in a perfect world, everyone would be happy.
there'd be no wars
no suffering
no political screwups, no civil dissent
no broken families
no broken people

elvis would be alive
michael hutchence settled down
fast food a healthy alternative
rainbows every morning

there'd be only wise decisions;
no what ifs to confound:
what if i'd chose this
or that instead
what if we'd gone down a different path
what if you'd said this
and if i'd done that
what if.

but now we're where we are
doing what we're doing
hoping for the best
living as we are

in a perfect world, everything would be fine
but it isn't, so it's not.