Interference Fits

I never wanted any children

Just a nice apartment with open air

And big windows and all the flowers

And I could only ever see myself there

Yeah, I guess I was too hard for my own good

And then my friends began to fall in love

First with themselves, then with each other

I met my despair at midday light

And it was amazing, and I almost cried

Nothing that comes and goes is you

But you can compensate for loves sake

And say yes,and make something together

Something new

In times of roses who amazes now and here

And friends in dresses, interference fits

A thousand little ceremonies, we admit

We dress up to confront the coming year

Theres something present that wasn't before

We fade into background, man

Of filtered light where and when we can

And live out a thousand weird lives

In conversations of churches and veils and wives

And it makes me strong and unsinkable

It makes me sick, it makes the water undrinkable

It feels like singing badly in the clear

Since we dress to meet the year

When did we all decide to give up?

Since when do we say to love?

He broke in and he'll take what he can

It burns likes a curse and it fits in my hand

A cluster of opals and diamonds and scenes

Pay you a penny and stay where I stand

Trading the diamonds for some golden band

God, what am I doing with somebody's son?

In the same way a bulldozer studies an orchid

Yes, I am a student of love

In the same way that shame changes love and we know it

Like your body moves into mine

And outgrows it

And splits me from mouth down to thigh like a gun

What am I doing with somebody's son?

We knew better, we knew we would break

We gave it until we gave up

And we know that we compensate for love's sake

Now we say yes

We say yes

And so-