Lyrics

Halfway (c) 2012 Ken Kahn

So this is something that I want that I should not be wanting
Although your voice it sounds like coming home
It's something that I'll never have, but yet there is this haunting
To stir the memories when I'm alone.

The band packs up, the tide goes out, and look, here come the stars,
And I am sitting, staring at the sky.
An empty stage, a solo act for lonely slide guitar
A love that never was and never dies.

I never saw it coming, no I realized too late - like a midnight train appearing at the bend.
Halfway 'cross the trestle and I'm halfway to my fate
Never make the other side or feel at peace again.

Mondays are the hardest, but each Friday's pretty blue
And I think of you and maybe I pretend
My life is full and empty as you say we'll see it through
I can't go on nor see how this can end.

So here's the road less traveled and its full of joy and pain.
And now I see it's poorly understood.
Some days I'd close the gate and come back down the way I came,
If I thought it would do me any good.

No, I never saw it coming, no I realized too late - like a midnight train appearing at the bend.
Halfway 'cross the trestle and I'm halfway to my fate
Never make the other side or feel at peace again.

The truth is pretty plain to see, if we don't turn away.
I know you inside out and not at all.
Halfway 'cross the high wire and I make myself look down.
Your name upon my lips now as I fall.

So this is something that I want that I should not be wanting
Although your voice it sounds like coming home
It's something that I'll never have, but still there'll be this haunting
And now I talk out loud when I'm alone..