[Intro] [Verse 1] You show up in a doorway looking like an answered prayer Two years too early or a lifetime late, either way I'm already elsewhere Got the ring in someone's pocket, got the truck already packed You couldn't have picked a worse Tuesday if you drew it off a map [Pre-Chorus] And I laugh 'cause what else can you do When the best thing in the room walks in on cue — too soon, too late, too you [Chorus] Strange timing, strange timing Right song, wrong radio, right match, wet fuse Strange timing, strange timing The good stuff always shows up in the worst pair of shoes I'd have loved you in another life, in another line at the store Strange timing knocking, strange timing — and I can't answer the door [Verse 2] We could've been a decade, could've been a standing joke The kind of old that finishes your sentence and your Coke But the calendar's a comedian, deadpan and unkind Hands you the whole world gift-wrapped on the one day you're not around to sign [Pre-Chorus] So I'll file you under almost, under what-a-shame A perfect little heartbreak with a stupid, lovely name [Chorus] Strange timing, strange timing Right song, wrong radio, right match, wet fuse Strange timing, strange timing The good stuff always shows up in the worst pair of shoes I'd have loved you in another life, in another line at the store Strange timing knocking, strange timing — and I can't answer the door [Bridge] Maybe in the next draft they'll move the scene around Put us in the same cheap diner 'fore the other shoes came down But I ain't cursing heaven, I ain't shaking at the sky Some things are just for knowing they exist — then waving them goodbye [Instrumental solo] [Final Chorus] Strange timing, strange timing Right door, wrong year, right heart, no time Strange timing, strange timing You were the best thing I never got to make mine I'd have loved you in another life, in a booth on the other side of town Strange timing knocking, strange timing — and I'm setting it back down [Outro]
