Song: The Middle

Let's start, let's start in the middle 
When the rush in the blood has dissolved
When most nights we get along fine 
And no one puts holes in the wall 

After the first mad kiss 
And the necessary ten thousand more 
But before your eyes laid still on your wine
As I cursed every vow that I swore 

Ah, the end is too hard
The beginning too sweet
Let's start where they meet in the middle 

When the forty-foot plunge is completed 
But before we're starving for air 
The arena still awaits our competing
But after we've learned how to push the spear 

The shining last half of the first act 
The agreeable first of the next 
My kiss not yet dry on your cheek 
The calm not yet aged to contempt 

Ah, the end is too hard
The beginning too sweet 
Let's start where they meet in the middle 

Let's start, let's start in the middle
Nurse our drinks on this warm winter night
The silences slowly enlarging 
The gangs slowly gathering to fight 

Ah, the end is too hard
The beginning too sweet 
Let's start where they meet in the middle 

2016