Under a purple cloud in tatters
A perfect golden sunset shatters
You keep talking like it matters
To her

I'm sitting smoking by the window
In French I'm thinking, "Mais c'est si beau"
This time you offer a placebo
Your smile

It's the way you say goodbye
No one wants it more than I
It's the way you say goodbye
You can't regret this more than I

TV makes conversation for us
Repeating commercial, cloying chorus
This endless programming will bore us
One day (I can't see when that would be)

It's the way you say goodbye
No one wants it more than I
It's the way you say goodbye
You can't regret this more than I

I know what you did, I saw you.
It's all the same, it's all you are...
(One day you'll look and see who you are)

It's the way you say goodbye
No one wants it more than I
It's the way you say goodbye
You can't regret this more than I

Under a purple cloud in tatters
A perfect golden sunset shatters
I still love you like it matters