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A song about how things easily changes and how people don't seem to notice. Sorrowful thoughtful empathetic. Title: Pompeii
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Pompeii
(oh-oh, oh)
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)
Little things shift underfoot, like a slow insistence
The world leans a degree and we practice indifference
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
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)
Little things become a map of what we don't attend
Every small refusal is the start of something's end
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
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
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
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
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