People say that you and I
Get on like a house on fire
If they’ve ever seen a house on fire
Then they’d be right
The cruelty of love laid blind
With sentimental smoke in your eyes
We realise we’ve built a life
In a house on fire
But it’s you I want
Always you I want
Yeah it’s you I want
In our house on fire
And the blessing and the curse
Is I feel better feeling worse
Just for a moment
My thoughts come in to focus
Black coffee, white powder
Big talk in the small hours
Dejection to desire via service-station flowers
It’s you I want
In our house on fire
People say that you and I
Get on like a house on fire
And the blessing and the curse
Is I feel better feeling worse
Just for a moment
My thoughts come in to focus
The kingdom, the glory
Ascending purgatory
With that blood-stained torn t-shirt
Good God, it’s nice to meet you
Just to owe less than I’m owed
Just to pay less than I’m paid
Just to hope a passing asteroid
Will blow us all away
It’s you I want
Yeah, it’s you I want
In our house on fire
In a house on fire