“Scars and Stitches” is the sixth song on Guster’s debut LP Parachute. It saw its peak live performance during the Goldfly era, but since 2000, the band has only performed it at their 2013 Brooklyn Bowl shows commemorating Parachute’s 20th anniversary.
[Verse 1: Ryan Miller, Adam Gardner, Both]
Can you remember what the future held?
A little candy ring and a mystic ocean's shell
They were anesthetized and slowly washed away
Left all the poison in the sands in which I played
[Chorus: Ryan Miller/Miller & Adam Gardner]
I don't mind falling down and scraping up my knees
Scars and stitches always fade and only strengthen me
With my eyes as wide as pearls my only centerpiece
Is taken like the dead man's urn and tossed into the sea
[Verse 2: Ryan Miller, Adam Gardner, Both]
Write me a letter
And dot your I's
And cross your T's
Nothing was everything to me
Under the monster's claws and in between his teeth
Was the shadow and a silhouette of what I'd thought I'd be
[Chorus: Ryan Miller/Miller & Adam Gardner]
I don't mind falling down and scraping up my knees
Scars and stitches always fade and only strengthen me
With my eyes as wide as pearls my only centerpiece
Is floating on the ocean's bed and floats there endlessly
Well it's taken like the dead man's urn and tossed into the sea
Scars & Stitches was written by Ryan Miller.
Scars & Stitches was produced by Mike Denneen.
Guster released Scars & Stitches on Mon Nov 14 1994.