"Separate Lives" is a 1985 song recorded by Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin and featured on the soundtrack to the motion picture White Nights. It reached No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts as well as in Canada and Ireland. It reached No. 4 on the UK Singles Chart, and was certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry.
The song received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song in 1986, but it lost to Lionel Richie's song "Say You, Say Me" from the same film.
Lyrics (my version)
I called you from the room in my hotel
All full of romance for someone that I met
And telling you how sorry I was, leaving so soon
And that I miss you sometimes when I am alone in my room
Do you feel lonely too?
I have no right to ask you how you feel
I have no right to speak to you so kind
I can't go on just holding on to time
Now that we're living (living) separate lives
Well I held on to let you go
And if you lost your love for me, well you never let it show (never let it show)
There was no way to compromise
So now we're living (living)
Separate lives
Ooh, it's so typical, love leads to isolation
So I build that wall (build that wall)
Yes, I build that wall (build that wall)
And I make it stronger
Well I have no right to ask you how you feel
I have no right to speak to you so kind
Some day I might (I might) find myself looking in your eyes
But for now, we'll go on living separate lives
Yes for now, we'll go on living separate lives
Ah, separate lives
