American Pompeii

[Verse 1]

I try to imagine the best place I've been

Can I go back again?

Open my eyes, what was no longer exists

I can't go back again

I like to pretend that nothing has changed

And never went too far

But it started to lose me

Like a four-hour movie I'd already seen

[Bridge]

Holding onto my memory

Of what this used to be

Holding onto my memory of you

[Pre-Chorus]

Sometimes I tell myself

That things are okay

Another lie, but it makes me feel better

Never as old as I was today

I'm gonna breakdown, breakdown

[Chorus]

In American Pompeii

In American Pompeii

I break myself just to live this way

Never as old as I was today

American Pompeii

[Verse 2]

Look in my eyes and see how sick I feel

About what you've become

Filthy and twisted like you never existed

I know what you were

Your beauty forgotten

Under mountains of schism

I don't wanna climb

Giving up my memory

Of what this used to be

I'm giving up my memory of you

[Pre-Chorus]

Sometimes I tell myself

That things are okay

Another lie, but it makes me feel better

Never as old as I was today

I'm gonna breakdown, breakdown

[Chorus]

In American Pompeii

In American Pompeii

I break myself just to live this way

Never as old as I was today

American Pompeii

[Guitar Solos]

[Chorus]

In American Pompeii

In American Pompeii

I break myself just to live this way

Never as old as I was today

American Pompeii

[Verse 3]

Try to imagine the best place I've been

Can I go back again?

Open my eyes, what was no longer exists

I can't go back again

I'm giving up my memory

Of what this used to be

Giving up my memory of you