A Dustland Fairytale -- The Killers

The Dustland Fairytale beginning With just another white trash county kiss in '61.
Long brown hair, and foolish eyes. He'd look just like you'd want him to
Some kind of slick chrome American prince.  Blue Jean serenade
Moon river what you do to me.  I don't believe you.
Saw Cinderella in a party dress, 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.

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, we don't know Your mind is poisoned.
Castles in the sky, sit stranded, vandalized. The drawbridge is closing.

Saw Cinderella in a party dress, 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 where they turned the page, I threw my money and I ran away.
Sent 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 bird don't sing Out here the field don't grow
Out here the bell don't ring Out hear 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.
Why 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

this is "specifically about my mom and dad." This song tells the story of how Flowers' mother and father met when they were both aged 15 and living on the same trailer park.