Call me morbid, call me pale
I’ve spent six years on your trail
Six long years
On your trail

Call me morbid, call me pale
I’ve spent six years on your trail
Six full years of my life on your trail


And if you have five seconds to spare
Then I’ll tell you the story of my life :
Sixteen, clumsy and shy
I went to London and I
I booked myself in at the Y … W.C.A.
I said : “I like it here – can I stay ?
I like it here – can I stay ?
Do you have a vacancy
For a Back-scrubber?”


She was left behind, and sour
And she wrote to me, equally dour
She said : “In the days when you were
Hopelessly poor
I just liked you more…”


And if you have five seconds to spare
Then I’ll tell you the story of my life :
Sixteen, clumsy and shy
I went to London and I
I booked myself in at the Y … W.C.A.
I said : “I like it here – can I stay ?
I like it here – can I stay ?
And do you have a vacancy
For a Back-scrubber ?”


Call me morbid, call me pale
I’ve spent too long on your trail
Far too long
Chasing your tail
Oh …


And if you have five seconds to spare
Then I’ll tell you the story of my life :
Sixteen, clumsy and shy
That’s the story of my life
Sixteen, clumsy and shy
The story of my life
That’s the story of my life
That’s the story of my life
That’s the story of my life
The story of my life
That’s the story of my life
That’s the story of my life
That’s the story of my life
That’s the story of my life
That’s the story of my life
That’s the story …

This could be the saddest dusk
I’ve ever seen
Turn to a miracle
high alive
My mind is racing
As it always will
My hand is tired my heart aches
I’m half a world away here
my head sworn
To go it alone
And hold it along
Haul it along
And hold it
Go it alone
Hold it along and hold, hold.

This lonely deep sit hollow
I’m half a world
Half the world away
My shoes are gone
My life spent
I had too much to drink
I didn’t think
and I I didn’t think of you
I guess that’s all I needed
To go it alone
And hold it along
Haul it along
And hold it
Blackbirds backwards forwards and fall and hold hold.

Oh this lonely world is wasted
Pathetic eyes high alive
blind to the tide that turns the sea
This storm it came up strong
it shook the trees
And blew away our fear
I couldn’t even hear

To go it alone
And hold it along
Haul it along
And hold it
To go it alone
And hold it along
Haul it along
To go it alone
And hold it along
Haul it along
And hold it
Blackbirds backwards forwards and fall and hold hold.

This could be the saddest dusk
I’ve ever seen
Turn to a miracle
high alive
My mind is racing
As it always will
My hands tired my heart aches
I’m half a world away and go.

someone’s mother falls to the sidewalk
on the next street someone looks up
in the cathedral a burst of laughter
in another city the pigeons fly up and scatter.
someone puts down in a New York subway
a newspaper picked up in Australia
for each event the inarticulate glory
the equal and opposite will tell the story

HALF ANGEL HALF EAGLE
ONE EYE ON THE WORLD
HALF ANGEL HALF EAGLE
ONE EYE ON THE WORLD
BE READY

five intelligent minds huddled in a fancy restaurant
all that brain power bent on…..
WHAT SHALL I? WHAT SHALL I?…

one lone car cruising the warehouse district
one lone figure shuffling along the wall
two shadows leaning from the backseat window
someone’s mother is about to fall
fuckinghonkyniggerjewwaspjapdagofag
fuckinghomelesspreacherdykecabbiefuckingunionscab
GET OUT GO BACK A STORM IS COMING
(a shudder in the colour of the warehouse wall)

HALF ANGEL HALF EAGLE
ONE EYE ON THE WORLD
HALF ANGEL HALF EAGLE
ONE EYE ON THE WORLD
BE READY

have a good time but don’t relax
have a good time but be on guard
you don’t need that much not that much
get the wings up ready to go
get the wings up ready to go
what shall I? what shall I?

a shudder in the colour of the warehouse wall

This big old queen was standing
On the corner of the street
He waved his hanky at me
As I went rolling by
I pulled the truck up on the sidewalk
And I climbed down from the cab
With my tire-chain and my knife
As I approached him
He was trembling like a bird
I raised the chain above my head
He said, “Please, before you kill me
Might I have one final word?”
And this is what he said:
“I am but Half A Man,
Half A Man I’d like to be a dancer
But I’m much too large
Half A Man, Half A Man
I’m an object for your pity
Not your rage”
Oh, the strangest feeling’s sweeping over me
Both my speech and manner have become much more refined
I said, “Oh, what is this feeling?
What is wrong with me?”
She said, “Girl, it happens all the time ”
And you are Half A Man,
Half A Man Look,
you’re walking and you’re talking Like a fag.”
Half A Man,
I am Half A Man Holy Jesus, what a drag

