The Magnetic Fields - Castle Down a Dirt Road lyrics

Well, we failed at all the
Normal ways of doing things
Ways that wouldn't make our parents disown us
All those chemistry degrees just
Left us ruing things
So we played the numbers fate's
Dice had thrown us

In a castle down a dirt road
Where the lightning flowed
We were thinking up ways
To make things explode
In a castle down a dirt road

Certain technicals prevented us
From leaving there
Such that what our parents
Thought was rendered moot
Our new set of problems
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