10 lb. Heart (Album Version)-Chely Wright

[00:00.000] 作词 : Kenya Walker/Nick Pellegrino/Nick Pelligrino/Kenya Slaughter Walker [00:01.000] 作曲 : Kenya Walker/Nick Pellegrino/Nick Pelligrino/Kenya Slaughter Walker [00:03.492]The 50-Percent Theory of Life [00:07.518]I believe in the 50-percent theory. [00:09.578]Half the time things are better than normal; [00:15.77]the other half,they re worse. [00:17.375]I believe life is a pendulum swing. [00:21.500]It takes time and experience to understand what normal is, [00:27.251]and that gives me the perspective to deal with the surprises of the future. [00:33.627]Let ’s benchmark the parameters:yes,I will die. [00:37.750]I ’ve dealt with the deaths of both parents, [00:41.126]a best friend,a beloved boss and cherished pets. [00:42.610]Some of these deaths have been violent,before my eyes, [00:46.670]or slow and agonizing.Bad stuff, [00:49.857]and it belongs at the bottom of the scale. [00:53.546]Then there are those high points: [00:56.110]romance and marriage to the right person; [00:57.100]having a child and doing those Dad things like coaching my son ’s baseball team, [01:06.790]paddling around the creek in the boat while he ’s swimming with the dogs, [01:11.974]discovering his compassion so deep it manifests even in his kindness to snails, [01:15.912]his imagination so vivid he builds a spaceship from a scattered pile of Legos. [01:20.225]But there is a vast meadow of life in the middle, [01:20.940]where the bad and the good flip-flop acrobatically. [01:22.822]This is what convinces me to believe in the 50-percent theory. [01:26.882]One spring I planted corn too early in a bottomland so flood-prone that neighbors laughed. [01:31.131]I felt chagrined at the wasted effort. [01:33.322]Summer turned brutal---the worst heat wave and drought in my lifetime. [01:37.381]The air-conditioned died;the well went dry; [01:39.818]the marriage ended;the job lost;the money gone. [01:42.820]I was living lyrics from a country tune---music I loathed. [01:46.72]Only a surging Kansas City Royals team buoyed my spirits. [01:48.944]Looking back on that horrible summer, [01:51.68]I soon understood that all succeeding good things merely offset the bad. [01:54.696]Worse than normal wouldn ’t last long.I am owed and savor the halcyon times. [01:59.443]The reinvigorate me for the next nasty surprise and offer assurance that can thrive. [02:03.882]The 50-percent theory even helps me see hope beyond my Royals ’recent slump, [02:08.382]a field of struggling rookies sown so that some year soon we can reap an October harvest. [02:13.446]For that on blistering summer,the ground moisture was just right, [02:16.945]planting early allowed pollination before heat withered the tops, [02:19.945]and the lack of rain spared the standing corn from floods. [02:23.258]That winter my crib overflowed with corn---fat, [02:23.816]healthy three-to-a-stalk ears filled with kernels from heel to tip---while my neighbors ’ [02:27.502]fields yielded only brown,empty husks. [02:29.378]Although plantings past may have fallen below the 50-percent expectation, [02:30.31]and they probably will again in the future, [02:33.594]I am still sustained by the crop that flourishes during the drought.