Letra de Pompeii Am Gotterdammerung Explained
Havin' uh, recently came back from uh, Cologne, Germany, uhm We realized how much uh, part of this melody resembles the German national anthem Now, I think we knew that uh, there were some uh, vague, uhm I think there is a quite a few melodies that can remind you of it It's just one of those kinda, kinds of major familiarities, right, right, uhmOur manager, uhm, Scott Booker uhm, took German history uhm, in high school And actually went to Cologne, Germany when he was about sixteen And when we played the track for him He immidiately thought, "Oh, there's something about this that reminded me of that" And then like I said I've recently gone to Germany everybody there was like "Oh, so you uh, you like Germans, the German and Austrian composers?" Uhm, and the reason they say that is because part of title uhm, has this word Gotterdammerung Which I'm-I'm not sure if it's actually a word or if it's a word that Wagner made up for his opera But anyway I think it's, it's come to-Yeah, Michael isn't literally translated as, "The twilight of the gods? Is that what it is, literally? Yes, yes, literally, I think it's a part of the whole Norse, Odin and Thor and all that stuff I think there's a real... Based in mythology But this idea of it being connected to-to-to the composer Wagner and his sot of, sense of drama and If there's anything in music that doesn't have subtlety to it Wouldn't you think it would be Wagner? If you say someone is Wagnerias, it sorta be like they're big I don't know if you'd wanna hang out with him nowAnd so it combines a sort of a, you could almost feel the fire and the death and destruction within the song But also I think it has real sort of stern beautifulness in that flute melody The stern beautifulness? Well, there's something, there's something, sort of fragile, sort of fragile uh, fragile yet strong at the same time And maybe that is this that Germannishness going on in there, yeahI think, I think probably the source of inspiration was uhm There's a band called Lake Trout that we befriended with, we befriended and we played a festival with them And they have a guy named Matt, that plays, he plays rhodes piano But he also plays this creepy flute, like real, an acoustic flute It seemed like it's ran through reverb or delay or something It's a real haunting kinda sound, it gets I remember getting home after seeing them and thinking that would be really cool to do something like that So, I'd give out bit a shout to those guys