Pompeii

[soft piano intro] [verse] Now the meadows shine with all the summer's flowers Now bees are buzzing, and birds are singing everywhere Now the wind brushes through the high treetops But in my garden, it's withered, dark, and cold [verse] Here it's scruffy and overgrown, ugly and tangled And just as hopelessly dull and gray as in my chest Out there, it smells of all the summer's scents There, it is summer, but in here, it is autumn [piano instrumental] [verse] I lived happily here with you and my cats A life in sin and without concern for salvation Reconciled with my character, for I have never Been able to say no to anything at all [verse] And never denied myself this or that And lived life until I was shattered one day It started with you cheating on me with another One you said was much finer than I [emotional instrumental] [verse] Our quarrel lasted weeks, the cries mixed with tears And I was thoroughly compared to your fine friend Until you confessed that he had left you with child Then it became deathly silent here in the garden again! [bridge build-up] From that moment, that man was doubly hated He had played with you, with us, for a little while And I, I felt as if I too was rejected I wanted to fight, and faced the defeat of my life [guitar instrumental] [bridge drop] I had the hammer ready under my jacket When he came out in a silk scarf and said: Good day Come in and sit for a while, so we can talk I just stammered, now I don't remember what [pause, fade] [drum] [verse] And I was offered cognac and cigars And couldn't bring myself to say no And when we parted, we were best friends and buddies And I took things you had forgotten home to you [build-up] [haunted verse] I walk around in my Pompeii, among ruins I tread around in the remnants of our life But you shall never give me jabs about money And never shall you be another's pastime [outro] No, to the old we shall bind beautiful wreaths And take our life and my cats as they are And despite all the lack of love and tattered edges I will love you for life, you I hold dear! [long fade out] [bridge drop] I had the hammer ready under my jacket When he came out in a silk scarf and said: Good day Come in and sit for a while, so we can talk I just stammered, now I don't remember what [pause] [drum] [verse] And I was offered cognac and cigars And couldn't bring myself to say no And when we parted, we were best friends and buddies And I took things you had forgotten home to you [build-up] [haunted verse] I walk around in my Pompeii, among ruins I tread around in the remnants of our life But you shall never give me jabs about money And never shall you be another's pastime [outro] No, to the old we shall bind beautiful wreaths And take our life and my cats as they are And despite all the lack of love and tattered edges I will love you for life, you I hold dear! [long fade out] [end] I will love you for life, you I hold dear! [electric guitar solo] [fade out] [end]