CORRECT LYRICS
Lyrics : Both Sides of the Coin
I am not myself these days - for all I
Know I might be you
There's more than room enough for two inside my mind
I am likewise in a haze of who I am from
Scene to scene;
What's more we two, (we four, I mean)
Are in a bind!
For is it I or is it me?
And if I'm him and if I'm he, each on of us might not
Agree on what to do
And if I take opposing sides within myself
Then who divides up what is right or wrong?
I'll go along with you
Ha'penny, one penny, tupenny, thrupenny
Twelve to a shilling, twice that to a florin
And would you not fancy the currency foreign
To find the same face on both sides of the coin?
Bob is your uncle from pennies to guineas
The two-sided mint is the rule, not exception
And would you not quite feel quite the fool of deception
To find the same face on both sides of the coin?
Odds or evens, it's high or low
It's up or down or night
Heads or tails, or black and white
Or left and right or day!
Nature seldom ever fails to most obligingly provide
An undisclosed opposing side to one's dismay
There's shadows on this shining morn
If there's a rose it bears a thorn
You're as good as dead as soon as born
And yet we smile!
But luck's division is perverse
It seems to work more in reverse
If things are better, they'll be worse in just a while!
(Repeat Chorus)
Know I might be you
There's more than room enough for two inside my mind
I am likewise in a haze of who I am from
Scene to scene;
What's more we two, (we four, I mean)
Are in a bind!
For is it I or is it me?
And if I'm him and if I'm he, each on of us might not
Agree on what to do
And if I take opposing sides within myself
Then who divides up what is right or wrong?
I'll go along with you
Ha'penny, one penny, tupenny, thrupenny
Twelve to a shilling, twice that to a florin
And would you not fancy the currency foreign
To find the same face on both sides of the coin?
Bob is your uncle from pennies to guineas
The two-sided mint is the rule, not exception
And would you not quite feel quite the fool of deception
To find the same face on both sides of the coin?
Odds or evens, it's high or low
It's up or down or night
Heads or tails, or black and white
Or left and right or day!
Nature seldom ever fails to most obligingly provide
An undisclosed opposing side to one's dismay
There's shadows on this shining morn
If there's a rose it bears a thorn
You're as good as dead as soon as born
And yet we smile!
But luck's division is perverse
It seems to work more in reverse
If things are better, they'll be worse in just a while!
(Repeat Chorus)