Impossible Objects Lyrics

I sat behind you in AP Statistics

Charting my daydreams, their characteristics

In each one you gave me impossible objects

Like time on a string, an elephant's wing

For all of their beauty, unspeakable, nameless

Their uncertain purpose, so happy and aimless

I feel that I know you, if only in dreams

But I fail to see us intersecting

So much for field trips, we all went to see

A local professor slash actuary

He told us in five years, "One of you'll be dead"

But he didn't say who, nor exactly when

So laughing and halfway scared shitless and sensible

We settled for topics less incomprehensible

Like where to get lunch and who's willing to drive

We all need to be back here by 12:25

Had I known you better, perhaps I could say

More closely what happened on that July day

The car rolling backwards, impossible object

Pinned life to the fence in front of your friends

That night we got high and went to the movies

We talked about nothing, tried not to feel gloomy

Saw M. Night Shyamalan's live-action catastrophe

We wished we had seen Toy Story Part III

It always surprised me to think you were older

Impossible objects you drew on your folder

Then there was your mustache, spread thin when you smiled

There's no sense in shaving the face of a child

It's been nearly nine years since that July day

And each day you've flashed through my mind in some way

No justice in dying when numbers are king

Maybe that's why I cling to your elephant's wing