Puzzles and Pieces

Everyone's careful
They're plotting their best escapes
For fear of this whole place burning down
Puzzles and pieces

We're tangled in cages
And they rattle and shake their bones
But they grew from the earth, I watched them bloom
They came up and grabbed me

So stand in a world that seems to be built
On pillars and numbers
Or dance with the hopes of falling in love
Before we have learned to love ourselves

Measures and objects
They fall in our view of worth
And we're whittled away by zeroes won
Somebody save us

And nobody asks this
But where does our heart live on?
In dreaming of dangers, dream of God
And maybe we've got it

So stand in a world that seems to be built
On pillars and numbers
Or dance with the hopes of falling in love
Before we have learned just to...

Stand in a world that seems to be built
On pillars and numbers
Or dance with the hopes of falling in love
But how can we love
If we can't love ourselves?
Can't love ourselves...