When you were younger

You'd paint those mountains

Towering cliffs of snow where you could be lost

When you were younger

You'd make those movies

Out on the weekend with your best friends

Anchors away

Now that you're older

You disavow all the things that you create

And I don't see you in quite the same way

When I was younger

I'd watch the wildfires

How they would surround my hometown

Like a fence of light

And up on the hilltop

There is a house where

Standing empty, evacuees have torn up the grass

And they are praying

Lord please protect our precious real estate

But they don't see it in quite the same way

They're sayin'

I don't wanna live in the house on the hill

They're sayin' I don't wanna live in the house on the hill

Yea I know you wanna live in the house on the hill

But I'm older and I'm wiser and it's so hard to leave

Now that I'm older

I don't see the point in learning to self-destruct

Cause I'm movin' on, looking in, moving up

Baby I don't wanna live in the house on the hill

Baby I don't wanna live in the house on the hill

Yea I know you wanna live in the house on the hill

But I'm older and I'm wiser and it's so hard to leave