Can't Unask a Question Lyrics

Outside the sands

And inside the cells

I know ancient Cairo

Has some stories to tell

With a drum and a trumpet

And two cave figures kissin'

Still I'm too shy to look at it

And too scared to listen

You might wrap a mummy back up

Once that mummy is unmasked

But you can't unask a question

Once that question has been asked

Oils and clay, pencils and thread

You'll see that this gallery's

Full of color and sweat

Every name has a number below

Some less, some more

If you break it, you buy it

And you'll break it for sure

Sure you might glue back a statue

Once that statue has been cracked

But you can't unask a question

Once that question has been asked

You can try to float it towards the sky

In a hot-air balloon basket

Or to bury it beneath some prairie

In a fancy solid cherry casket

Digest or divorce it

Do your best to ignore it

But I'll never unhear it

And you'll never unask it

Hung where we slept

Shots made to last

Rings we skipped like rocks

Before our spirits were glass

Now we're searching so hard

For each shard that took flight

Seeing glimmers when they

Catch the sun just right

Piecing together any answers

That were just beyond our grasp

'Cause you can't unask a question

Once that question has been asked