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   Holding onto my memory of what this used to be   Holding onto my memory of you      Sometimes I tell myself that things are o.k.   Another lie but it makes me feel better   Never as old as I was today   I'm gonna breakdown      In american pompeii   In american pompeii   Break myself just to live this way   Never as old, as I was today   American pompeii      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 want to climb   Giving up my memory of what this used to be   Giving up my memory of you      Sometimes I tell myself that things are o.k.   Another lie but it makes me feel better   Never as old as I was today   I'm gonna breakdown      In american pompeii   In american pompeii   Break myself just to live this way   Never as old, as I was today   American pompeii      Try to imagine the best place I've been   Can I go back again   Open my eyes it just 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