Lyric

You brought me soup in the summer

I laughed but I kept the spoon

Some care arrives off timing

Still softens up the room

I needed words in the doorway

You fixed the kitchen light

It wasn’t what I asked for

But it held back part of the night

Maybe we both meant well

From opposite sides of the wire

You missed me by an inch

But you tried with both hands

I heard the love arrive

Where I couldn’t understand

Your jacket on my shoulders

When I said I wasn’t cold

I hated being read wrong

Then missed it when it was gone

Some signals bend sideways

Some hearts speak in chores

Some people say sorry

By checking all the doors

You missed me by an inch

But you stayed close enough

I learned to hear the care

Inside the wrong kind of love