One/Half Body

Marriage is suffering together

Half the burden, but double the pain

I’d eat your cancer into my body

If only to give you some form of refrain

‘Cause your body’s mine and mine is yours

And this mystery we’ll uncover over the course

Of our lives, as long or short as they be

And so we’ll live as one body

Marriage is always healing apart

While one gets better, the other stays the same

I’d eat your cancer if only you’d let me

But that’d just make a circle, ‘cause you’d do the same

‘Cause your body’s mine and mine is yours

And this mystery we’ll uncover over the course

Of our lives, as long or short as they be

And so we’ll live as one body

Marriage is so far from what it should be

Half the organs and personality

I’d’ve eaten your cancer, but you wouldn’t let me

Now marriage is just living with half my body

Your body was mine, and mine was yours

This mystery left covered through the course

Of our lives, as long as it should be,

And so I live with half of my body