House on Fire

Midnight coming back around, the summer heat that wears me out
Is drifting through a firmament of cranes
And the friends I've left behind are speechless in my sunlit mind
As through the door to summer, through the door to summer, they pass away

If there's a stillness in your eyes
The unreal city's closing all its summer doors on you tonight
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
And I am in this house on fire
But I was only watching clouds go by

Through the doors of summer
Through the doors of summer
We pass away

And we were old before our time
And we knew as we heard the fields just singing in the quiet
That one day the band would strike a tune that carried us along
Through city gardens, leaving in the heat

And all the deals and trials on Ganton Street
The gas fire flares into the light
And 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
And everyone was leaving and the moment passed away
And 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, we pass away