Tim Booth - Shatters lyrics

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 k** 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