Some Assembly Required

The sky was a ridiculous, insulting shade of blue A perfect afternoon to split the fucking world in two A blind, unguided rocket from a ridgeline in the east Came crashing on the front gate to feed the local beast The blast wave left a high-pitched ringing in my ear And turned a crowd of locals to a bloody souvenir The dust began to settle on the gravel and the street And left a dozen different puzzles scattered at my feet We're putting together a jigsaw puzzle in the dirt Trying to figure out whose arm belongs to whose shirt It's a scavenger hunt for the innocent and small Scraping what is left of them right off the concrete wall Yeah, it's a beautiful day to sweep the driveway clean The most colorful confetti that I have ever seen I found a tiny sneaker, it was flashing in the heel It's funny how the plastic outlasts the way you feel I picked up half a backpack with the cartoon on the strap And the pieces of a little kid who just laid down to nap I'm matching up appendages like socks inside a drawer Because nobody tells you that's the poetry of war You bag the meat, you hose the street You wash away the stain And pretend you aren't holding a piece of someone's brain We're putting together a jigsaw puzzle in the dirt Trying to figure out whose arm belongs to whose shirt It's a scavenger hunt for the innocent and small Scraping what is left of them right off the concrete wall Yeah, it's a beautiful day to sweep the driveway clean The most colorful confetti that I have ever seen That I have ever seen You want a tragedy, you want a crying violin I just need to know what bag to put this femur in The mothers and the fathers and the daughters and the sons Just a pile of twisted logic from the unguided ones And all the king's horses and all the king's men Are never putting these kids back together again We tied off the black bags and lined them in a row A terrifying harvest with nowhere else to go We took a yellow fire hose and washed the gravel down A little pink river flowing gently through the town The gate is just a gate again The gravel is just stone And I am just a garbage man Collecting up the bone