(Verse One)
All the pieces that I have
Of everything that I am
I stash away inside
This shiny small, empty little box of mine
And when I put it there
It disappears in thin air
To keep it safe from you
From him, and her
From all of us and even me too
(Verse Two)
One day I found a beam
Of sun intended for me
In arms I held it close
But smothered it and drowned it out in doing so
And so I opened up
The box to store all I love
Inside I hid it well
Now there's nothing to show and even less
There's nothing to tell
(Chorus)
So many of the small things lost
Already in the box I've got
Put it in and there's no finding
It has a way of forever hiding
Bits and pieces of a makeshift man
Thrown together like a heap of sand
All the sympathies and double-crosses
The water comes and then away it washes
Keep it real and keep it clean
And think of everything I've ever seen
All the parts of me that I remember
Are reconstructions of the ‘who I wish I were'
All the purities are better saved
Any innocents that might remain
Ever gone, forever out of contact
The little box I have will never give it back
(Bridge)
Over the edge it goes, further into…
No one knows