(Long Musical Intro) (Verse 1) For many years, the fountain’s have been dry The food court is empty and the shelves are bare Faded red, white and blue “special of the day” signs Are still hanging in the corner way over there Relics left over in the once busy arcade Plaster and paint chips dot the marble tile Nobody has been shopping here For quite a long while (Pre-Chorus) Then the billowing smoke rose up From somewhere down the dead-end hall Security was alerted, alarms started screaming But there was nothing that they saw Except some tiny scurrying gray feet In the fallen down layers of ceiling foam It’s eyes glowed like two tiny sparks In this closed-off vacant home (Chorus) Mice with matches, mice with matches Running through the pulverized ashes They lit up that dead space faster An eyesore burning that no longer mattered Per all the pertinent authorities They said it’s suspicious by nature Mice with matches, mice with matches Now the entire roof starts to cave and it shatters All that’s left are ruins, a structure left in tatters (Verse 2) Plastic mannequins are randomly scattered around Black paper placed on the inside of the store like a mask The escalator steps are shut-off And they’re headed nowhere fast A pigeon burst through the rooftop In the cracked opening in a pane of glass From the weather battered towered dome The air got hot and thick Like it opened the door to a heated stove (Pre-Chorus) Then the billowing smoke rose up From somewhere down the dead-end hall Security was alerted, alarms started screaming But there was nothing that they saw Except some tiny scurrying feet In the fallen down layers of ceiling foam His eyes glowed like two tiny sparks In this boarded up vacant home (Chorus) Mice with matches, mice with matches Running through the pulverized ashes They lit up that dead space faster An eyesore burning that no longer mattered Per all the pertinent authorities They said it’s suspicious by nature Mice with matches, mice with matches Now the entire roof starts to cave and it shatters All that’s left are ruins, a structure left in tatters (Verse 3) In the loading bay at the back of a store By the boarded up overhead dock doors Tiny scorch marks are evident On the painted white concrete floor Was it a prank gone awry? Could it just be a streak of bad luck? Or is it the work from those hungry little beedy eyes With a blackened soul and an evil touch (Pre-Chorus) Then the billowing smoke rose up From somewhere down the dead-end hall Security was alerted, alarms started screaming But there was nothing that they saw Except some tiny scurrying feet In the fallen down layers of ceiling foam His eyes glowed like two tiny sparks In this boarded up vacant home (Long Musical Solos) (Chorus) Mice with matches, mice with matches Running through the pulverized ashes They lit up that dead space faster An eyesore burning that no longer mattered Per all the pertinent authorities They said it’s suspicious by nature Mice with matches, mice with matches Now the entire roof starts to cave and it shatters All that’s left are ruins, a structure left in tatters
