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i listen to "pompeii" as it burns itself to pieces on the radio and rises like a phoenix (with no beginning) from the ashes when i repeat the lyrics to myself over and over again "where do we begin the rubble or our sins?" where did i (the phoenix) begin in the rubble or my sins? are we taken from dust and returned to dust ("how am i gonna be an optimist about this?") or are we taken from the ashes and redeemed am i the city everybody loved whose "walls kept tumbling down" if i was "left to my own devices" would i even begin? or would i "close my eyes" "bringing darkness from above" but if a "great cloud rolled over the hill" could my sins be forgiven could my sins be forgiven yet?
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Sep 7, 2014
Sep 7, 2014 at 1:40 AM UTC
Bastille called me to repentance
i listen to "pompeii" as it burns itself to pieces on the radio and rises like a phoenix (with no beginning) from the ashes when i repeat the lyrics to myself over and over again "where do we begin the rubble or our sins?" where did i (the phoenix) begin in the rubble or my sins? are we taken from dust and returned to dust ("how am i gonna be an optimist about this?") or are we taken from the ashes and redeemed am i the city everybody loved whose "walls kept tumbling down" if i was "left to my own devices" would i even begin? or would i "close my eyes" "bringing darkness from above" but if a "great cloud rolled over the hill" could my sins be forgiven could my sins be forgiven yet?
kate-lyn
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Sep 7, 2014
Sep 7, 2014 at 1:40 AM UTC
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