Scattered

Like a seed that is sown

All the children are scattered

By a breeze that is blown

Now the crops are all scattered

We are torn, we are shattered

Now some of us are barmy and battered

And the fields where we gathered

Are overgrown in weeds and in tatters

Through it all we were scattered

To the fields we are scattered

From the day we are born

To grow wild and sleep rough

Till from the earth we are torn

And the soul, that is free

Can live on eternity

And the spirit can live on

Though it's scattered in the world beyond

And I've been out of my mind ever since she's been gone

I look around

That empty room

No sight nor sound

She left so soon

She's out of view

But then I find

Those scattered clues

She left behind

A photograph with a smiling face

A cigarette stubbed out on the fireplace

A coffee cup with her lipstick stains

I guess I'll never see her again (Never)

Now my life is all scattered

Ever since she's been gone

I feel older, I feel fatter

I feel the blues comin' on

We get bruised, we get battered

But we'll pick up the pieces that scattered

And with emotional glue

We're gonna stick together, body and mind

Ever since she went away

I've been alone to contemplate

Time and space and why worlds move

While sitting in my solitude

I've watched the stars

Wondered why

They're scattered up there in the sky

And is she up there out of view

On some higher platitude?

I wish I knew

Wish I could prove

The reason why this life on earth

Is scattered like the universe

I'm scattered here and scattered there

Bits of me scattered everywhere

To the fields we are scattered

Then from the dust we are born

We survive somewhat battered

To a new life, a new dawn

In the end what will it matter?

There'll only be my ashes to scatter

And all the logical answers to a worryin' mind

Will be scattered in time

Beaten and battered

To the earth you are scattered

You're goin' home so what does it matter

To an atomic mind?

Scattered here while you travel time, ah