Scattered

Intro 
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Like a seed that is sewn, 
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All the children are scattered, 
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By a breeze that is blown . . ., 
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Now the crops are all scattered, 
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We are torn,  we are shattered, 
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Now some of us are barmy and battered, 
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And the fields  where we gathered, 
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Are overgrown in weeds and in tatters, 
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Through it all  we were scattered. 
 

 
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To the fields we are scattered, 
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From the day we are born . . ., 
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To grow wild and sleep rough, 
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Till from the earth we are torn . . ., 
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And a soul   that is free, 
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Can live on eternally, 
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And the spirit   can live on, 
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Though it's scattered in the world beyond, 
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And I've been out of my mind, 
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Ever since she's been gone. 
 

 
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  I look around that empty room, 
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No sight nor sound, 
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She's left so soon, 
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She's out of view, 
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But then I find, 
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Those scattered clues she left behind, 
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A photograph with a smiling face, 
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A cigarette stubbed out on the fireplace, 
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A coffee cup with her lipstick stains, 
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I guess I'll never see her again. 
 

 
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Now my life is all scattered, 
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Ever since she's been gone, 
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I feel older, I feel fatter, 
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I feel the blues coming on . . ., 
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We get bruised,   we get battered, 
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But we'll pick up the pieces that scattered, 
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And with emotional glue, 
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We're gonna stick together, body and mind. 
 

 
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Ever since she went away, 
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I've been alone to contemplate, 
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Time and space and why world's move, 
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While sitting in my solitude, 
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I've watched the stars and wondered why, 
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They're scattered up there in the sky, 
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And is she up there out of view, 
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 On some higher platitude. 
 

 
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I wish I knew, 
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Wish I could prove, 
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The reason why this life on earth, 
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Is scattered like the universe, 
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Do bub . . ., 
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Do bub . . ., 
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I'm scattered here and scattered there, 
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Bits of me scattered everywhere. 
 

 
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To the fields we are scattered, 
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Then from the dust we are born, 
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We survive somewhat battered, 
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To a new life, a new dawn, 
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In the end   what will it matter, 
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There'll only be my ashes to scatter, 
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And all the logical answers, 
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To a worrying mind, 
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Will be scattered in time, 
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Beaten and battered, 
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To the earth   you are scattered, 
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You're going home so what does it matter, 
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To an atomic mind, 
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Scattered here while you travel time. 
 

Outro 
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