Alive es el primer single oficial de This is acting (2016), un álbum de Sia. Un tema en principio que iba a ser para Adele, quien aparece en los créditos de composición junto a Tobias Jesso, Jr., y la propia Sia. Con producción de Jesse Shatkin.
Lanzamiento en formato digital programado para el 25 de septiembre de 2015. Estreno el día anterior.
Con un videoclip dirigido por la propia artista junto a Daniel Askill, el mismo equipo creativo que realizó los vídeos de Chandelier, Elastic heart y Big girls cry. Protagonizado por la actriz/bailarina Mahiro Takano, fue rodado en Chiba, Japón. Estrenado el 5 de noviembre de 2015.
Alive remixes incluye versiones de la canción a cargo de Maya Jane Coles, AFSHeeN, Boehm, Plastic Plates, y Cahill.
Letra
I was born in a thunderstorm
I grew up overnight
I played alone
I'm playing on my own
I survived
Hey
I wanted everything I never had
Like the love that comes with life
I wore Ambien and I hated it
But I survived
I had wanted to go to a place where all the demons go
Where the wind don't change
And nothing in the ground can ever grow
No hope, just lies
And you're taught to cry in your pillow
But I'll survive
I'm still breathing [x4]
I'm alive [x4]
I found solace in the strangest place
Way in the back of my mind
I saw my life in a stranger's face
And it was mine
I had wanted to go to a place where all the demons go
Where the wind don't change
And nothing in the ground can ever grow
No hope, just lies
And you're taught to cry in your pillow
But I'll survive
I'm still breathing [x4]
I'm alive [x4]
You took it out, but I'm still breathing [x8]
I had made every single mistake
That you could ever possibly make
I took and I took and I took what you gave
But you never noticed that I was in pain
I knew what I wanted; I went in and got it
Did all the things that you said that I wouldn't
I told you that I would never be forgotten
I know that's part of you
And I'm still breathing
I'm still breathing
I'm still breathing
I'm still breathing
I'm alive (You took it out, but I'm still breathing)
(You took it out, but I'm still breathing)
I'm alive (You took it out, but I'm still breathing)
(You took it out, but I'm still breathing)
I'm alive (You took it out, but I'm still breathing)
(You took it out, but I'm still breathing)
I'm alive
I'm alive [x4]
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