《Your Woman Misses Her Man(Album Version)》歌词

[00:00:16] The 50 Percent Theory of Life

[00:00:17] I believe in the 50 percent theory

[00:00:18] Half the time things are better than normal

[00:00:23] The other half they re worse

[00:00:24] I believe life is a pendulum swing

[00:00:25] It takes time and experience to understand what normal is

[00:00:29] And that gives me the perspective to deal with the surprises of the future

[00:00:32] Let 's benchmark the parameters：yes I will die

[00:00:33] I 've dealt with the deaths of both parents

[00:00:34] A best friend a beloved boss and cherished pets

[00:00:36] Some of these deaths have been violent before my eyes

[00:00:38] Or slow and agonizing Bad stuff

[00:00:40] And it belongs at the bottom of the scale

[00:00:45] Then there are those high points：

[00:00:46] Romance and marriage to the right person

[00:00:47] Having a child and doing those Dad things like coaching my son 's baseball team

[00:00:52] Paddling around the creek in the boat while he 's swimming with the dogs

[00:00:56] Discovering his compassion so deep it manifests even in his kindness to snails

[00:01:00] His imagination so vivid he builds a spaceship from a scattered pile of Legos

[00:01:12] But there is a vast meadow of life in the middle

[00:01:15] Where the bad and the good flip flop acrobatically

[00:01:20] This is what convinces me to believe in the 50 percent theory

[00:01:26] One spring I planted corn too early in a bottomland so flood prone that neighbors laughed

[00:01:33] I felt chagrined at the wasted effort

[00:01:34] Summer turned brutalthe worst heat wave and drought in my lifetime

[00:01:40] The air conditioned died the well went dry

[00:01:42] The marriage ended the job lost the money gone

[00:01:45] I was living lyrics from a country tunemusic I loathed

[00:01:48] Only a surging Kansas City Royals team buoyed my spirits

[00:01:49] Looking back on that horrible summer

[00:01:51] I soon understood that all succeeding good things merely offset the bad

[00:01:56] Worse than normal wouldn 't last long I am owed and savor the halcyon times

[00:02:01] The reinvigorate me for the next nasty surprise and offer assurance that can thrive

[00:02:11] The 50 percent theory even helps me see hope beyond my Royals 'recent slump

[00:02:15] A field of struggling rookies sown so that some year soon we can reap an October harvest

[00:02:22] For that on blistering summer the ground moisture was just right

[00:02:25] Planting early allowed pollination before heat withered the tops

[00:02:29] And the lack of rain spared the standing corn from floods

[00:02:30] That winter my crib overflowed with cornfat

[00:02:32] Healthy three to a stalk ears filled with kernels from heel to tipwhile my neighbors '

[00:02:34] Fields yielded only brown empty husks

[00:02:37] Although plantings past may have fallen below the 50 percent expectation

[00:02:44] And they probably will again in the future

[00:02:48] I am still sustained by the crop that flourishes during the drought