Page 8 of Songs for Other People's Weddings

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The song he’s written for Jun and Arthur is called “55%.”

It goes like this:

Think of life as a battery

Ticking backwards slow

Instead of being 37

We’ve got 55% to go

Think of all the time

We’ve practiced and rehearsed

For an ending that never started

For the other to strike first

We gotta hurry up and love

We might not have much time left

Give or take—45 years

Of not being dead

I have so many questions

While we’re still alive

I’ll never know you completely

And it tears me up inside

We met in the wrestling ring

We were young and we brawled

I got to gently unmask you

And tell you what I saw

Not a savage beast

With a heart made of metal

When you waved the white flag

That’s when you won the battle

We gotta hurry up and love

We might not have much time left

Give or take—45 years

Of not being dead