Note: The singer is Ariella Schreck, who was about 8 years old at the time.

Every child learns in school how to play the game and obey the rules.  After each game, you have to pick up the pieces before you can play it again.

It’s the same if you make a mistake, spill the milk or drop the plate. When it breaks you have to pick up the pieces and start all over again.

Winds may blow – rivers flow – might be a hurricane or a tornado. When it all breaks you have to pick up the pieces and start all over again.

Some people live in a little shack; some in a house that’s big and fat. But when the earth quakes, and everything breaks, you have to put all the pieces together again.

It’s the same if you make a mistake, spill the milk or drop the plate. When it breaks you have to pick up the pieces and start all over again.

Winds may blow – rivers flow – might be a hurricane or a tornado. When it all breaks you have to pick up the pieces and start all over again

© 1997 by Myron Schreck

Ella at tap dancing class, the Fall of 1996