House On Fire

Midnight coming back around the summer heat that wears me out is drifting through a firmament of cranes & the friends I've left behind are speechless in my sunlit mind as through the door to summer through the door to summer they pa*s away if there's a stillness in your eyes the unreal city's closing all its summer doors on you tonight yeah won't you step into the light the arcades that have blossomed just to fade into the shadows of the night through all the trains still moving in my mind the gas fire flares into the light & I am in this house on fire but I was only watching clouds go by and we were old before our time & we knew as we heard the fields just singing in the quiet yeah that one day the band would strike a tune that carried us along through city gardens, leaving in the heat & all the deals & trials on Ganton Street the gas fire flares into the light & I am in this house on fire but I was only watching clouds go by I picked her up at half past four the church hall in a haze unreal as I could ever really be & everyone was leaving & the moment pa*sed away & ended up inside my heart a dream midnight coming back around the summer heat that wears me out is rising to my eyes behind the flames I have come to disbelieve exactly what I hear and see as through the door to summer through the door to summer I pa*s away (thanks to Humberto for this lyric)