A Dustland fairytale beginning   Or just another white trash county kiss   In '61, long brown hair and foolish eyes      He looked just like you'd want him to   Some kind of slick chrome American Prince   A blue jean serenade and moon river, what you do to me   And I don't believe you      Saw Cinderella in a party dress   But 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 palm tonight      Change came in disguise of revelation, set his soul on fire   She says 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 what we don't know      The mind is poison   Castles in the sky sit stranded, vandalized   A drawbridge is closin'      Saw Cinderella in a party dress   But 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 when they turned the page   I took my money and I ran away   Straight to the valley of the great divide      Out where the dreams are high   Out where the wind don't blow   Out here, the good girls die   And the sky won't snow      Out here the birds don't sing   Out here the fields don't grow   Out here the bell don't ring   Out here 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   Oh, 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   I wouldn't dream so high