[00:00.000] Scattered [00:00.640] Artist: The Kinks [00:01.200] Album: Phobia [00:01.800] This song is dedicated to the memory of [00:02.500] Annie Florence Davies and Carol Bryans. [00:03.350] Like a seed that is sewn [00:05.970] All the children are scattered [00:09.960] By a breeze that is blown [00:13.660] Now the crops are all scattered [00:17.400] We are torn, we are shattered [00:21.910] Now some of us are barmy and battered [00:25.110] And the fields where we gathered [00:29.250] Are overgrown in ****s and in tatters [00:32.310] Through it all we were scattered [00:37.280] To the fields we are scattered [00:39.970] From the day we are born [00:43.260] To grow wild and sleep rough [00:47.070] Till from the earth we are torn [00:50.810] And a soul that is free [00:55.720] Can live on eternally [00:57.800] And the spirit can live on [01:01.830] Though it's scattered in the world beyond [01:04.880] And I've been out of my mind [01:07.600] Ever since she's been gone [01:10.260] I look around that empty room [01:17.310] No sight nor sound [01:21.160] She's left so soon [01:24.900] She's out of view [01:28.500] But the I find [01:32.020] Those scattered clues she left behind [01:39.140] A photograph with a smiling face [01:42.610] A cigarette stubbed out on the fireplace [01:46.370] A coffee cup with her lipstick stains [01:49.700] I guess I'll never see her again [01:53.540] Now my life is all scattered [01:56.010] Ever since she's been gone [01:59.600] I feel older, I feel fatter [02:04.250] I feel the blues coming on [02:07.440] We get bruised [02:09.290] We get battered [02:11.670] But we'll pick up the pieces that scattered [02:14.780] And with emotional glue [02:16.590] We're gonna stick together, body and mind [02:19.840] Ever since she went away [02:22.570] I've been alone to contemplate [02:26.250] Time and space and why world's move [02:29.610] While sitting in my solitude [02:32.970] I've watched the stars and wondered why [02:37.030] They're scattered up there in the sky [02:40.590] And is she up there out of view [02:43.980] On some higher platitude [02:48.410] I wish I knew [02:52.350] Wish I could prove [02:55.720] The reason why this life on earth [02:58.410] Is scattered like the universe [03:09.280] I'm scattered here and scattered there [03:13.360] Bits of me scattered everywhere [03:16.710] To the fields we are scattered [03:19.030] Then from the dust we are born [03:22.960] We survive somewhat battered [03:26.280] To a new life, a new dawn [03:30.310] IN the end what will it matter [03:34.520] There'll only be my ashes to scatter [03:37.600] And all the logical answers [03:40.070] To a worrying mind [03:41.610] Will be scattered in time [03:44.830] Beaten and battered [03:48.520] To the earth you are scattered [03:52.860] You're going home so what does it matter [03:55.750] To an atomic mind [03:57.910] Scattered here while you travel time