Halfway There Lyrics

There's a half-moon smilin' over Half Moon Bay

I'm eatin' oysters on the half shell for my birthday

You see, I just turned fifty, but it don't seem fair

'Cause no matter how you slice it, man, I'm halfway there

I was sayin' this morning to my better half

Thinkin' 'bout half-lives makes me laugh

Don't need carbon dating to tell my age

Just look at all the ways the world has changed

We've gone from bobby socks to X-Box

JFK to Y2K

Playboy to cyberporn

From Ozzie Nelson to Osborne

Now I'm starin' at a clock readin' half-past

Feelin' like my efforts have been half-assed

Like I'm playin' in some half-hearted halftime show

Stuck a half-beat behind the video

Wonder where those old bands and their studios went

We went from half-track to four bits to 50 Cent

By the time your new recording is all complete

Odds are fifty-fifty, it's obsolete

Now there's a half-pint dude with a saxophone

Blowin' hemidemisemiquaver half-tones

Got some semi-sweet chocolate and a demijohn

And my semicentennial is on

We've gone from black lights to terabytes

Hash pipes to half-pipes

Flintstones to South Park

From Dick Clark to… Dick Clark?

Wait a minute

The glass is half-empty or it's half-full

And this song is semi-autobiographical

So I'll write a nice ending to start my year

And be the happiest fella in the hemisphere

'Cause there's a half-moon smilin' over Half Moon Bay

I'm squeezin' lotta livin' into every day

If I die tomorrow, then my epitaph'll say

He lived a full life, though he only got half