Taking me down in the old town

Worn sneakers know their way

Your pocket book’s on a tight chain

Grown shorter by the day

We gotta work it out from the inside

We gotta pull the sheets from the bed

Like everybody else I have the typical fantasy

But then the battle comes, then the battle comes

If we don’t start to bend in the middle

If we don’t start to bend in the middle

If we all don’t start to bend in the middle

Our problem’s our disconnection

Our well intended split

But we can tune back in to the goodness again

But loving all the parts that don’t fit

We gotta work it out from the inside

We gotta pull the sheets from the bed

Like everybody else I have the typical fantasy

But then the battle comes, then the battle comes

If we don’t start to bend in the middle

If we don’t start to bend in the middle

If we all don’t start to bend in the middle

So caught up in everybody else and how they’re living (wrong!)

When everything relevant occurs within

We gotta work it out from the inside

We gotta pull the sheets from the bed

Like everybody else I have the typical fantasy

But then the battle comes, then the battle comes

If we don’t start to bend in the middle

If we don’t start to bend in the middle

If we all don’t start to bend in the middle