Bastille - Pompeii Lyrics

Bastille Lyrics

"Pompeii"

Eheu aul aul
Eheu aul aul
Eheu aul aul
Eheu aul aul
Eheu aul aul
Eheu aul aul
Eheu aul aul
Eheu aul aul

I was left to my own devi-i-i-i-ces
Many days fell away with nothing to show

And the walls kept tumbling down
In the city that we love
Gray 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 settled around us

And the walls kept tumbling down
In the city that we love
Gray 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?

Eheu aul aul
Eheu aul aul
Eheu aul aul
Eheu aul aul

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

And the walls kept tumbling down (oh where do we begin?)
In the city that we love (the rubble or our sins?)
Gray clouds roll over the hills (oh where do we begin?)
Bringing darkness from above (the rubble or our sins?)

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?

Eheu aul aul
Eheu aul aul
Eheu aul aul
Eheu aul aul
Eheu aul aul
Eheu aul aul
Eheu aul aul
Eheu aul aul

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Writer(s): Daniel Smith

Dan Smith explained what this song is about in an interview with NME, "It's really about what happened in Pompeii and the city. Famously, the city was sort of dug up and people who were wiped out by the volcano were kind of discovered – or the negative space of their body was discovered – in the poses in which they died, and I just thought that was such an interesting image. And a really happy one as well. So the song is sort of imagining a conversation between two of those people."

The music video for "Pompeii" was published on the 20th of January 2013. It was filmed in Los Angeles and Palm Springs, California.