Castle Down a Dirt Road - The Magnetic Fields

Well, we failed in all the normal ways of doing things

Ways that wouldn’t make our parents disown us

All those chemistry degrees just left us rueing things

So we played the numbers, fates, dice and thrown us

In a castle down a dirt road

Where the lighting flowed

We were thinking of ways to make things explode

In a castle down a dirt road

Certain technicals prevented us from living there

Such that what our parents thought was rendered aloof

Our new center problem centered on conceiving there

Ah, but worse was how to find the offspring cute

In a castle down a dirt road

Where we dreamed in code

There was mass destruction in every newt and toad

In a castle down a dirt road

In a castle down a dirt road

Where a strange wind blowed

One flash of light and then strange things growed

In a castle down a dirt road