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

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

(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

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

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

We’re just half a dream away
Sitting on our fences
Building up defences
Making up rules by which you play

We’re just half way down the road
Staking our postions
But stupid supersitions
Only give fools too heavy a load

The magpie screeched and the windows shattered
Her body’s bruised but her soul’s not battered
The fireman tried but the hose was broken
The cupboards bare but the door needs closing

We spend half our time away
From being where we want to
And seeing who it’s fun to
Not blaming ourselves for our mistakes

We spend half a dream away
Looking out of windows
Waiting for a signal
Waiting for night to close the day

The tree was bare but the birds were singing
The milk turned sour and my thirst needs quenching
The meat was dead and I need me feeding
The room was cold but the night was freezing

The rainbow frowned when the sun was laughing
A baby’s snatched on a beatiful morning
A dog runs wild and the brakes are screaming
A church on fire is struck by lightining
The dead man’s hands had beautiful fingers
The princess frowned at her lovers mistress
She went insane and poisoned the children
A teacher’s drowned and a child is laughing

I have found a lack of sympathy
for my chemically dependant brothers and sisters.
It disturbs me my eye rolling attitudes,
I search through my studies of gods,
I search for the compassion within me.
And I only have it half a day a week.
I try and I try and I try and I try,
having myself cross the fucking death junk line,
the forcid cock the back hand of love,
I know, I know, I know I, know,
if I can get my shit clean after all the shit I seen,
if I can still fall in love,
and laugh my head off at my life,
and my hard hard lessons.
Then why don?t you you rich 35 yr. old junkie fuck,
I want compassion for you, but my friend I have none!
You bear your victimization like a cross, a crutch.
Your lazy, its easier than to cop out than to rise above,
believe me, believe you me,
I can’t believe you but just to be nice?
right now is that half a day a week,
that ill make a search for compassion.
For you, poor you, you fucking white millionaire!
My eyes are aching from roll.

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

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

Hakuna Matata! What a wonderful phrase

Hakuna Matata! Ain’t no passing craze

It means no worries for the rest of your days

It’s our problem-free philosophy

Hakuna Matata!

Hakuna Matata?

Yeah. It’s our motto!

What’s a motto?

Nothing. What’s a-motto with you?

Those two words will solve all your problems

That’s right. Take Pumbaa here
Why, when he was a young warthog…

When I was a young wart hog

Very nice

Thanks

He found his aroma lacked a certain appeal
He could clear the savannah after every meal

I’m a sensitive soul though I seem thick-skinned
And it hurt that my friends never stood downwind
And oh, the shame He was ashamed
Thought of changin’ my name What’s in a name?
And I got downhearted How did ya feel?
Everytime that I…

Hey! Pumbaa! Not in front of the kids!
Oh. Sorry

Hakuna Matata! What a wonderful phrase
Hakuna Matata! Ain’t no passing craze

It means no worries for the rest of your days

It’s our problem-free philosophy
Hakuna Matata!
Hakuna Matata! Hakuna matata!
Hakuna Matata! Hakuna matata!
Hakuna Matata! Hakuna matata!
Hakuna Matata! Hakuna–

It means no worries for the rest of your days

It’s our problem-free philosophy
Hakuna Matata!
(Repeats)

I say “Hakuna”

I say “Matata”