The Happy Song - Voltaire

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

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 cause when you ask

You might get what you want

The Devil he may care when you ask

You might get what you want

So now I spend most of my time

Waiting for things to happen

Letting the wind take me where it will

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 ugly waste of time

After all these precious opportunities

That I had to set things right
Dissolve like regrets in heaven they do

And she said

Anata no namae wo yuki ni kaku keredo mo nanimo iwanai

This is the Happy song

I wrote for you

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 ugly waste of time

After all these precious opportunities

That I had to set things right
Dissolve like regrets in heaven

Zen
Buddhist
Heaven