[Intro] Em  C  Bm
        Em  C  Bm

Em
It was upon a row of houses
C
Tight skirts and baggy trousers
Bm
Green men and cheap disguises
Bm
High hopes and higher rises
Em
Who lived a girl who was on a mission
C
Who lived a boy who was under suspicion
Bm
Tried hard to stay beside her
Bm
Until the devil put his seed inside her

Em
How?
Em
You know how
C
Sleep to love and the sand runs out
Bm
So close to midnight
Em
Time to fly
C
Do or die
Bm
Stoned in the headlights

Em
Here we lie
C
High and dry
Bm
The world will never see you 'till you open your eyes
Em
Say goodnight
C
Kill the light
Bm
The world will never hear you tonight
Idlewild

Em
For two years he tried to reach her
C
Worshiped the ground beneath her
Bm
She, she was always running
Bm
He, he saw the end was coming
Em
But now the story takes a turn
C
She wakes up and her sheets are burning
Bm
Head down against the fire
Bm
Now, now, now the table turns

Em
She won't learn
C
Sleep to love and your bed starts burning
Bm
So close to midnight
Em
Idlewild 
C
You don't know
Bm
You never need to

Em
Here we lie
C
High and dry
Bm
The world will never see you 'till you open your eyes
Em
Say goodnight
C
Kill the light
Bm
The world will never hear you tonight
Bm    Em  C
Idlewild
      Bm
Idlewild

Em
I thought that we were good together
C
I thought that we could weather the weather
Bm
Whether or not that wise is the word for us
That high hopes are only there because, because

Em
Because I thought the only thing between us
C
Was something shallow not a river so deep (we see us)
Bm
Dredge up the wreckage our parents left us
Bm
Lay it on the banks to rot and fester
Em
Now it's (scarlet and) hanging like a death star
C                                 Bm
And Gretna Green dark and Manchester
Bm
I don't want to hear it now

Em
Here we lie
C
High and dry
Bm
The world will never see you 'till you open your eyes
Em
Say goodnight 
C
Kill the light
Bm
The world will never hear you tonight
      Em  C
Idlewild
      Bm
Idlewild
          Em
Kill the light
C         Bm
Idlewild