Idlewild

It was upon a row of houses

Tight skirts and baggy trousers

Grey men in cheap disguises,

High hopes and higher rises

Who lived a girl who was on a mission

Who lived a boy who was under suspicion

Tried hard to stay beside her

Until the devil put his seed inside her

How?

You know how

Sleep to long and the sand runs out

So close to midnight

Time to fly

Do or die

Stoned in the headlights

Here we lie

High and dry

The world will never see you 'til you open your eyes

Say goodnight

Kill the light

The world will never hear you tonight

Idlewild

For two years he tried to reach her

Worshiped the ground beneath her

She, she was always running

He, he saw the end was coming

But now the story takes a turning

She wakes up and her sheets are burning

Head down against the fire

Now, now, now the table turns

She won't learn

Sleep to long and your bed starts burning

So close to midnight

Idlewild

You don't know it

You never need to

Here we lie

High and dry

The world will never see you 'til you open your eyes

Say goodnight

Kill the light

The world will never hear you tonight

Idlewild

Idlewild

I thought that we were good together

I thought that we could weather the weather

Whether or not the whys, the wherefores

The high hopes were only there because, because,

Because I thought the only thing between us

Was something shallow now a river so deep we see it

Dredge up the wreckage our parents left us

And lay it on the banks to rot and fester

And now I smell it hanging like a death star,

In Gretna Green, Derby, Manchester[?]

I don't want to hear it now

Here we lie

High and dry

The world will never see you 'til you open your eyes

Say goodnight, kill the light

The world will never hear you tonight

Idlewild

Idlewild

Kill the light

Idlewild...