The Kinks - Scattered: lyrics and video

I'm scattered here and scattered there
From the day we are born
To the fields we are scattered
While sitting in my solitude
A cigarette stubbed out on the fireplace

We get bruised
I wish I knew
Wish I could prove
Though it's scattered in the world beyond
Those scattered clues she left behind
Ever since she's been gone
You're going home so what does it matter
And with emotional glue
Through it all we were scattered
By a breeze that is blown
And is she up there out of view
To grow wild and sleep rough
Beaten and battered
There'll only be my ashes to scatter
And the spirit can live on
To a worrying mind
A photograph with a smiling face
Is scattered like the universe
She's out of view

Till from the earth we are torn
Time and space and why world's move
But then I find
We're gonna stick together, body and mind
To a new life, a new dawn
The reason why this life on earth
No sight nor sound
We survive somewhat battered
We get battered
Now my life is all scattered
Are overgrown in weeds and in tatters
On some higher platitude
To an atomic mind
We are torn, we are shattered
Bits of me scattered everywhere
And I've been out of my mind
And all the logical answers
Ever since she's been gone



I look around that empty room
And a soul that is free
To the earth you are scattered
I've been alone to contemplate
Can live on eternally
I've watched the stars and wondered why
To the fields we are scattered
Like a seed that is sown

In the end what will it matter
But we'll pick up the pieces that scattered


Will be scattered in time
And the fields where we gathered
Now the crops are all scattered
They're scattered up there in the sky
All the children are scattered

I guess I'll never see her again
I feel the blues coming on

Ever since she went away
Then from the dust we are born

She's left so soon
A coffee cup with her lipstick stains

I feel older, I feel fatter
Scattered here while you travel time

Now some of us are barmy and battered