Get Me Straight Again

(from the CD Songs from the Bright Side)

I've spent my whole life fighting
I'm tired and I'm trying to dance
I'm not so good as a lover
And I'm not so great as a man
I'd trade my own sad story
For just one loving friend
It's going to take a blue moon
And an miracle
To get me straight again.

I've done my share of everything
That's supposed t make a man feel good
I tried God and I tried money
I tried solitude and love
Until I cried out to the angels
Will the heartache never end?
It's going to take a blue moon
And a miracle
To get me straight again.

Days of wonder, nights of awe
Is the life I live worth living for?
Is this a joke, is this real life?
Is this the way Hank Williams died?

I stepped across the borderline
Until I couldn't even think or talk
Until I finally cracked and finished up
In a clinic in New York
They took away my belt, my pride
My necktie and my pen
It's going to take a blue moon
And a miracle
To get me straight again.