"I wish, I wish, I wish, I wish (Repeats) But it's all in vain" (Repeats) Different colors, different faces Different schools in different places Scour the morning papers, all in vain Evening after, who remembers? Say your prayers for the great pretenders I see nothing but flowers, all in vain "I wish, I wish, I wish, I wish (Repeats) But it's all in vain" (Repeats) All the gravestone elegies I-never-met-you memories And every T.V. picture, all in vain All your questions, deep as skin Seperate worlds to put them in Another might-have-been, all in vain "I wish, I wish, I wish, I wish" (Repeats) Color blind as tse-tse flies Sucking all our difference dry And as we sleep they multiply (Repeats) "All in vain" (Repeats) Multiply (Repeats)
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