Lyrics

We earmarked our August vacation As a fine place to fall apart And we heard that a trial separation 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 labelled 'haute 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 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 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 fonding morning birds They don't do things by thirds 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 plagiarising '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, and I falsely Claimed to know the dimensions of love I was prone to wild exaggeration 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 Each one comes with a little rainbow Designed to hypnotise us And I wouldn't trade one heart broken minute For a year's worth of dull happiness So I built myself another lifetime Oh, how quick did the calendar grow And right now I'm seven years wiser Than I was twenty five years ago I start 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 And I'm feeling just fine but I'm taking my time 'Cause I know that you're worth mourning for