There is a taste in my mouth And these words they just won't wash it out There's a message on the wall saying to call, Or get out Hole in her Dire Straits shirt And she cries that they went home without her But she'll save her regrets till the morning instead Ahh aah It's a slow separation From the place we used to be It's a slow separation From the better parts of me You're a growing pain to me now And we both won't fit on the sidewalk in town Now at the impasse If we stay here, we won't last It's a slow separation From the place we used to be It's a slow separation From the better parts of me There is a moment in time When the motion it drags you farther behind And everyone's home now Except you It's a slow separation From the place we used to be It's a slow separation From the better parts of me