it was upon a row of houses tight skirts and baggy trousers green men and 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 love and the sand runs out so close to midnight time to fly do or die stung in the headlights here we lie high and dry the world will never see you till 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 turn 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 love and your bed starts burning so close to midnight idlewild you don t know you never need to here we lie high and dry the world will never see you till 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 that wise is the word for us that high hopes are only there because because because i thought the only thing between us was something shallow not a river so deep dredge up the wreckage our parents left us lay it on the banks to rot and fester now it s hanging like a death star and gretna green dark and manchester i don t want to hear it now here we lie high and dry the world will never see you till you open your eyes say goodnight kill the light the world will never hear you tonight idlewild idlewild kill the light idlewild