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Spoken: A Buddhist on the subway tells me thatWhat you want is rarely, if ever, what you need.And of course, I argue the point like a completely self-righteous idiot.Sung: I was looking for perfectionAnd it found me, right between the eyesAll this time we spent in bliss,You know, like all things, it has to fade awayThe devil says bewareCus when you ask, you might get what you wantThe devil, he may careWhen you ask, you might get what you wantSpoken: So now I spend most of my time waiting for things to happen,Letting the wind take me where it will.Sung: Only when it's done do you lose the veilYou get so blind you never see the light coming down the tracksIt keeps me hanging from a threadDevil drives the train,Devil pass me byThis is the happy song I wrote for youYou know, this is the happy song I never wrote for youAnd after all this time,SongtexteAnd after all the liesNever dreamed you would seem to me little more than an earthly waste of timeAfter all these precious opportunities that I had to set things rightDissolve like regret in heaven, they doAnd she saidAnata no namae o yuki ni kakuKeredomo nani mo iwanai.(Japanese translation: You write your name in the snowYet say nothing.)This is the happy song I wrote for youThis is the happy song I never wrote for youAfter all this time, and after all the liesNever dreamed you would seem to me little more than an earthly waste of timeAfter all these precious opportunities that I had to set things right Dissolve like regret in heaven,Zen Buddhist heaven. Aus Songtexte Mania