[Verse 1: Brandon Flowers]
A Dustland fairytale beginning
With 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
Moon River what`d you do to me
I don`t believe you

[Chorus: Bruce Springsteen]
Saw Cinderella in a party dress but
She was looking for a night gown
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

[Verse 2: Brandon Flowers & Bruce Springsteen & Both]
The change came in disguise of revelation, set his soul on fire
She said she`d 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
We`re drawbridges closing



[Chorus: Both]
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 threw my money and I ran away
Straight to the valley of the great divide

[Bridge: Both]
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 here the bell don`t ring
Out here the good girls die

[Outro: Brandon Flowers & Bruce Springsteen & Both]
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 sixty-one
In the cadence of a young man`s eyes
Out where the dreams all hide