From Travis with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barrowlands http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07cz6jg

[Verse]
            
It was upon ro

              
w of houses, t

 
ight skirts an

d baggy trouse

rs

Grey men and c

heap disguises

, high hopes a

nd higher rise

s

There lived a 

girl who was o

n a mission

There lived a 

boy who was un

der suspicion

Tried hard to 

stay beside he

r

Until the devi

l put his seed

 inside her
            
How? You know 

          
how... Sleep t

oo long and th

e sand runs ou

t
 
So close to mi

dnight
           
Time to fly, d

           
o or die, stun

g in the headl

ights

[Chorus]
            
Here we lie, h


igh and dry

The world will

 never see you

 till you open

 your eyes
            
Say goodnight,

  
 kill the ligh

t
            
The world will

              
 never hear yo

              
u tonight, Idl

  
ewild

[Verse]

For two years 

he tried to re

ach her

Worshiped the 

ground beneath

 her

She, she was a

lways running.

.. He, he saw 

the end was co

ming

But now the st

ory takes a tu

rning

She wakes up a

nd her sheets 

are burning
            
Head down agai

              
nst the fire..

              
. Now, now, no

             
w the table tu


rns
            
She won't lear

    
n, sleep too l

ong and your b

ed starts burn

ing

So close to mi

dnight
           
Idlewild you d

              
on't know if y


ou never need 

to

[Chorus]
            
Here we lie, h


igh and dry

The world will

 never see you

 till you open

 your eyes
            
Say goodnight,

  
 kill the ligh

t
            
The world will

              
 never hear yo

              
u tonight, Idl

           
ewild... Idlew

 
ild

[Verse]

I thought that

 we were good 

together

I thought that

 we could weat

her the weathe

r

Whether or not

 the whys, the

 wherefores

High hopes are

 only there be

cause, because

Because I thou

ght the only t

hing between u

s

Was something 

shallow, not a

 river so deep

 we see it

Dredge up the 

wreckage our p

arents left us

And lay it on 

the banks to r

ot and fester

And smell it l

ike a death st

ar

In Gretna Gree

n, Derby, Manc

hester

I don't want t

o hear it now

[Chorus]
            
Here we lie, H


igh and dry

The world will

 never see you

 till you open

 your eyes
            
Say goodnight,

  
 kill the ligh

t
            
The world will

              
 never hear yo

              
u tonight, Idl

           
ewild... Idlew

 
ild
            
Kill the light

              
, Idlewild...