Scenes From a Separation

[00:08.54] We ear-marked our August vacation as a fine place to fall apart
[00:14.67] And we heard that a trial seperation was a quaint idea for a new start
[00:22.55] Then the city approached like a bandit my hands shook as they gripped the wheel
[00:30.02] As if I'd always known theres no place like home to show you the way that you feel
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[00:46.22] A rainy afternoon in your bedroom clothes in two piles on the floor
[00:54.48] One is labelled old couture the other's marked arms for the poor
[01:01.39] I'm just loitering trying to look helpful you offer two corners of the sheet
[01:08.50] We fold over and over and over again and then in the middle we'll meet
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[01:29.33] Now some days I feel like an engagement ring resting on the ocean floor
[01:36.76] Yet others just like that same Glen Campbell record found in every second hand store
[01:43.96] Now right now I'm watching a drummer haul his drums into a bar
[01:51.39] And deep down I'm secretly happy that I play the harmonica
[01:58.52] No, I'm not saying I'm lazy I just take more time to digress
[02:05.68] And I've more than three ways I empty my days now that you're not around to impress
[02:13.08] (I've more than three ways I empty my days now that you're not around to impress)
[02:21.66] Those forming morning birds
[02:29.13] They dont do things by thirds
[02:36.93] And your voice sounds just like it's reading from a birthday telegram
[02:44.64] It says "You're looking a little older" and I say "That's funny because I am"
[02:51.97] Last year escaped by the window and this year's going for a song
[02:59.55] And the church bells they're plagarising 'merily we roll along'
[03:06.79] No, we weren't together forever but then what the hell does that mean?
[03:14.08] One persons lifetime, the history of mankind or the years since I turned seventeen?
[03:21.43] (One persons lifetime, the history of mankind or the years since you turned seventeen)
[03:29.66] Yeah, I was light-headed, unfettered and I falsely claimed to know the dimensions of love
[03:37.90] I was prone to wild exageration saying things I had no concept of
[03:45.07] Maybe love takes the form of a mountain with no choice but forever to linger
[03:52.38] Maybe love lives in a soap bubble at the mercy of a child's finger
[03:59.71] But each with a little rainbow designed to hypnotise us
[04:06.87] And I wouldn't trade one heartbroken minute for a years worth of dull happiness
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[04:57.90] So I built myself another lifetime oh how quick did the calender grow
[05:05.55] And right now im seven years wiser than I was twenty five years ago
[05:12.55] I stopped to play with this cat on the footpath and he's cleaning his head with his paw
[05:20.05] And I know that you're gone so I'm moving on still I know that you're worth mourning for
[05:28.97] Now I'm feeling just fine but I'm taking my time 'cause I know that you're worth mourning for
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