Safe as Houses

Are you somewhere safe as houses?

Close your eyes count one, two three.

Run and hide now are you ready?

Ollie, ollie in-come-free.

Itsy bitsy spider crawls

Up the clear blue glass, down the broken walls.

All the games we played as children

To fight against the dark

Red, Red Rover, four-leafed clover

Ashes, ashes all fall down...

Feeling sick, stay home inside

See the t.v. news, and the New York skyline.

I want to make you a sheltering sound

But right side's wrong, and upside's down.

All the games we played as children

Not to feel so small

Red, Red Rover, four-leafed clover

Ashes, ashes all fall down, all fall down

And it's a beautiful world

Sun is shining so bright

And it tilts through the late summer leaves

But now there's a hole in the sky.

God I wish I could believe in and pray

When everything changes in a day.

Are you somewhere safe as houses

Mother may I run and hide?

Don't throw stones at other people

Hope your brother's on your side

And all the games we played as children

To fight agains the dark

Red, Red Rover, four-leafed clover

Ashes, ashes all fall down, all fall down

All fall down.