Why is it that after separation, some people would still call each other? They talk of things past and how they could have tried to work out the relationship but without acknowledging the pain and being sorry for it.
You called me from the room in your hotel
All full of romance for someone that you’d met
And telling me how sorry you were leaving so soon
And that you miss me sometimes when you’re alone in your room
Do I feel lonely too?
Yes, just when you have come to let go, your pain would return masked as a love begging for your affection and asking for a compromise, a second chance, a reunion of a broken commitment.
Well, I have learned to let you go
And if you lost your love for me, you never let it show
There was no way to compromise
So now we’re living separate lives
The pain that betrayal brings is beyond explanation. There is simply no way it can be understood. The only path available is acceptance, but to face it, we often have to build a wall, a wall so strong and so formidable it will isolate us. But in return. pain and anguish can no longer come in to further hurt us.
Ooh, it’s so difficult, love leads to isolation
So you build that wall (you build that wall)
Yes, you build that wall (build that wall)
And you make it stronger
The one who hurt us may speak kind words and ask us how we are. After what they have done to us, those words are insults meant to inflict more pain to an already broken heart even as we try to hold on, asking time to move on fast so we can find the strength to forget,
You have no right to ask me how I feel
You have no right to speak to me so kind
I can’t go on, holding on to time
Now we’re living separate lives (living separate lives)
In time, we may learn to look at the betrayal without feeling the pain. But until that day comes, staying away and being on our own is the best way that healing can take place.
Some day I might (I might) find myself looking in your eyes
But for now, we’ll go on living separate lives
Yes, for now, we’ll go on living separate lives
Released in 1985 as the soundtrack to the film “White Nights”, the song “Separate Lives” captured the top spot in Billboard’s Hot 100 and in the Adult Contemporary charts. Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin recorded the song originally composed by Stephen Bishop.
“Separate Lives” also ranked number 4 on the UK Singles charts and a version of the song by Stephen Bishop was nominated Best Original Song at the 1986 Oscar Awards. Another song from the movie “White Nights,” Lionel Ritchie’s “Say You, Say Me,” eventually took home the prestigious title.
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