Hey my friends it's Matt. This is the Tim in a Bible hour podcast. Have you heard the song

Pompeii by Bastille? I feel like we've maybe

talked about this before, but we've been doing this for a long time, so we've probably talked about just about

everything before. It's a really good song, so I don't mind bringing it up again if we have talked

about it before.

Obviously it's about the city that got destroyed in 79 AD in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius

and there are various interpretations as to what exactly the lyrics mean but they seem pretty specific to the events of Pompeii.

It's definitely meant to be a metaphor as somebody is reflecting on their life or maybe some people think reflecting on

their relationships now but the destruction and the ruin of Pompeii is

right there let me read you a couple of the lyrics here real quick 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 going to be an optimist about this how am I going to be an

optimist about this and he goes on we were caught up and lost in all of our vices

in your pose as the dust settles around us that might be in repose I think that's

actually what the lyric is supposed to be there.

And there's a chorus and stuff in another bridge here that's pretty cool. It says, oh where do we begin the rubble or our sins?

Oh, where do we begin the rubble or our sins?

And like I said a second ago, lots of people read this as somebody looking at their life

and be like, ah, why isn't more coming to this?

Other people read it as a relationship thing.

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