Everything Happens

It was his fault! Ma, he's here and Michael isn't and it's his fault!
 I want to believe everything happens for a reason-
 No, no, no
 Everything happens, just that
 Everything happens
 An event, or a death
 A catastrophe
 Any reason as to why
 Is a reason you supply
 It just happens
 Everything happens
 It's not fate, no great plan
 It's not destiny
 Putting faith in that cliche
 Gives your own free will away
 When things happen
 And they will happen
 You can waste your whole damn life
 Assigning bits of philosophic meaning
 To the failures and misfortunes intervening
 And I'll tell you what you'll get
 Just a lifetime of regret
 No, no, no
 There is no reason for why
 Everything happens
 It's the changing of a season
 It's a fact
 And it's a constant
 And the only sane response
 Is to adjust
 Not to wish it hadn't happened
 When it must
 Now the church will tell you one thing
 And your friends, perhaps another
 If I were you I'd listen
 To your slightly dotty mother
 Who lost out on her own fair share
 Of good times and of laughter
 Listen
 What matters when things happen
 Is what happens after