Parting Would Be Painless - Roger Daltrey

It’s easy in the confidence of a warm heart

To observe how other lovers criticize

When their turn comes to part

They grow uncivilized

Wasn’t friendship going to carry us

When love ran out?

Didn’t we know

What respect was all about?

But now it would seem

That’s all forgotten

(I didn’t want it to end like this)

And I don’t even know (I didn’t want it to end)

When we lost the way

Oh no no no

Not me and you

Not we two

Oh no didn’t we agree

Parting would be painless

I remember how in the safety of our love

We swore we’d never let that state arise

And if one had had enough

We would be civilized

By watching we could avoid

The same mistakes

We would tread the soft way out

For the other’s sake

Can it be possible?

Is it happening this way?

We are the same two people

Tearing up in anger

Tearing everything in complicated knots

Not caring, not giving, not giving a damn