But if you close your eyes

Pompeii by Pompeii. P Ma Chiato. Eh-eh-o eh-o 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?

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But if you close your eyes

Lyrics submitted by psychedelicglee , edited by noelsguitar , henrymo , thatismahogony , Ashleeeee , amrj , tuckerka , marlize , Jbail I'm in agreement with llscience. Pompeii is used as a metaphor to describe somebody standing still, looking out as their life falls apart and swallows them whole. It seems to me that the narrator is somebody who has big dreams but becomes content working a regular job and living a regular life. One day they stop and look out at their life realizing that it's not what they had always dreamed about. They've been stuck in this monotonous, never-changing life that doesn't live up to what they'd hoped. And now in this realization, they start to lose that optimism that kept them going before of being something more. Quite genius really. My interpretation is similar, but what I took from it was someone who couldn't get out of this downward spiral that they were in. The song mentions sins and vices a lot. And the song is telling the listener that you see your world collapsing around you, but if you close your eyes, this has been happening your whole life. Remember skipping your first class? Remember skipping class almost every other day?

How Well Do You Sleep? After surgery, the patient reportedly experienced hallucinations whenever he closed his eyes over a four-hour period.

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 Grey 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 Grey clouds roll over the hills Bringing darkness from above. Oh where do we begin? The rubble or our sins?

Lyrics submitted by psychedelicglee , edited by noelsguitar , henrymo , thatismahogony , Ashleeeee , amrj , tuckerka , marlize , Jbail I'm in agreement with llscience. Pompeii is used as a metaphor to describe somebody standing still, looking out as their life falls apart and swallows them whole. It seems to me that the narrator is somebody who has big dreams but becomes content working a regular job and living a regular life. One day they stop and look out at their life realizing that it's not what they had always dreamed about. They've been stuck in this monotonous, never-changing life that doesn't live up to what they'd hoped. And now in this realization, they start to lose that optimism that kept them going before of being something more. Quite genius really. My interpretation is similar, but what I took from it was someone who couldn't get out of this downward spiral that they were in.

But if you close your eyes

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If it was meant on the level of humanity, I would expect the song to open with "We were left to our own devices". It says "I was left to my own devices", which, for me, makes it very personal: I fucked up again. Adult album alternative radio. Retrieved 13 June Was this helpful? StichATX on March 15, The most beautiful song and has so many levels. I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. How am I gonna be an optimist about this? Retrieved 6 September Rate These Lyrics. With over 26 million streams by June , "Pompeii" became the most streamed song of all time in the UK at that time [21] and has sold , copies there.

It is the fourth single from their debut studio album Bad Blood and was released on 11 January The song's title and lyrics refer to the Roman town of the same name that was destroyed and buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD The song has a tempo of

And it's just such a kind of dark powerful image, and it got me thinking about how boring it must have been emotionally after the event. Retrieved 15 February How am I gonna be an optimist about this? Vesuvius in 79 AD. Editar playlist Tem certeza que deseja excluir esta playlist? Archived from the original on 12 May This song poses a strong connection between an apocalyptic situation and daily life. GfK Entertainment charts. Very good interpretation. Estela Envio. Bendubz on March 10, To be sort of stuck in that same position for hundreds and hundreds of years.