[Verse 1] She spread the maps across the kitchen floor Every city she could find, every distant shore Said "I know exactly where the lost things go" But couldn't name the street outside her window He knocked on seventeen wrong doors that day His phone was dead, his sense of direction — anyway He said "I think it's Tuesday, or maybe late July" She said "Sit down, I'll find us. Eventually. I'll try." [Chorus] We are precisely somewhere Between the here and the almost there The clocks all say a different thing And north keeps wandering Longitude is just a guess And time zones are a polite suggestion at best We'll get there when we get there Wherever there may be [Verse 2] She traced her finger down a map of 1842 Said "This town still exists, the name just moved right through" He said "My grandmother was born in a country that dissolved" She said "See? Location is a problem to be solved" The kettle boiled at half past an uncertain hour The sunlight came in sideways with an unseasonal shower He said "I think we're west of where we started out" She said "That's the most accurate thing you've said, no doubt" [Chorus] We are precisely somewhere Between the here and the almost there The clocks all say a different thing And north keeps wandering Longitude is just a guess And time zones are a polite suggestion at best We'll get there when we get there Wherever there may be [Bridge] Every map she owns has edges Every clock eventually forgets Every country shifts its borders in the night But she found the one fixed point In all this beautiful chaos Standing in her doorway Backlit and entirely lost [Final Chorus] We are precisely somewhere And maybe that's enough to know The clocks can say whatever clocks say We're not in any hurry to go Longitude is just a guess And time is just the shape of where you've been We'll get there when we get there And darling, we're already in [Outro] Somewhere east of certainty Somewhere west of knowing why Precisely here Precisely now Under an approximate sky
