Your Woman Misses Her Man(Album Version) - Chely Wright

The 50 Percent Theory of Life
I believe in the 50 percent theory
Half the time things are better than normal
The other half they re worse
I believe life is a pendulum swing
It takes time and experience to understand what normal is
And that gives me the perspective to deal with the surprises of the future
Let 's benchmark the parameters：yes I will die
I 've dealt with the deaths of both parents
A best friend a beloved boss and cherished pets
Some of these deaths have been violent before my eyes
Or slow and agonizing Bad stuff
And it belongs at the bottom of the scale
Then there are those high points：
Romance and marriage to the right person
Having a child and doing those Dad things like coaching my son 's baseball team
Paddling around the creek in the boat while he 's swimming with the dogs
Discovering his compassion so deep it manifests even in his kindness to snails
His imagination so vivid he builds a spaceship from a scattered pile of Legos
But there is a vast meadow of life in the middle
Where the bad and the good flip flop acrobatically
This is what convinces me to believe in the 50 percent theory
One spring I planted corn too early in a bottomland so flood prone that neighbors laughed
I felt chagrined at the wasted effort
Summer turned brutalthe worst heat wave and drought in my lifetime
The air conditioned died the well went dry
The marriage ended the job lost the money gone
I was living lyrics from a country tunemusic I loathed
Only a surging Kansas City Royals team buoyed my spirits
Looking back on that horrible summer
I soon understood that all succeeding good things merely offset the bad
Worse than normal wouldn 't last long I am owed and savor the halcyon times
The reinvigorate me for the next nasty surprise and offer assurance that can thrive
The 50 percent theory even helps me see hope beyond my Royals 'recent slump
A field of struggling rookies sown so that some year soon we can reap an October harvest
For that on blistering summer the ground moisture was just right
Planting early allowed pollination before heat withered the tops
And the lack of rain spared the standing corn from floods
That winter my crib overflowed with cornfat
Healthy three to a stalk ears filled with kernels from heel to tipwhile my neighbors '
Fields yielded only brown empty husks
Although plantings past may have fallen below the 50 percent expectation
And they probably will again in the future
I am still sustained by the crop that flourishes during the drought