I’m only half a man
When I’m not by your side
I try to make a plan
And I don’t try to hide

So come on over closer to me
And everything will be just like it should be

Why don’t you help me
Please don’t stand on your pride
I feel so empty
Why don’t you let me inside

So come on over closer to me
And everything will be just like it should be

You (you, you, you)
Set my soul on fire
You (you, you, you)
Fill me with desire
When ever I’m near you

I’m only half a man
When I’m not by your side
I try to make a plan
And I don’t try to hide

So come on over closer to me
And everything will be just like it should be

(Anthony Smith)

I can chop wood from dusk till dawn
I can swing a hammer till the daylights gone
I can build a barn,I can make a home with these two hands
But if I didn’t have all your love I’d be half a man

I can fly planes up in the big sky
Blaze a trail though the woods in my 4 wheel drive
With a team of horses or an old John Deere,I can plow this land
But if I didn’t have all your love I’d be half the man

I can hang the stars,I can rope the moon
Walk across Texas in these cowboy boots
I can run a train when it runs outta track
With the weight of the world laid across my back
But life still wouldn’t be worth a damn
If I didn’t have all your love I’d be half the man

I could build a fire,usin’ nothin’ but a stick
If I put my mind to it,there ain’t much I can’t fix
I can read and count,I can figure things out if I’m given the chance
But if I didn’t have all your love I’d be half the man

I can hang the stars,I can rope the moon
Walk across Texas in these cowboy boots
I can run a train when it runs outta track
With the weight of the world laid across my back
But life still wouldn’t be worth a damn
If I didn’t have all your love I’d be half the man

I can hang the stars,I can rope the moon
Walk across Texas in these cowboy boots
I can run a train when it runs outta track
With the weight of the world laid across my back
But life still wouldn’t be worth a damn
If I didn’t have all your love I’d be half the man

I’d be half the man

Little Geo is a friend of mine
We get some money and we buy a cheap wine
Sit on the corner and have a holiday
Hide the bottle when the cop goes by
Talk about women and lie, lie, lie
Oh, my other world is just a half a mile away.

Wait for mama to turn out the light
Crawl on the roof and then I hit the night
I should be sleeping tonight but I just can’t stay
I’ve given everybody so much time
Now I need a moment that’s mine…
Oh my other world is just a half a mile away

It’s just a half a mile away

Angelina save a place for me
I’ve been livin’ someone else’s life and now I’ve got to be free
Turn your transistor on and let the music play
I try to keep the family satisfied
But there’s gotta be more to life than just try, try, try
Oh my other world is only a half a mile away

It’s just a half a mile away

sometimes i wish we had a short term memory just enough to recognize each other’s face
it would be the same old stories but you’re hanging onto every single word i have to say
and to the world i’m not that clever but you would stay with me forever
i’d keep your friends from reminding, reminding you to

save yourself, leave me behind you would if you had half a mind

i’d tell you every day’s your birthday and every gift i bring could be the same
or how i stood beside you at a shotgun wedding and the child we once would love but never came
hearing stories that were never you would stay with me forever

but i’d forget to make money and you’d forget to

save yourself, leave me behind you would if you had half a mind (how vulnerable you are)
write a note to remind you you would if you had half a mind (how effortless to stay together)

for these ties you may have severed now you’ll stay with me forever

and so you write on your forehead, or better yet you engrave
so when you look in the mirror, well you won’t forget to

save yourself, leave me behind you would if you had half a mind (how vulnerable you are)
write a note to remind you you would if you had half a mind (how effortless to stay together)

if we had no memory whatsoever we would stay right here forever

When I hand my love in
I’ll be done
A handed glove
Hides the door

Half a chance
Half a chance
We still
Have a chance

Mr. Full, Mr. Have
Kills Mr. Empty Hand

Half a chance
Half a chance
We still
Have half a chance

You said we’d light the firmament
You said our love was permanent
You said we’d stick through thick and thin
Through up and down, through lose and win
But comes the first sign of stormy weather
You’re packin’ your bags in the trance
But you gotta give

(Chorus)
Half a chance
Half a chance
Half a chance
To our romance

you can’t pretend it’s Camelot
Then start to run when things get hot
When love explodes there’s always heat
There’s always bitter with the sweet
There’s always times when your legs feel broken
But you still don’t drop out of the dance
You gotta give

Half a chance
Half a chance
Half a chance
To our romance