We talk about social imperfections / we talk about wolves at every turn We think about the comical direction / I might've taken if I'd never learned There's no time for happy ever after / there's no time for walking in the surf There are no words I could ever mumble / that could touch The depths of what you're worth / And it's me who wants it all to be now / to be somehow perfect / Me that wants it all to be right / to be something sacred / You write down your intimate perceptions / you write down your disenchanted prose / Breathe deep the air of your existence / anything to understand the life you chose 'Cause it's me who wants it all to be now / to be somehow perfect / Me that wants it all to be right / to be something sacred, to be something sacred / And I don't understand the reason why; a cry for love gets no reply / The refuse swirling at my feet, the fascination with deceit / The politics of empty men, the confidence we all pretend / The multitudes at every gate, the unexpected hand of fate / And it's me who wants it all to be now to be somehow perfect / Me that wants it all to be right / to be something sacred