Separate Ways

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For the 2005 album by Teddy Thompson, see Separate Ways (2005 album), for the Elvis Presley album, see Separate Ways (Elvis Presley album)

"Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" is a song sung by Journey on their album Frontiers and released as a single on February 5, 1983. It peaked at #8 on the Billboard Top 40. A driving keyboard anthem, it was written by Steve Perry and Jonathan Cain.

[edit] Video

The music video for the song featured the band playing at a wharf, sometimes playing their real instruments but also pretending to play non-existent instruments. The video is considered by many to be a classic "bad" video, in large part due to Steve Perry's overemotive expressions and gestures as well as his unfashionable pink-on-black tank top, and landed at number 13 on MTV's 1999 listing of the 25 worst videos.

[edit] Trivia

The song was featured in an episode of The Simpsons where Homer Simpson imagines what it would be like to live next to himself. It then switches to a scene in which Homer #1 yells out to Homer #2 to turn his loud rock music down..."Separate Ways" is the song that is played.

Japanese Professional Wrestler Ryuji Yamakawa who works for BJW Uses the song as his entrance theme.