We Were Pompeii

Intro

Pompeii

(oh-oh, oh)

Verse

We left our cups on the table, sugar melting into time

You hummed a tune from last summer and called it still fine

Paint cracked like small secrets coming out through the wall

I said, "Do you feel the fault line?" You said, "No, not at all" (no, not at all)

Pre-chorus

Little things shift underfoot, like a slow insistence

The world leans a degree and we practice indifference

Chorus

We were Pompeii, we kept walking like the ground would wait

We were Pompeii, folding letters we never meant to save

We were Pompeii, smiling through the smoke and tiny breaks

We were Pompeii, (we were Pompeii) we didn't look up until it came

Verse

The clock hands learn new rhythms, a lamp forgets to glow

Neighbors trade short courtesies; they don't stop to know

Your jacket on the chair collects another thread of dust

I trace the map of how we moved from gentle to the just (to the just)

Pre-chorus

Little things become a map of what we don't attend

Every small refusal is the start of something's end

Chorus

We were Pompeii, we kept walking like the ground would wait

We were Pompeii, folding letters we never meant to save

We were Pompeii, humming low through all the tiny aches

We were Pompeii, (we were Pompeii) we didn't look up until it came

Bridge

I wish I could knock on doors and make the morning hear

Say: look at the hairline cracks and hold each other's fear

But mornings move so quickly when your mind is on repeat

And people pass like paper boats, they drift and then deplete

Oh-oh, oh-oh (oh-oh), uh-huh, yeah

I kept my hands open, you kept closing yours

I kept my maps and routes, you kept drawing new detours

Chorus

We were Pompeii, we kept walking like the ground would wait

We were Pompeii, folding letters we never meant to save

We were Pompeii, (we were Pompeii) we sang soft and then we frayed

We were Pompeii, we didn't look up until it came

Chorus

We were Pompeii, we kept walking like the ground would wait

We were Pompeii, folding letters we never meant to save

We were Pompeii, holding breaths for things that wouldn't stay

We were Pompeii, (we were Pompeii) we didn't look up — we turned away