La Dispute - The Crash lyrics

You would capture the whole scene
Shuffling backward in that way across time
Impossibly

The head swiveling the ankles clicking

You would see it: The beginning and end
From your perch above the power lines
The crash

Watching the story arc play

And when the first sound fades out
And the colors all blend
The end of the line is straight
Until the last word’s written
Like that’s how life works
Like it all just stops there

But it isn’t and doesn’t
And we don’t either

Because everything before was and is
Too at the same time
Life and death stacked like ribs to
Hold the lungs and heart
Inside a body that rejects them so why try

And still you float
Seek the streets of home and here
To find the tragedy to tell it's story

And still you follow close enough to see
The shattered glass catch light
And shine back until some meaning appears
Or gets shaken from your hair
Into the shower drain
That morning you dressed and left
The driveway on shorn lug nuts
But why write the ending at all?
Why not just the middle?
Why not loop the whole thing always
On the wall and just watch
Backwards and forwards at the same time
Superimposed why death only and not
Endless directionless life
From birth unto it that blurs in
Tears at both ends but cancels out
Because it all does

One life and death echoing down the pipe
Before and after through time
And us too

Traffic merging on the road before
The pavements been laid