Idlewild (feat. Josephine Oniyama)

It was upon a row of houses

Tight skirts and baggy trousers

Green men and cheap disguises

High hopes and higher rises

There lived a girl who was on a mission

There lived a boy who under suspicion

Tried hard to stay beside her

Until the devil put his seed inside her

How, you know how

Speak 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

Worshipped the ground beneath her

She, she was always runnin'

He, he saw the end was comin'

But now the story takes a turn

She wakes up and her sheets are burnin'

Head down against the fire

Now, now, now the table turns

She won't learn

Sleep to love, your bed starts burnin'

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 good together

I thought that we could weather the weather

Whether or not that wise is the word for us

The high hopes are only there because, because

Because I thought the only thing between us

Was somethin' shallow not a river so deep, we see us

Dredge up the wreckage our parents left us

Lay it on the banks to rot and fester

And now it's scarlet hangin' like a death star

And Gretna Green, dark in Manchester

And I don't wanna 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

Kill the light