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Ellie Goulding - Beating Heart
Ellie Goulding - Beating Heart


Ellie Goulding - Beating Heart Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Divergent
Released: 2014

Beating Heart Lyrics


I just made that piece in typical tease
With wounded lips and salted cheeks
And finally we stepped to leave to the departure lounge
This belief
And I don't know where I'm going
But I know it's gonna be a long time
And I'll be leaving in the morning
On the white wine bit to sunlight

Want to hear your Beating Heart tonight
Before that bleeding sun comes to life
I want to make the best of what is left hold tight
And hear my beating heart one last time
Before the light

And the canyon underneath the trees
Behind the dark sky he looked at me
I fell for you like autumn leaves
And never faded ever green
And I don't know where I'm going
But I know it's gonna be a long time
And I'll be leaving in the morning
On the white wine bit to sunlight

Want to hear your beating heart tonight
Before that bleeding sun comes to life
I want to make the best of what is left hold tight
And hear my beating heart one last time

I can't fake this town
Everything's changed
Eyes are leaving your side
It's hoping we collide
It's hoping we collide
It's hoping we collide

Want to hear your beating heart tonight
Before that bleeding sun comes to life
I want to make the best of what is left hold tight
And hear my beating heart one last time

Want to hear your beating heart tonight

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Publisher: DOWNTOWN MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, SONY ATV MUSIC PUB LLC
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Beating Heart
  • Ellie Goulding wrote this song specifically for the soundtrack of the movie Divergent. Goulding also lent three of her Halcyon tracks to the film as well as providing the "musical voice" for the film's lead character, Tris Prior.
  • Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Divergent director Neil Burger explained Goulding's new song: "In the last scene of the movie, Tris has just experienced multiple tragedies, even as she triumphs (for the moment) over her enemies," he said. "Ellie wrote 'Beating Heart' and we knew it'd be perfect for the end of the movie. Her lyrics almost merge with Tris' voice-over and her music lets the movie soar above the tragedy. The sadness is still there but so is the transcendence. It's a fantastic song."
  • Goulding explained the song's meaning to MTV News: "'Beating Heart' is about being away from someone or knowing that you're always going to have to be apart from someone that you really love," she said. "And it's painful, but it's hopeful because there's always a chance that they'll collide again like two people collide. Like the universe will bring them back together."

    "I think the song is basically that," she added. "Sort of relying on the fact that if you're meant to be drawn back together you will be."
  • British singer-songwriter Joe Janiak wrote the original version of this song on a banjo in 2012. It was inspired by dropping off his American girlfriend at London airport. Goulding then came across the tune and reworked some of the lyrics to make it about being away touring and not being able to spend enough time with someone.
  • Although Goulding doesn't specify the partner that the track is connected to, she admitted to Billboard magazine that it, "did remind me of someone, recently." She added: "It's just such a sad song, and so relevant to what I do — not being able to have a physical closeness with someone, because you're just never around."