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