Eén van mijn favoriete nummers van dit jaar is Above The Clouds Of Pompeii van de Engelse groep Bear’s Den. Een lied met een prachtige tekst, een mooie opbouw en heerlijke samenzang. Het komt van hun debuutalbum Islands (2014).

Above the clouds
We built our home out on the slopes.
Pompeii beneath, she lay above.
How she haunted our home.
How she haunted our home.

You were a god in my eyes.
Above the clouds, above the skies.
You were a god in my eyes.
You were a god.

You took me walking through the town.
Showed me the statues underground.
Said just don’t they look in peace.
Sometimes I wish that was me.

I was the son you always had.
Tugging at your coat while you were sad.
I was the son you always had.
I was the son you always had.

Oh please don’t cry.
Hold your head up high.
She would want you to.
She would want you to.

 
You said stay in the car and wait.
There’s just some things I have to say.
Don’t you know I miss her too.
I miss her just as much as you.

So my father and my son. 
As you end what she’s begun.
You’ll lie patient by her side.
With roses red come lilies white.

I was too young to understand.
The flowers slipping from your hands.
I was too young to understand.
I was too young to understand.
I was too young to understand.
The flowers sleeping in her hands.
I was too young to understand.
I was too young to understand.

Please don’t cry.
Hold your head up high.
She would want you to.
She would want you to.