[Intro]

     x2


[Verse 1]

            
Old yellow bri

              
cks, love's a 


risk
             
Quite the litt

           
le escapologis

t
            
Looked so miff

            
ed when you wi

shed
             
For a thousand

              
 places better

 
 than this

            
You are the fu

              
gitive but you

 
 don't know wh

at you're runn

ing from
             
You can't kid 

       
us and you cou

ldn't trick an

yone 
            
Houdini  love,

            
 you don't kno

              
w what you're 

             
running away f

     
rom


[Chorus]

         
Who wants to s

              
leep in the ci

   
ty that never 

wakes up?
         
      Blinded 

            
by nostalgia 
         
Who wants to s

              
leep in the ci

            
ty that never 

          
wakes up?


[Verse 2]

            
She was enrage

         
d by the way
             
That the emper

              
or put traps i

      
n the cage
            
And the days s

     
he being dull
             
Lead to nights

              
 reading beer 

   
bottles

              
You're such a 

            
fugitive but y

   
ou don't know 

what you're ru

nning from
             
You can't kid 

       
us and you cou

ldn't trick an

yone
            
Houdini  love,

            
 you don't kno

              
w what you're 

             
running away f

    
rom


[Chorus]

         
Who wants to s

              
leep in the ci

   
ty that never 

wakes up?
         
      Blinded 

            
by nostalgia
         
Who wants to s

              
leep in the ci

   
ty that never 

wakes up?


[Instrumental]

           x3
     



[Chorus]

         
You're at a  l

          
oss, just beca

use
         
     It wasn't

              
 all that you 

        
thought it was
         
You are a  fug

            
itive but you 

              
don't know wha

            
t you're runni

          
ng away from
            
She said I wan

           
t to sleep in 

         
the city that 

never wakes up
         
    And revel 

            
in nostalgia
              
I know I said 

         
he wants to sl

              
eep in the cit

  
y that never w

akes up but

       Dorothy

 was right tho

ugh


[Outro]

     x2