Great clouds roll over the hills (oh where do we begin?)īringing darkness from above (the rubble or our sins?) In the city that we love (the rubble or our sins?) In your pose as the dust settled around usĪnd the walls kept tumbling down (oh where do we begin?) We were caught up and lost in all of our vices How am I gonna be an optimist about this? "Pompeii/ Waiting All Night" (with Rudimental, featuring Ella Eyre) – 5:47Ĭharts Cerifications Release history Regionĭigital download ("Pompeii/Waiting All Night").It was also featured in the British soap opera Hollyoaks and the TV series Reign in the third episode of the first season, "Kissed". The Kat Krazy remix is featured in the 2013 video game Need for Speed Rivals. The song is featured in the trailer for the 2014 animated film Mr. The arcade machine featured in the cover art is Marvel vs. Jasmine Thompson released a cover of the song on her debut album, "Bundle Of Tantrums" on 6 September 2013.Īnthem Lights released a cover of the song on their YouTube page on. The cast of Glee performed Pompeii for the series' season 5 finale, "The Untitled Rachel Berry Project". Peter Hollens and Kina Grannis made an a cappella cover. The story is an allegory for the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Pompeii.Ģ013, Los Angeles and Palm Springs, CaliforniaĪmerican progressive rock band Coheed and Cambria released a digital EP via their Facebook on 12 October featuring a cover of Pompeii by The Prize Fighter Inferno/Claudio Sanchez as well as one of their originals and two songs from the band's I the Mighty and Balance and Composure. Own eyes meanwhile have turned black as well. He climbs a mountain and looks out at the view, before turning around to reveal his He steals a car and drives into the desert to escape them, but the car breaks down and he soon realizes he's been infected as well. The video follows Bastille's frontman Dan Smith, as he wanders about an empty-looking Los Angeles, before realizing the few people around all have unnatural vacant black eyes. Video was first released onto YouTube on 20 January 2013 at a total length of three minutes and fifty-two seconds. It was directed by Jesse John Jenkins and produced by Tova Dann. The official music video was filmed in Los Angeles and Palm Springs, California. Dan Smith, explaining the meaning behind the lyrics of "Pompeii" And then it became a pop song, which you know is a bit weird.” “I guess it was, sort of, at a time when I was like a bit… I felt like my life was slightly in stasis and I was a little bit bored, so I guess I kind of equated that to being a frozen corpse and stuck in an ashy position under a burned down city for a long time. Lyrically, the song is about the Roman town of the same name, which met its fate with the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
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