[Verse 1: Brandon Flowers]

Time it tells, living in my home town

Wedding bells, they begin easy

Live it down, baby don't talk that much

Baby knows, but baby don't tease me

In the park, we could go walking

Drown in the dark, or we could go sailing

On the sea

[Verse 2: Lou Reed, Brandon Flowers & Lou Reed]

Always here, always on time

Close call, was it love, or was it just easy?

Money talks when people need shoes and socks

Steady, boys, I'm thinking she needs me

I was just sipping on something sweet

I don't need political process

[Pre-Chorus: Brandon Flowers, Brandon Flowers & Lou Reed]

I got this feeling that they're going to break down the door

I got this feeling they they're going to come back for more

See, I was thinking that I lost my mind

But it's been getting to me all this time

And it don't stop dragging me down

[Chorus: Brandon Flowers & Lou Reed]

Silently, reflection turns my world to stone

Patiently, correction leaves us all alone

And sometimes I'm a travel man

But tonight, this engine's failing

[Bridge: Mo Manye, Tamara Robinson & Journi Gallwey & Brandon Flowers]

I still hear the children playing

Kick the can, kick the can, skip and blackjack

Steal a car and ring a round-rosey

Rock and roll, candy land, boogeyman

Run away and give me your sneakers

[Verse 3: Brandon Flowers & Lou Reed, Brandon Flowers]

Acid rain, when Abel looked up at Cain

We began the weeping and wailing

A hurried high from pestilence, pills and pride

It's a shame, we could've gone sailing

But heaven knows, heaven knows everything

Tranquilize

[Pre-Chorus: Brandon Flowers & Lou Reed]

I got this feeling that they're going to break down the door

I got this feeling they they're going to come back for more

See, I was thinking that I lost my mind

But it's been getting to me all this time

And it don't stop dragging me down

[Chorus: Brandon Flowers & Lou Reed]

Silently, reflection turns my world to stone

Patiently, correction leaves us all alone

And sometimes I'm a travel man

But tonight, this engine's failing

[Post-Chorus: Brandon Flowers]

And I still hear the children playing

Dead beat dancers come to us and stay

[Outro: Lou Reed]

'Cause I don't care where you've been

And I don't care what you've seen

We're the ones who still believe

And we're looking for a page

In that lifeless book of hope

Where a dream might help you cope

Where the Bushes and the bombs

Are tranquilized