Scattered

don't you go looking so surprised
baby, don't you look so stunned
didn't i tell you that a cold november'd come?
and deliver the leaves from green to red
to blowing in the wind stone dead

well i never used to notice this awful quiet
and fall was just the calm before the next spring riot
of wildflowers and lunatic rivers
sweat jumping off of the skin of love givers

scattered leaves don't lie
aw' now baby, baby, quit your cryin'
like everything that ever mattered, scit-scat scattered
like every love word you heard
but that's just the way when you walk your days
in the beauty of this world