This is the first single to be released from Cage The Elephant's Social Cues album. The band describes the record as being largely inspired by the unravelling of frontman Matt Shultz's marriage to French actress and model Juliette Buchs.
Matt Shultz wrote the song after taking a trip to Pompeii, Italy with Juliette. It was there they realized they were headed for divorce. Don't you worry baby, no sense trying to change it I'ma strike these matches, never had control I'm ready to let go, no, was I fooling myself I'm a spread these ashes, never had control I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready to let go The Roman city of Pompeii was destroyed by a volcano in 79AD. Much like the fate of Pompeii, Shultz describes their once beautiful love as having turned to ashes.
Here are three more songs in our database that reference the ancient disaster: "Cities In Dust" by Siouxsie and the Banshees "Vesuvius" by Sufjan Stevens "Pompeii" by Bastille
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