Better Half Lyrics

Sometimes the work-a-day world seems to be splitting me down the middle

Part of me wants to be a big success and the other part wants to play fiddle

Part of me wants to get drunk every night and float down a river of waste

Part of me is writing a symphony rhythmic and sweet to the taste

And it's true that I've slept in an alley or two but now I'm sleeping where I want to be

It took a better half like you to bring out the better half of me

I hear it from my single friends nowadays they say

What is it like in prison?

I raise an eyebrow look back at them and say

It feels like I'm finally living

One of my sides is still one of the guys and I don't have to bury the past

While the other side is playing a symphony soaked in magic and things that will last

And it's true that I've passed out cold singing the blues

But I've paid all my dues and I'm free

It took a better half like you to bring out the better half of me

When everyone is taking a piece of my life and there's nothing left that I want to share

Clowns to the left and snakes to the right and vultures above in the air

A piece of my heart keeps on falling apart while another piece is breathing in rhyme

Writing a poem and a symphony worn out but not out of time

And it's true that I knew a blue woman or two and I sometimes I'd stay out until three

It took a better half like you to bring out the better half of me

I imagine we're driving a customized van through the wheat fields of Kansas at noon

The super cell growing the April wind blowing Bob Dylan still sewing a tune

With half of my mind on the highway signs and half of my mind on your thighs

Writing our weather-worn symphony tornadoes alive in your eyes

And it's true that you knew I was splitting in two like a lightning struck middle-aged tree

It took a better half like you to bring out the better half of me