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)