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 and 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 love's sake
 And say yes, and make something together, something new
 In times of roses who amaze our now and here
 And friends in dresses, interference fits
 A thousand little ceremonies, we admit
 We dress up to confront the coming year
 There's something present that wasn't before
 We fade into the 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 began to dress to meet the year
 When did we all decide to give up?
 Since when do we say yes to love?
 He broke in and he'll take what he can
 It burns like a curse and it fits on 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 the teachings of love
 In the same way that shame changes love as 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
 And so—