Split Personality
(Esther Ofarim,
Robinson Crusoe
Show, 1964)
Half I'm curves and half I'm straight
Half I'm angler and half I'm bait
How I curse my dreadful fait,
I'm a mixed up mermaid
Half I'm true and half a lie
Half I'm dripping, Half I'm dry
Half I'm yes and half I'm no
feeling high, I am low
What am I to do for a living
And where am I to go, 'cause you know
Half I'm land and half I'm sea
Half I'm it and half I'm she
What a shame it is to be
Such a split personality
Half I'm warm and half I'm cold
Half I'm bashful and half I'm bold
Fair and unfair, I've been told
I'm a mixed up mermaid
I like water and I like wine
I like rain if the sun won't shine
All my life I live by extremes
or, at least so it seems
No one knows the real girl inside me
Because of all my dreams, I wonder...
Where's the he for this mixed up she
Fish or man who will marry me?
Cause I'm longing for a wee
Little split personality
Thank-you very much to Michiel Sweere,
who has written it by ear!