Half of Everything

Verse 1

Piano and voice

Boxes in the hallway with your writing on the side"Kitchen," "books," "the winter things," like we're moving somewhere niceYou kept the kettle, I kept the chairWe were so polite, like we were never there

Pre-Chorus

And I'm trying to be fairI'm trying to be grownBut I don't know which half of the bedI'm meant to sleep on alone

Chorus

So take half of everythingTake the records, take the ringTake the good plates and the painting from the hallBut tell me how I'm meant to splitSix years of thisWhen there's no half of meThat isn't yours at all

Verse 2

Strings and drums enter

Your mother rang to say she's sorry how it wentShe said "you'll always be family," and I think she meant itI've got your jumper in a drawer I haven't opened sinceIt still smells like Sunday, and I can't do this

Pre-Chorus

And I'm trying to be fairI'm trying to be grownBut I don't know which half of the bedI'm meant to sleep on alone

Chorus

So take half of everythingTake the records, take the ringTake the good plates and the painting from the hallBut tell me how I'm meant to splitSix years of thisWhen there's no half of meThat isn't yours at all

Bridge

Belting, voice breaking

And if you want the photographsThen take them, take them allI don't need the proof we happenedI remember every wallBut if you're leaving with the half of meThat knew how to be wholeThen take it, love, just take it'Cause I can't carry it alone

Final Chorus

Everything at full height, then falling away to piano

So take half of everythingTake the records, take the ringTake the good plates and the painting from the hallBut tell me how I'm meant to splitSix years of thisWhen there's no half of meThat isn't yours at all

Outro

Piano alone

Not at all