave with
Those nights when you crave someone
To be there at dawn, to wake with, 'cause aren't we all just
Looking for a little bit of hope these days?
Looking for somebody you can wake up with?
Looking for a little bit of hope these days?
We are, we are

The lights, the lights, the lights
They cut a path across the room
The lights, the lights, the lights
A blinding look from me to you
And I'll be your rabbit in the headlights
We'll never get to heaven
I'll be your rabbit in the headlights
We'll never get to heaven

Those nights when your friends are gone
When you're holding on for someone to leave with
Those nights when you crave someone
To be there at dawn, to wake with, 'cause aren't we all just
Looking for a little bit of hope these days?
Looking for somebody you can wake up with?
Looking for a little bit of hope these days?
We are, we are

Yeah, yeah
From my brain

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Joy

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa

Thought I'd never be waking on the kitchen floor
But here I lie, not the first time
Now my morning has broken, and it brings the fear
My mind's falling, falling

Then I feel my pulse quickening
But regrets can't change anything
Yeah, I feel my pulse quickening
When your name lights up the screen

Oh joy, when you call me
I was giving up, oh, I was giving in
Joy, set my mind free
I was giving up, oh, I was giving in

How'd you always know when I'm down?
How'd you always know when I'm down?

Take a walk through the wreckage, clearing out my head
I hear your eyes roll right down the phone
I'm your walking disaster, keep on dragging me
From self-pity, poor me

Then I feel my pulse quickening
But I wouldn't change a thing

Oh joy, when you call me
I was giving up, oh, I was giving in
Joy, set my mind free
I was giving up, oh, I was giving in

How'd you always know when I'm down?
How'd you always know when I'm down?

As the night dissolves into this final frame
You're a sweet relief, you saved me from my brain
From my brain, from my brain, from my brain (brain, brain, brain, brain)
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa (brain, brain, brain, brain)

Oh joy, when you call me
I was giving up, oh, I was giving in
Joy, set my mind free
I was giving up, oh, I was giving in

How'd you always know when I'm down?
How'd you always know when I'm down?

I feel joy when you call me
I feel joy when you call me (I-I-I feel joy)
I feel joy when you call me
I feel joy when you call me
How'd you always know when I'm down?
How'd you always know when I'm down?

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When I Watch The World Burn All I Think About Is You

When I watch the world burn
All I think about is you
When I watch the world burn
All I think about is you

Well it f*cked me up when I fell for you
I shouldn't have let me fall for you
The world is ending on the news
But here in my head I'm drunk on you
My love, my love, unrequited
My love, my love, undecided

When I watch the world burn
All I think about is you
When I watch the world burn
All I think about is you
Ohhh
All I think about is you
The world
All I think about is you

Well it's Forrest Gump inside the news
My head's a cloud, my ego bruised
And drunken dreams, am I deluded?
I'm paranoid, hung up on you
No love, my love
She denies me
My love, my love
Set my mind free

When I watch the world burn
All I think about is you
When I watch the world burn
All I think about is you
Ohhh
All I think about is you
The world
All I think about is you

Oh lay me down in ash again
To watch the world crumble
Oh lay me down in ash again
And watch the world crumble

Ohhh
When I watch the world burn
All I think about is you
When I watch the world burn
All I think about is you
Ohhh
All I think about is you
The world
All I think about is you

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Easy Days

All the things we tell ourselves
To feel a little better, better
All the lies we tell ourselves
When we don't have an answer
Don't let me lie down
On the world, the world around us
Don't let me get down
When we're dancing in the dark

'Cause I don't want to fall back again
Back into the easy days
Everything was so simple then
Little fires burned away
Oh won't you help me start a fire?
Come on won't you help me start a fire?
'Cause I don't want to fall back again
Back into the easy days

All the things we tell ourselves
To feel a little better, better
All the lies we tell ourselves
When we don't have an answer
Don't let me lie down
On the world, the world around us
Don't let me get down
When we're dancing in the dark

'Cause I don't want to fall back again
Back into the easy days
Everything was so simple then
Little fires burned away
Oh won't you help me start a fire?
Come on won't you help me start a fire?
'Cause I don't want to fall back again
Back into the easy days

Oh, but you're a fire in the past
Overlooking trouble gone bad
Sugarcoat, nostalgic, and loss
And why'd you want to be that guy?

'Cause I don't want to fall back again
Back into the easy days
Everything was so simple then
Little fires burned away
Oh won't you help me start a fire?
Come on won't you help me start a fire?
'Cause I don't want to fall back again
Back into the easy days

'Cause I don't wanna fall back again
Back into the easy days