Lyrics Honor Society – House On The Hill
Text:
Sixteen years old, only just found out today
Nowhere to go, but she’s leaving anyway
The taxi waits outside as she turns the key
Leaves a note behind that he’ll never read
She looks back one last time in tears from the backseat
House on the hill, a fortress on solid ground
Is now shuttered and still, a ghost of its former self
Kneel at the alter this pantheon covered in dust, sing Hallelujah
Eighteen years old, enlisted and boarding a plane
He bought what they sold, just like a moth to the flame
He’s scared and all alone in a distant place
Don’t want to let it show, but the fear’s on his face
Got a girl back home that he’ll see next May
And what he doesn’t know is there’s one on the way
House on the hill, a fortress on solid ground
Is now shuttered and still, a ghost of its former self
Kneel at the alter this pantheon covered in dust, sing Hallelujah
And so she wakes and breaks inside her shell
He wrote a note that got delivered to her old address
She’s not coming back, he’s not coming back
House on the hill, fortress on hollow ground
Standing here still, make this a solemn vow
Here at the alter this pantheon’s resurrected, sing Hallelujah
