In Pieces

There are handless lovers Somewhere we can't reach, There's jars of dead babys On a stillborn beach. There's a lonely sailor Stranded on sand, And a drowning mermaid Beneath the land. There's words we can't say In a night so long, The sun's up again Before it's begun. There's a raining fire And a smoking haze, And we all grew blind Before we learned to gaze. We learned to drive Before we learned to walk, And we read the skies Before the clocks. And we ran so fast And we ran so slow, We forgot the dreams That made us go. We ran out of time Before we were born- And when we're together, In pieces, we're torn.