Bastille - Pompeii

[loretta]

Bastille lead singer Daniel Smith describes the song as a conversation between two of the inhabitants of the city of Pompeii as the city is destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F90Cw4l-8NY

Sometimes, life just feels like this.

Here are the lyrics.

I was left to my own devices
Many days fell away with nothing to show

And the walls kept tumbling down
In the city that we love
Great clouds roll over the hills
Bringing darkness from above

But if you close your eyes,
Does it almost feel like
Nothing changed at all?
And if you close your eyes,
Does it almost feel like
You've been here before?
How am I gonna be an optimist about this?
How am I gonna be an optimist about this?

We were caught up and lost in all of our vices
In your pose as the dust settles around us

And the walls kept tumbling down
In the city that we love
Great clouds roll over the hills
Bringing darkness from above

But if you close your eyes,
Does it almost feel like
Nothing changed at all?
And if you close your eyes,
Does it almost feel like
You've been here before?
How am I gonna be an optimist about this?
How am I gonna be an optimist about this?

Oh where do we begin?
The rubble or our sins?
Oh where do we begin?
The rubble or our sins?

And the walls kept tumbling down
In the city that we love
Great clouds roll over the hills
Bringing darkness from above

But if you close your eyes,
Does it almost feel like
Nothing changed at all?
And if you close your eyes,
Does it almost feel like
You've been here before?
How am I gonna be an optimist about this?
How am I gonna be an optimist about this?

If you close your eyes, does it almost feel like nothing changed at all?

[lilitalienboi16]

Good song, I especially like how this writer went beyond the everyday typical writings of sex, drugs, and money we find so often in music, and struck up a history lesson for us all through the perspective of the inhabitants in their final moments. I think it shows creativity and I appreciate it.

[Rhys 🕊]

Nice song and agree with the comments by Alex too

Rhys