A Dustland Fairytale

A dustland fairytale beginning

Or just another white trash county kiss

In '61, long brown hair and foolish eyes

He'd looks just like you'd want him to

Some kind of slick chrome American Prince

A blue jean serenade and Moon river, what'd you do to me?

I don't believe you

Saw Cinderella in a party dress

But she was looking for a nightgown

I saw the devil wrapping up his hands

He's getting ready for the showdown

I saw the minute that I turned away

I got my money on a pawn tonight

A change came in disguise of revelation, set his soul on fire

She said she always knew he'd come around

And the decades disappear like sinking ships

But we persevere, God gives us hope

But we still fear what we don't know

The mind is poisoned

Castles in the sky sit stranded, vandalized

The drawbridge is closing

Saw Cinderella in a party dress

But she was looking for a nightgown

I saw the devil wrapping up his hands

He's getting ready for the showdown

I saw the ending when they turned the page

I threw my money and I ran away

Straight to the valley of the great divide

Out where the dreams all hide

Out where the wind don't blow

Out here the good girls die

And the sky won't snow

Out here the birds don't sing

Out here the fields don't grow

Out here the bell don't ring

Out here the bell don't ring

Out here the good girls die

Now Cinderella, don't you go to sleep?

It's such a bitter form of refuge

Oh, don't you know, the kingdom's under siege

And everybody needs you

Is there still magic in the midnight sun?

Or did you leave it back in '61?

In the cadence of a young man's eyes

Out where the dreams all hide