Half Life – Pompeii (79 CE) Lyrics

Pompeii (79 CE) Lyrics

Half Life

Caught in a black pit
That no one else should know
Friends are escaping
But I’m moving slow
Turning away
From the mountain

Weaving through streets
Like I’m weaving my wool
Julia keeps watch in the atrium

(brother)
Young brother
Serving wine
To our master
Calls him over
Pretty boy but the boy is growing older

I see myself on the walls
My brother bronze in the halls

Flavian curls round my fingertips
Julia reclines on the bed

(main character)
Thank you my darling
She tells me with delight
Leaves for the feast
As she kisses me goodnight

I see myself on the walls
My brother bronze in the halls

Captive from Greece
He too little to know
The Faun is the face
He first recalls

(brother)
The brothel
On the corner
Where he answers
Undercover
Gets a shave
Growing up and out of age

I see myself on the walls
My brother bronze in the halls

Mosaic pieces depicting a war
Macedon’s king conquers all

(main character)
Feast on defeat
Mocking faces on repeat
Feeling my fate
On the ground beneath my
Feet

I see myself on the walls
My brother bronze in the halls

Julia
Understand
Take my hand
With a chance
She plans to set us
Free
Liberti

Caught in a black pit
That no one else should know
Friends are escaping
But I’m moving slow
Turning away
From the mountain