The Missing Piece

Verse 1

Plastic

Grey bins on the floor

I sorted them by the color of the plastic

The red ones

The blue ones

The little tiny translucent studs

Small

Hard edges under my heel

One wrong move makes a grown man feel small

Chorus

Brick by brick we build it

Stud by stud we hold it

Snap them together

Lock them forever

Just a plastic town for a plastic man

Yeah we build it because we can

Brick by brick

Stud by stud

Post-Chorus

Click click

Stack it up

Click click

Stack it up

Verse 2

Instruction book

Flat on the dusty rug

I am lost inside a glossy instruction book

Yellow heads

Grinning through the paint

Tiny hands holding tools like yellow heads

Yellow heads

Yellow hands

One piece missing from the plans

Lost

Somewhere in the carpet

The piece I need is probably lost

Chorus

Brick by brick we build it

Stud by stud we hold it

Snap them together

Lock them forever

Just a plastic town for a plastic man

Yeah we build it because we can

Brick by brick

Stud by stud

Bridge

Tall towers

Tiny windows

Tough luck

If the baseplate bends

Keep it steady

Keep it straight

I built a world inside a crate

A world I made

A world I saved

A world I keep

Chorus

Brick by brick we build it

Stud by stud we hold it

Snap them together

Lock them forever

Just a plastic town for a plastic man

Yeah we build it because we can

Brick by brick

Stud by stud

Outro

One more kit

One more box

On the shelf

By itself

Plastic world

Click click

Click click