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)