When you wish that all of this was somehow simplified
When you need to count to three like a waltz in triple time
Do you want the seasons to be easy to remember?
Don't you wish that every month was June or December?
When you wish that you could stop and simplify these things
When you need a place to go to hear the new bird sing
Do you remember all the reasons why you cried?
Do you think your wishes might help you learn to fly?
And when you yearn for sunny days
And cuddling up like kittens
Do you think that life could be
As simple as I've written?
When you wish that what we know was somehow simplified
When you want it all explained by an older child
Do you want the reasons to be easy to remember?
Don't you wish that every day was May to September?
(Chorus)
When you wish for silence - movements in the noise
Do you wish that no one craved you like a toy?
Will you suffer, simplify your rituals and arrange them?
Do you dream to bathe in a river, never-changing?
(Chorus - 'should')
When you find a long-lost place where everybody sings
When you have discovered you helped to teach those things
Do you remember all the reasons why you tried?
Then I think your wishes will help you learn to fly
