Strike another match
Babe, let?s watch it burn
They say the simple truth
Is the hardest to learn
Trouble has been beside me
At each and every turn
I guess it?s something here inside me
Fairly hard to discern
I don?t know who loves me
I only know who don?t
I don?t know who will
I sure as hell know who won?t
I can?t see the rainbow
I only see the rain
It's hard to see the beauty
Around so much pain
I can?t see the heavens
I can only see the sky
I?m a half empty kinda guy
Verse
Everything I wanted
Always slowly slipped away
Right when I need it most
It?s always been this way
I still feel like a clown
Standing here with the painted tears
I finally put that bottle down
After all these years
So now I'm finally clean
But I?m as dirty as I?ve been
Where it all went wrong
I couldn?t tell you how or when
So I?ll just keep on keeping on
Hope there'll come a day
These shackles will be gone
And I?ll be on my way
There ain?t no silver lining
I?ve searched low and high
Yeah I?m a half empty kinda guy
Bridge
I cannot recall
The last time I heard good news
I just ramble around
Singing these strange sort of blues
A gypsy read my cards to me
And she let out a yell
There was a hangman and a tower
and a high priestess jezebel
Then death oh death??why oh why
I?m a half empty kinda guy
Verse
Lately something strange
Has been happening to me
I wake nightly from slumber
Filled with fear and anxiety
Then I wrestle round for hours
With the voices in my head
Telling me what I should have done
And everything I should have said
If I wasn?t laughing?
You could bet that I would cry
Yeah I?m a half empty kinda guy