They Can't Tell

Did you hear about the one with the ship left at sea

It ran on old fumes & brutal honesty

So Murphy, can you hurry, got a prophecy

To foretell

And did you hear about the drama about a ship torn asunder

This hushed and repressed old angst-laced hunger

This might've been cute at a decade younger

But they can't tell

They can't tell, they can't tell

Got no right to raise no hell

Just wrong place, wrong time, wrong face, wrong mind, wrong call

So give me room to ruminate and block up the aisle

The trip of a meter can reroute to a mile

My friends can walk through if I can reconcile

But they can't tell

Strolled up to the bar & by happenstance

You leaned next to a guy who you knew at first glance

Told me "find a cute girl & ask her to dance"

Must not sell

How I was in the picture, but I was never seen

Said "okay" with a mutter as my stomach turned green

Drove ten miles to this club through a spiderwebbed screen

But they can't tell

They can't tell, they can't tell

Got no right to raise no hell

Just wrong place, wrong time, wrong face, wrong mind, wrong call

So I remember the costumes and the tossed-off remarks

All the blinding strobe lights that toss you into the dark

Now just take her advice & find the next spark

Cause they can't tell

They can't tell

And you won't tell

Oh, so they can't tell