Bastile Pompeii Lyrics

I was left to my own dev-I-I-ces

Many days fell away with nothing to show

And the walls kept tumbling down This could suggest that even
In the city that we love though this disaster
Gray clouds roll over the hills happened, people got through
Bringing darkness from above
it as if nothing changed, they
pulled through it all. The part
But if you close your eyes,
further down implies that
Does it almost feel like
because disasters happen
Nothing changed at all?
And if you close your eyes,
people know how to deal with
Does it almost feel like it and help others get through
You've been here before? it.
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 settled around us No way of getting out, people
that have died with be settled
And the walls kept tumbling down with dust soon enough/ people
In the city that we love were covered from the
Gray clouds roll over the hills volcano.
Bringing darkness from above

But if you close your eyes, ‘Grey clouds roll over the hills,
Does it almost feel like bringing darkness from above’
Nothing changed at all? this suggests that the disaster
And if you close your eyes, didn’t just go away it bought
Does it almost feel like more disasters with it. No
You've been here before? homes/people dying covered
How am I gonna be an optimist about this? up. However could also imply
How am I gonna be an optimist about this? that not even God could help
Pompeii. Or people blame
Eheu aul aul [x4] God.

Oh where do we begin?
The rubble or our sins?
Oh oh where do we begin?
The rubble or our sins?
People didn’t know where to
start, blamed their sins for the
And the walls kept tumbling down (oh where do we begin?)
volcano erupting and didn’t
In the city that we love (the rubble or our sins?)
Gray clouds roll over the hills (oh where do we begin?)
know what to fix first. Their
Bringing darkness from above (the rubble or our sins?) sins or removing the rubble in
Pompeii and helping people.
But if you close your eyes,