A sense of duty   was my one intention    and an ugly beauty    was my own invention    Pride a proud refusal    and I refuse    to need your approval    Too many seekers    Too few beacons    But through the fog    we'll keep on beaming       Through the crying hours    of your glitter years    all the living out    of your tinsel tears    and the midnight trains    I never made    'cos I'd already    played...the game       Everybody's    got their own good reason    why their favorite season    is their favorite season    Winter winners    and those summers sons    aren't good for everyone    aren't good for everyone    Spring has sprung    and autumns well done    so well done       And it's a better thing    that we do now    forgetting everything    the whys and hows    While you reminisce    about the things you miss    you won't be ready    to kiss...goodbye       The earth is a world    The world is a ball    A ball in a game    with no rules at all    And just as I wonder    at the beauty of it all    you go and drop it    and it breaks and falls       I'll never understand    why you thought I would    need to be reassured    and be understood    When I always knew    that your bad's my good    and I was ready    ready...to be loved       Born under Mars    With Jupiter rising    Fallen from stars    That lit my horizon       I'll never understand    why you thought I would    need to be reassured    and be understood    When I always knew    that your bad's my good    and I was ready    ready...to be       Through the crying hours    of your glitter years    all the living out    of your tinsel tears    and the midnight trains    I never made    'cos I'd already    played       it's a better thing    that we do now    forgetting everything    the whys and hows    While you reminisce    about the things you miss    you won't be ready    to kiss...goodbye