Separate Peace Lyrics

Dear son, how’ve you been?

I got your card and the bottle of gin

What’s new, let me see

Seems there’s no love left between your mother and me

She gets half the house, I’m getting my share

Of half this life we’ve built in twenty-three years

But there’s no guilt, I’ve opened my cage

You’ll like my new girl, she’s about your age, oh yea



Can you blame me? Separate peace

I’ll do what’s right, what’s right for me

And I’ve found my separate peace

Understand me, can’t you see, I don’t care



And son, your mother’s just fine

I see her in the market from time to time

She got drunk, wrecked the car

Trying to get home from the corner bar

This life’s too cold to be straight

I guess a little drink, it helps her escape

She’s gave up, disillusioned in men

But in that little bottle she’s found a new friend



Can you blame me? Separate peace

Do what’s right, what’s right for me

And I’ve found my separate peace

Understand me, can’t you see, I don’t care



Understand me, can’t you see

Let me go, just set me free



Oh son, I almost forgot

Your brother left his body in a parking lot

I guess it happens all the time

These goddamn kids cross the needle and line

What happened, I can’t understand

He left so early, he was such a young man

Oh well, now he’s just gone

And are you coming home for the holidays, son? Oh yea



Can you blame me? Separate peace

Do what’s right, what’s right for me

And I’ve found my separate peace

Understand me, can’t you see

[x2]

I don’t care