Pompeii lyrics meaning

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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 According to Dan Smith, the song is written as a conversation between two victims of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius , stating in an interview, "I was reading a book that had some picture of the people who got caught up in the volcanic eruption. 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. To be sort of stuck in that same position for hundreds and hundreds of years.

Pompeii lyrics meaning

Watch as Bastille's Dan Smith explains the dark inspiration behind one of the band's biggest tracks. Bastille's Pompeii was the fourth single to come from their debut album, Bad Blood. Released on 11th January , the track reached number 2 on the UK Chart, making it the band's highest charting single to date alongside their The Rhythm of the Night re-imagining, Of The Night. It turns out, the song is aptly name as it was inspired by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Pompeii. Bastille's frontman Dan Smith revealed all to Radio X: " I was reading a book that had some picture of the people who got caught up in the volcanic eruption. To be sort of stuck in that same position for hundreds and hundreds of years. He added, jokingly: "Which you know is just your kind of average pop song topic! The Stone Roses. Foo Fighters. See more Bastille Latest. What is the meaning of Bastille's Pompeii? Bastille - Pompeii. Latest Videos.

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Pompeii is the old roman city that got covered by the leavings of a volcano, and no trace of the city was found for about years. Gotterdammerung means basically the beginning of the end. I think this is a recount of a couple just doing their thing in pompeii that day, and how the found out just how not-in-our-hands this life really is, but i also think it is a warning of sorts that the end for us is near gotterdammerung. The second verse assures us that lovers are going to be taken care of when the end comes. The image of "forever holding hands", the comfort we draw from our "bed", and "all our senses" being blessed. These are all soothing images that are tied to a brutal, firey end to existence. The music alone has such a powerful sad beauty to it that it makes it hard for me to realize what the message of this song is supposed to be. But I know it weighs a ton. They live in a place where there are volcanoes erupting and they are going to take the train up the mountain and jump into the flowing lava as a symbolic sacrifice of their restricted love.

Pompeii lyrics meaning

You may have to watch this video to understand the song a little better. Granted, on the surface, it's about the eruption of Pompeii in 79AD. However, when you watch the video, it takes on a whole different meaning. There's a certain lost feeling that Dan is trying to express in the video It's about how that loss is driving him insane within and is turning him dark inside, though he's doing everything he can to get back to that source of purity. The tempo of the video and the video itself takes on a more frenzied tempo as it keeps going up until the point where he's driving the car and it runs out of gas and he's noticing his eyes turning black giving into the darkness within himself. At the end, he realizes all is lost and that he cannot regain what was most precious and pure to him.

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Belgian singer Heleen Uytterhoeven recorded a cover version in Latin , the language spoken in Pompeii , the namesake of the song. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator? Retrieved 13 March But if you close your eyes Does it almost feel like Nothing changed at all? Even though he's always been an optimist, he's having a hard time being positive about his situation. The song has a tempo of Top Digital Download. Select 23 under "Semana". That's what makes this song so perfect for an audience. The band states that the chanting in the background is meant to capture this terrible magnitude, and the horror that the people of Pompeii would have felt during the eruption rocks falling from the sky, massive black clouds, and finally the fatal ash. So when we close our eyes, and stop to be distracted by the particularities of the current crisis situation, we realize that nothing changed at all in the underlying dynamics. Add Your Thoughts Comments.

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Thanks a lot leesaenz! Retrieved 21 February September Learn how and when to remove this template message. Digital download Audien remix. Nothing is really happening and he starts to wonder when it will really begin. Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 7 September Somewhere Sisyphus is laughing. One day they stop and look out at their life realizing that it's not what they had always dreamed about. Javascript must be enabled for the correct page display. Archived from the original on 8 August Drugs is not for everybody obviously. We've lost so many days with nothing to show, and now this city our environment, drug-fueled reality that we love has to be reckoned with, at which time the walls come tumbling down and we have to deal with the dark clouds of withdrawal and sobriety coming rolling in over the mountains. The line "if you close your eyes does it almost feel like you've been here before" explains this. Apparently, the lyrics are meant to represent a sort of "conversation" between two of these statues, and how they must have felt in their last moments of life.