House On The Hill

Sixteen years old, only just found out today

Nowhere to go, but she's leaving anyway

The taxi waits outside as she turns the key

Leaves a note behind that he'll never read

And as the rain pours down, the meter starts to read

She looks back one last time in tears from the backseat

House on the hill, a fortress on solid ground

Is now shuttered and still, a ghost of its former self

Kneel at the alter this pantheon covered in dust, sing Hallelujah

Eighteen years old, enlisted and boarding a plane

He bought what they sold, just like a moth to the flame

He's scared and all alone in a distant place

Don't want to let it show, but the fear's on his face

Got a girl back home that he'll see next May

And what he doesn't know is there's one on the way

House on the hill, a fortress on solid ground

Is now shuttered and still, a ghost of its former self

Kneel at the alter this pantheon covered in dust, sing Hallelujah

And so she wakes and breaks inside her shell

He wrote a note that got delivered to her old address

She's not coming back, he's not coming back

House on the hill, fortress on hollow ground

Standing here still, make this a solemn vow

Here at the alter this pantheon's resurrected, sing Hallelujah