A Separate Peace

Dear son dear son

Can you blame me separate peace

I will do what's right for me

Dear son how you've been

I got your card and the bottle of gin now

What's new let me see

Well 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

No guilt I've opened my cage

You'll like my new girl she's about your age oh yeah

Oh well you can't blame me

No want my separate peace

I'll do what's right what's right on now for me

Oh well you can't blame me

No want my separate peace

Don't you stand there wide-eyed and don't believe

Can you blame me separate peace

I will do what's right for me

And son your mother's just fine

I see her in the market from time to time

She got so drunk that she wrecked the car

Trying to get home from the corner bar

Because this life is too cold to be straight

I guess a little drink it helps her escape

She gave up now disillusioned in men

But in that little bottle she's found a new friend oh yeah

Oh well you can't blame me

No want my separate peace

I'll do what's right what's right on now for me

Oh well you can't blame me

No want my separate peace

Don't you stand there wide-eyed and don't believe

Oh son I almost forgot

Your brother left his body in a parking lot

I guess it happens all the time

These godd**n 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 gone

Are you coming home for the holidays son

Oh son I almost forgot

Your brother left his body in a parking lot

I guess it happens all the time

These godd**n 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 gone

Are you coming home for the holidays son Oh yeah

Oh well you can't blame me

No want my separate peace

I'll do what's right what's right on now for me

Oh well you can't blame me

No want my separate peace

Don't you stand there wide-eyed and don't believe

Oh well you can't blame me

No want my separate peace

Do what's right what's right on now for me

And oh well you can't blame me

No want my separate peace

Let me go set me set me free