Once you were a straight shot, a shiny quarter in a new slot,nNight would keep the dreams that you got for afternoonnThen telling the truth got so hard, we were dancing in the backyard,nOnce I knew the end and the start, but now that's throughnnNow you're broken and you don't understandnWhat is broken falls into place once againnnSo morning comes to clean up like nothing happened when your heart stopped,nLike all the lawyers calling all cops to wave days throughnJust close your eyes for this long, something's mixed up and something's gone,nOnly fingers can you count on, and one leaves twonnNow you're broken and you don't understandnWhat is broken falls into place once againnnAnd it's these most loved losses, they are just old coin tosses,nAnd these most loved losses are the hardest to carrynnI wish I were a freeway laid out clearer than a bright daynI'd run wide open down this causeway like brand newnSinging louder than the whole block, all my love would be a straight shotnNight would dream the dreams that I got, and so would younnBut I'm broken and I don't understandnWhat is broken falls into place once againnHand of kindness, come and gather me in like a rainstorm,nAgain and again and again,nI think I will break but I mend