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 back seat
House on the hill
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 wanna let it show, but the fear's on his face
Got a girl back home, that he'll see next May
But what he doesn't know is there's one on the way
House on the hill
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 waits 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 solomn vow
Kneel at the alter this pantheon's resurrected
Scream hallelujah
