The Sadness of Things

I called you dancing queen
 At the Quai des Brumes
 At Kamakura you said you'd like to paint tears
 On the neutral face of the Buddha
 In the season of storms
 We went walking in storms
 Just like a video, just like a symphony
 And for you, when things go wrong
 They go wrong for all the right reasons
 And when it gets warm you adapt with the seasons
 In a world of changing colours every colour has a meaning
 And the universe exists for the convenience of your feelings
 And as for me
 I know a different world
 A world where the sea
 Refuses to rage when boy loses girl
 Oh I know there's comfort in sadness
 But I try to distinguish these passing emotions
 My unimportant existence
 From the great machine of the world's indifference
 Mono no aware
 The sadness of things
 Mono no aware
 The temptation to see
 The world as it ought to be
 Mono no aware
 The sadness of things
 Blinded with tears
 I can still see
 My insignificance
 In an indifferent universe
 If I were you
 If I were beautiful
 Maybe the world
 Might seem more meaningful
 I grow old! I grow old!
 As the winter comes on and the sky grows cold
 But you stay as young as the rays of the sun
 On the sparkling machinery you call your destiny
 Mono no aware
 The sadness of things
 Mono no aware
 The temptation to see
 The world as it ought to be
 Mono no aware
 The thunder and rain
 Sharing our pain
 ...My insignificance
 In an indifferent universe
 Do I dare to eat a peach?
 Do I dare to walk the beach?
 And if I dare to eat a peach
 If I should care to shed a tear
 Could I claim more for my action
 Than selfish satisfaction?
 (Stock mammalian reflex, biochemical reaction)
 Mono no aware
 The sadness of things
 As if things felt anything
 Mono no aware
 The temptation to see
 The world as it ought to be
 Mono no aware
 The thunder and rain
 Sharing our pain
 Blinded by tears
 I can still see
 My insignificance
 In an indifferent universe