He leaves early in the morning, and works a long hard day;
While she’s home taking care of kids, and putting everybody’s stuff away.
He gets home late in the evening, and settles down to watch TV;
She’s still dealing with the kids, the dishes, and the house,
In a cycle spinning endlessly
When they’re living parallel, life doesn’t go so well;
Even in the same small space, they might as well both be in outer space.
They don’t connect, they don’t unite; when they’re together they mostly just fight
About who’s wrong and who’s right – They’re living parallel.
She spends the bulk of every day Talking just to babies;
So when he gets home from work at night, she’s starved for something more.
But he’s just spent the day Solving complex problems:
He needs a little time to just unwind,
So he disappears behind a door.
They’re living parallel; And things aren’t going so well;
Even in the same small space, they might as well both be in outer space.
‘Cause they don’t connect, they don’t unite; And over time, they don’t even fight:
What’s the point – nothing ever changes: They’re living parallel.
Then one day, they start to see it – how distant they’ve become;
They’re strangers to each other – And the family that they’ve begun
Seems suddenly in terrible danger; They look in their children’s eyes:
And remember what they both hoped for once: They start to realize:
They’ve been living parallel, And things aren’t going so well;
And life just can’t stay the same – They can’t keep playing this lonely game.
They gotta connect, they gotta unite, They gotta wake up and make things right,
Or their family could falter and fail From living parallel….
From living parallel…
Day by day, they learn to care for each other well:
No longer living… Parallel.
