Its Torn

Verso 1: I see you in windows That open so wide There's nothing beyond them And no one inside Verso 2: You kick off your sandals And shake out your hair The salt on your shoulders Like sparks in the air Verso 3: There's silt on your ankles And sand on your feet The river too shallow The ocean too deep Verso 4: You smile at your suffering The sweetest reprieve Why did you leave us? Why did you leave? You kick off your sandals And shake out your hair It's torn where you're dancing It's torn everywhere Verso 5: It's torn on the right And it's torn on the left It's torn in the centre Which few can accept Verso 6: It's torn where there's beauty It's torn where there's death It's torn where there's mercy But torn somewhat less Verso 7: It's torn in the highest From kingdom to crown The messages fly But the network is down Verso 8: Bruised at the shoulder And cut at the wrist The sea rushes home To its thimble of mist Verso 9: The opposites falter The spirals reverse And Eve must re-enter The sleep of her birth And up through the system The worlds are withdrawn From every dominion The mind stood upon And now that you told her And now that it's done The name has no number Not even the one Verso 10: Come gather the pieces All scattered and lost The lie in what's holy The light in what's not Verso 11: The story's been written The letter's been sealed You gave me a lily But now it's a field Outro You kick off your sandals And shake out your hair It's torn where you're dancing It's torn everywhere