I Can’t Quite Make It Fit

Lyrics

She says, “Baby, it’s simple,” with a look in her eye Then she changes the weather while I’m still asking why One minute she’s thunder, next minute she’s silk I’m standing in the kitchen turning coffee into milk

She says I don't listen, I say she talks in smoke Every answer's got a sparkle and a hidden little joke I’m trying to read the signal, trying to catch the drift But every time I grab the handle, she gives it one more twist

I can’t quite make it fit No matter how I turn it This piece of my life got a fire in it, baby And I can’t quite make it fit Her love, this world, my mind I’m looking for the edges, but they keep on moving And I can’t quite make it fit

Now the TV keeps shouting like it knows what’s true Everybody’s drawing lines telling me what to do Left side, right side, wrong side, righteous Everybody’s so certain, that’s what frightens us

And my job feels shaky, and my back feels old Got a head full of questions and a hand I can’t quite hold Thought I’d have a map by now, thought I’d know the way But I’m improvising dinner just to get through one more day

I can’t quite make it fit No matter how I turn it This piece of my life got a fire in it, baby And I can’t quite make it fit Her love, this world, my mind I’m looking for the edges, but they keep on moving And I can’t quite make it fit

Maybe that’s the trouble Maybe that’s the trick Life ain’t a clean line, baby It’s a jump and a slip

She ain’t a puzzle This world ain’t square Maybe all this meaning Was never sitting there

Maybe love is crooked Maybe truth can bend Maybe all I really need Is to stop needing it to end

I can’t quite make it fit But I’m dancing with it anyway Got one shoe on the ceiling And one foot in yesterday

I can’t quite make it fit But I’m laughing in the strain She’s a beautiful mystery And this world’s a leaky brain

I can’t quite make it fit My plans, my heart, my pride But the groove gets a little better When I quit trying to force the ride

I can’t quite make it fit No, I can’t quite make it fit But if it don’t come together clean I’ll never make it fit