Mark a jar with half the measurement

Be the stray bullet, a fly for the ointment

I'm happier now that you're disappointed

Sometimes I'm not enough of a let-down

When help comes around, why be the one that floats?

I thought I was

Beyond this phase

But I'm nowhere near

Growing less every spring

Pared back the self that's closest

Can't get to know him

Damned to half the measurement

Same, the humor in coping

Is how we claim to have it all worked out

I mistake a same for a change

Same old ways of coping (Old ways bring out flaws we haven't beaten)

Mistaking the same familiar person

I mistake a same for a change

So nervous, I can't talk to no strangers

If they see madness in my mind then it's all I'll have been

A jar stable enough

But only half the measurement