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I do not think you got the words right. Is it on Youtube? Perhaps it was "For a minute I couldn't tell how it would fall out." "To fall out" can mean "to happen."
I have found it from the lyrics of Birdy song "1901":
Counting all different ideas driftin' away Past and present they don't matter, not if you just sort it out Watch her moving in elliptical pattern Think it's not what you say, what you say is way too complicated For a minute thought I couldn't tell how to fall out
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The lyrics do not make any sense, and they aren't supposed to, I think. I have no idea what "For a minute thought I couldn't tell how to fall out" means. She has used the words in ways that are not standard, to the point of nonsense. I think you are supposed to make of i