Shatters - Tim Booth

We wandered through abandoned streets

Shutters torn from walls

Wild dogs flit between the wrecks we keep the children close

Somewhere inside a baby cries / a cry that must be fed

We’ve not enough to feed ourselves

Too late the boy breaks off and goes

Down through the buckled doors

Down to the mud and the straw

Down where the cables strobe the rupture

Down through the halls of shame

Down past the need for blame

Down where the waste piled up like sculpture

All that shatters, all that shatters

Breaks us open

All that shatters, all that shatters

Lets the light in

All that shatters, all that shatters

Breaks us open

All that shatters, all that shatters

Lets more light in

In the half light I catch sight of her

In laughter‘s 3 note song

In the darkness I’m in need of her

Reach out and then she’s gone

Like a dream she enters in to me

Complete we move as one

Close to touch yet visionary

Fragile and yet strong

In a labcoat they would capture her

Shape her like a bomb

Copyright and manufacture

Her endless fractal song

In foolish hands we kill ourselves

One finger on the gun

In shooting at an enemy who’s everybody’s son

All that shatters, all that shatters

Breaks us open

All that shatters, all that shatters

Lets more light in

All that shatters, all that shatters

Breaks us open

All that shatters, all that shatters

Lets more light in