Separations
Pulp Lyrics

As the sun shines down on the land,
Just as the sun radiates light upon the earth...

So her heart is crying for love.
...her heart is aching for love.

And there is no-one there,
...there is no one physically present near her...

No-one to hear her voice.
...and no one to hear her pleas.

And she will sleep alone again tonight.
...and so she will spend another night alone.

Now the moon is high in the sky.
The glowing moon has risen high into the nighttime sky.

In her room she calls out his name.
She cries out his name from within her bedroom.

But he is somewhere else,
...unfortunately, he is not there with her...

Somewhere she cannot see.
...and right now, he is in a place which she does not have access to.

Oh, and the night is dark between them now,
The darkness of the night emphatically accentuates the distance between them...

"My god, my God, why did he go away?"
...and she helplessly asks a rhetorical question pleading for his return.

Now the sun shines on a new town.
As the sun shines on a different town...

With a smile he gets off the train.
...he steps off the train with a smile on his face.

He lights a cigarette,
...he lights his cigarette...

Leans back to see the sky.
...then leans backwards to look up into the sky.

Oh and he thinks how much better off he is,
Just like that, he considers how happier he is now...

Without her hanging round.
...because she's longer around.

Let's do it.
A short phrase, possibly suggesting that he's now set on moving on with his new life.

And the day is passing by him,
...the day is simply passing him by...

And he has nowhere to stay.
...and he has presently nowhere to stay.

At a lonely bar-room table,
He then proceeds to sit by himself at a bar table...

His mind goes back to yesterday,
...and his mind takes him back to the previous day...

To the girl who's dead and buried,
...reminding him of his old flame who has passed away.

But her face lives in his eyes.
He cannot seem to forget her as her image remains etched in his memory...

He must forget that face forever.
...but he knows that he needs to forget her.

Make the future start tonight.
It is time to start anew and forge forward with his life.

But the meal he eats is dead flesh.
The meal presented before him is nothing more than dead animal meat...

There is cancer in his cigarettes.
...and unfortunately, the cigarettes he smokes contribute to the lethal disease that cancer is.

And the drinks won't do a thing for him,
The drinks he consumes cannot change a thing...

But revive some stupid memories.
...however, they do reignite some pointless memories.

Then a hairstyle that reminds him,
He then happens to see a familiar hairstyle that triggers...

Makes him run into the night,
...a running frenzy that propels him into the night...

Where the moon hangs high above him now,
...and beneath the same moon that resides above her now...

The same moon that she's praying on tonight.
...the same moon that she is probably praying to right now...

But the wind catches her words.
...however, the wind just manages to catch nothing but her spawned words.

And the moon swallows them whole.
...because the moon consumes and digests them all.

Now the moon is high in the sky.
At this time, the moon has once again rose high into the sky.

In her room she calls out his name.
...and within the confines of her room, she still calls out his name.

The night is cold and dark, and she is all alone.
...darkness persists and she is still alone in her room.

The bed is empty now.
No one is there to join her in bed anymore...

Her body screams for love.
...and her body achingly yearns for love.

She wants to be with him.
The need to be with him still lingers within her mind...

Oh but he's so far away.
...however, he is still way out of reach...

Oh and the night is dark between them now
...and the dark, sleepless nights spent apart only widens the divide between them...

"My God, my God, why did he go away?"
Once again, she cries out desperately in anguish, asking an unanswerable question relating to his exit.