The Happy Song

Spoken: A Buddhist on the subway tells me that
 What 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 perfection
 And it found me, right between the eyes
 All this time we spent in bliss,
 You know, like all things, it has to fade away
 The devil says beware
 Cus when you ask, you might get what you want
 The devil, he may care
 When you ask, you might get what you want
 Spoken: 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 veil
 You get so blind you never see the light coming down the tracks
 It keeps me hanging from a thread
 Devil drives the train,
 Devil pass me by
 This is the happy song I wrote for you
 You know, this is the happy song I never wrote for you
 And after all this time,
 And after all the lies
 Never dreamed you would seem to me little more than an earthly waste of time
 After all these precious opportunities that I had to set things right
 Dissolve like regret in heaven, they do
 And she said
 Anata no namae o yuki ni kaku
 Keredomo nani mo iwanai.
 (Japanese translation: You write your name in the snow
 Yet say nothing.)
 This is the happy song I wrote for you
 This is the happy song I never wrote for you
 After all this time, and after all the lies
 Never dreamed you would seem to me little more than an earthly waste of time
 After all these precious opportunities that I had to set things right
 Dissolve like regret in heaven,
 Zen Buddhist heaven.