Half Empty Kinda Guy

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

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

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
Yeah I’m a half empty kinda guy

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