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 a soul that is free   Can live on eternally   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's 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      Now my life is all scattered   Ever since she's been gone   I feel older, I feel fatter   I feel the blues coming 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 world's move   While sitting in my solitude      I've watched the stars and 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 worrying mind      Will be scattered in time   Beaten and battered   To the earth you are scattered   You're going home so what does it matter   To an atomic mind   Scattered here while you travel time