He says it was a few short days since they were two as oneShe says it had been weeks and weeks of nothing left undonePut the calendars together and they will not agreeOne of them is bending time so the story fits the sceneA few days here, a couple weeks right thereYou can't both be telling true, so one of you's somewhereThe dates don't line up, he loves me, loves me notLay the days in a row and you'll find the missing spotTwo truths and a lie, and the lie is in the clockOne account is moving time to make the picture lockThe dates don't line up, he loves me, loves me notAt first you think one's lying, just one of them is wrongBut run it back a third time and the whole thing reads like songCause if the dates were planned to clash so somebody looks badThen nobody mis-remembered, it was written like an adA few days here, a couple weeks right thereYou can't both be telling true, so one of you's somewhereThe dates don't line up, he loves me, loves me notLay the days in a row and you'll find the missing spotTwo truths and a lie, and the lie is in the clockOne account is moving time to make the picture lockThe dates don't line up, he loves me, loves me notWait, it's not that one of them got the dates wrong, it's that someone wrote the dates to fightSo I stopped trying to catch which one of them misspokeAnd started asking who would gain if the timeline was a jokeThe answer isn't him, and the answer isn't herIt's the thing that needs a fight to make the whole world click and stirThe dates don't line up, he loves me, loves me notAnd now I see it isn't just one careless thoughtTwo truths and a lie, and the lie was in the planThe dates were set to clash so the clip could hit and ranThe dates don't line up, he loves me, loves me not---
