Half A Man Lyrics - Singles - Austin Lounge Lizards

(Hank Card/Conrad Deisler) 

I was one tough nut until the day you made me crack 

I was one tough customer until you paid me back 

I was one tough cookie 'til I crumbled in your hand 

Since that day I'm half a man 

I drive my old nine-wheeler down I-two-and-a-half 

The other truckers pity me so they try not to laugh 

I pull off in Yreka and check into Motel Three 

They've always got a little room for me 

Chorus: 

Half a man; I'm half a man 

Sometimes I try to do the best I can 

I know that on my own foot someday I'll have to stand 

But right now I don't know how 

Because I'm only half a man 

I play solitaire 'til dawn with a deck of twenty-six 

You might think I'm crazy but that's how I get my kicks 

I listen to Rush Limbaugh 'cause he helps to ease my pain 

He makes lots of sense if you're a man with half a brain 

I buy a tenth of whiskey and a cold three-pack of beer 

I drink 'til I see single when I gaze into my mirror 

I know that through that looking glass is where I'll have to be 

Reunited with the better half of me 

Chorus 

Someday I'll find a woman and a half and take her hand 

But 'til then I don't know when 

I will be more than half a man