Impossible

I found that I was angry in the cool of the day
All the tall trees swaying, all I did not say
Though I managed all the details, and I made all those phone calls
And I wrote out all the emails and straightened out the front hall
It don't matter, it made no difference

All through our disagreement, there was a carnal on the fence
Put no walls around me
I will lay the stones myself
And I will lay down with my body, give nothing else
Still living with the feeling pent-up in my chest
My old lifelong companion, the one I know the best

Oh, I guess I got the hang of it, the impossible
You could say I moved right in with it, the impossible

You knew I felt unnatural in the blue light of dawn
I left the house of shadow, and my mind went on and on
On the long spool of highway, strange fragments of song
And all I can't get my way, everything that's still wrong

Oh, I guess I got the hang of it, the impossible
And I walk the endless boundaries of it
Just to know what you can't ever have, what is light, what shadow
Oh, I guess I always wanted the impossible (oh, ooh, oh, oh)

On time learned to rest on the fevered pitch
The change was so relentless, no time to get used to it
I had to get so ruthless
To cut right down to the quick
To wake at 6 a.m. and go along with all of it

But still I was so sensitive I could hardly even stand
Your simple acts of kindness, the gentle pressure of your hand
Glimpsed from the ferry, green swaths of land
Sleeping on the floor, I felt the ocean's movement