Lyrics Scenes From A Seperation - Darren Hanlon

We earmarked 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 there's 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 labeled old couture
The other's marked alms 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
Hauling 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 of more than three ways
I empty my days
Now that you're not around to impress
And of more than three ways
I empty my days
Now that you're not around to impress

Those forming morning birds
They don't 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
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 plagarizing
Merrily we roll along

No we weren't together forever
But then what the hell does that mean?
One person's lifetime
The history of mankind
Or the years since I turned seventeen?
One person's lifetime
The history of mankind
Or the years since you turned seventeen?

Yeah I was light headed unfettered not falsely
Claimed to know the dimensions of love
I was prone to wild exaggerations
Saying things I had no concept of
Maybe love takes the form of a mountain
With no choice but forever to linger
Or maybe love lives in a soap bubble
At a mercy of a child's finger

But each one comes with a little rainbow
Designed to hypnotise us
And I wouldn't trade one heart broken minute
For a years worth of dull happiness

So I built myself another lifetime
Oh how quick did the calender grow?
And right now i'm 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 more than four
And i'm feeling just fine
But i'm taking my time
Cause I know that you're worth more than four