House on Fire-The Clientele

[00:00.300] [00:20.500]Midnight coming back around, the summer heat that wears me out [00:26.500]Is drifting through a firmament of cranes [00:33.080]And the friends I've left behind are speechless in my sunlit mind [00:39.280]As through the door to summer, through the door to summer, they pass away [00:54.440]If there's a stillness in your eyes [00:58.120]The unreal city's closing all its summer doors on you tonight [01:07.369]Won't you step into the light? [01:11.149]The arcades that have blossomed just to fade into the shadows of the night [01:20.509]Through all the trains still moving in my mind [01:26.810]The gas fire flares into the light [01:30.137]And I am in this house on fire [01:33.158]But I was only watching clouds go by [01:43.560] [01:59.090]Through the doors of summer [02:05.167]Through the doors of summer [02:10.258]We pass away [02:13.638]And we were old before our time [02:17.427]And we knew as we heard the fields just singing in the quiet [02:26.328]That one day the band would strike a tune that carried us along [02:33.968]Through city gardens, leaving in the heat [02:39.818]And all the deals and trials on Ganton Street [02:45.878]The gas fire flares into the light [02:49.028]And I am in this house on fire [02:52.117]But I was only watching clouds go by [02:59.768]I picked her up at half past four, the church hall in a haze [03:04.318]Unreal as I could ever really be [03:10.669]And everyone was leaving and the moment passed away [03:16.938]And ended up inside my heart, a dream [03:20.677] [03:46.979]Midnight coming back around, the summer heat that wears me out [03:52.818]Is rising to my eyes behind the flames [03:59.378]I have come to disbelieve exactly what I hear and see [04:05.268]As through the door to summer, through the door to summer, we pass away