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