Pompeii

    Singer: Bastille

    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?

    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

    Rain 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?

    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

    Rain clouds roll over the hills

    Bringing darkness from above

    ...

    Background

    “Pompeii” is a song by British alternative rock band Bastille, from their debut studio album “Bad Blood” (2013). Lyrically, the song is inspired by the Roman town known by the same name, which met its fate with the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

    Dan Smith’s lowing tone rolls over glowing synthesizers in one of the brightest synth-pop songs you’ve probably heard. From the frenetic pop of the chords, you know this earworm is going to stay in your mind. The song features in the trailer for the 2014 animated film “Mr. Peabody & Sherman.”