I saw the red and blue
When they came to take your smile away
Like they'd been waiting there all day
Never sleeping, never keeping
Promises they made
With nowhere better to be
Waiting, the hospital sings out of key
In the room next door
They turned out your light
I just don't feel like sleeping tonight
We wound the clocks back to eleven
So their faces say that you're still here
Because we know the hospital's still singing
The only song that it knows
The song that carried you out
On the night they came to take your smile away
In the room next door
They turned out your light
I just don't feel like sleeping tonight
When we were young we were invincible
And machines didn't belong
Near your heart at all
And medicine wasn't what kept you breathing
But now grey has replaced the green in your eyes
I didn't want to be the one that let you down
Like your New Year's resolutions
I didn't want to be the one that saw you drown
In the water by the hill beneath the fireworks
In the room next door
They turned out your light
I just don't feel like sleeping tonight
When we were young we were invincible
And machines didn't belong
Near your heart at all
And medicine wasn't what kept you breathing
But now grey has replaced the green in your eyes
I remember the cold night
The time I felt like I might die
Then I saw the lights go out
She told you to close your eyes
Just close your eyes and let sleep
Come and take you now
Red and blue came to take your smile away
I saw the lights go out in the room next to me
When we were young we were invincible
And machines didn't belong
Near your heart at all
And medicine wasn't what kept you breathing
But now grey has replaced the green in your eyes