[Verse 1: Fran Healy]
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 too long and the sand runs out
So close to midnight
Time to fly, do or die
Stoned in the headlights

[Chorus: Josephine Oniyama]
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

[Verse 2: Fran Healy]
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 and
She wakes up and her sheets are burnin'
Head down against the fire
Now, now, now the table turns
She won't learn
Sleep too long and your bed starts burnin'
So close to midnight
Idlewild, you don't know
You never need to
[Chorus: Josephine Oniyama, Fran Healy, Both]
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 (Do, do, do, do)
Idlewild (Do, do, do, do)

[Verse 3: Fran Healy]
I thought that we were good together
I thought that we could weather the weather
Whether or not, the why's 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
Now its skeleton hangin' like a Death Star
In Gretna Green, Darby, Manchester
And I don't want to hear it now

[Chorus: Josephine Oniyama, Both]
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
[Outro: Josephine Oniyama]
Idlewild
Idlewild
Kill the light
Idlewild
Kill the light