Scenes From a Separation

We ear-marked our August vacation as a fine place to fall apart
And we heard that a trial seperation was a quaint idea for a new start
Then the city approached like a bandit my hands shook as they gripped the wheel
As if I'd always known theres no place like home to show you the way that you feel

A rainy afternoon in your bedroom clothes in two piles on the floor
One is labelled old couture the other's marked arms for the poor
I'm just loitering trying to look helpful you offer two corners of the sheet
We fold over and over and over again and then in the middle we'll meet

Now some days I feel like an engagement ring resting on the ocean floor
Yet others just like that same Glen Campbell record found in every second hand store
Now right now I'm watching a drummer haul his drums into a bar
And deep down I'm secretly happy that I play the harmonica

No, I'm not saying I'm lazy I just take more time to digress
And I've more than three ways I empty my days now that you're not around to impress
(I've more than three ways I empty my days now that you're not around to impress)

Those forming morning birds
They dont do things by thirds

And your voice sounds just like it's reading from a birthday telegram
It says "You're looking a little older" and I say "That's funny because I am"
Last year escaped by the window and this year's going for a song
And the church bells they're plagarising 'merily we roll along'

No, we weren't together forever but then what the hell does that mean?
One persons lifetime, the history of mankind or the years since I turned seventeen?
(One persons lifetime, the history of mankind or the years since you turned seventeen)
Yeah, I was light-headed, unfettered and I falsely claimed to know the dimensions of love
I was prone to wild exageration saying things I had no concept of

Maybe love takes the form of a mountain with no choice but forever to linger
Maybe love lives in a soap bubble at the mercy of a child's finger
But each with a little rainbow designed to hypnotise us
And I wouldn't trade one heartbroken minute for a years worth of dull happiness

So I built myself another lifetime oh how quick did the calender grow
And right now im seven years wiser than I was twenty five years ago
I stopped to play with this cat on the footpath and he's cleaning his head with his paw
And I know that you're gone so I'm moving on still I know that you're worth mourning for
Now I'm feeling just fine but I'm taking my time 'cause I know that you're worth mourning for