Lyrics for Happiness as interpreted by WarmLikeSnow

Happiness Lyrics
Happiness is just outside my window
Would it crash blowing 80-miles an hour?
Or is happiness a little more like knocking
On your door, and you just let it in?

Happiness feels a lot like sorrow
Let it be, you can’t make it come or go
But you are gone- not for good but for now
Gone for now feels a lot like gone for good

Happiness is a firecracker sitting on my headboard
Happiness was never mine to hold
Careful child, light the fuse and get away
‘Cause happiness throws a shower of sparks

Happiness damn near destroys you
Breaks your faith to pieces on the floor
So you tell yourself, that’s probably enough for now
Happiness has a violent roar

Happiness is like the old man told me
Look for it, but you’ll never find it all
But let it go, live your life and leave it
Then one day, wake up and she’ll be home
Home, home, home

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WarmLikeSnow
04-24-2007

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This song is beautiful. Isaac sings it with so much emotion that when I saw him sing it live, many girls in the audience cried. Before he began, he dedicated it to his father.

For those of you who have never heard of it, check out youtube. He has only sang it live and we can only hope it's on the next album.

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aushpog
04-25-2007

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happiness is based on circumstances.
contentment is eternal.

so happiness is, then, unpredictable, like a firecracker. chase after it and it destroys you, because if you chase after things that fill the gap inside you, you aren't chasing eternal joy. you're chasing something that will forever change.

happiness.

i have a question. the second to last line - "the one day, wake up and she'll be home"--do you think that's talking about a person, or is isaac personifying happiness?

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WarmLikeSnow
04-25-2007

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I personally would like to believe that he is personifying Happiness because I feel that adds a bit more beauty to the song and it's overall meaning.

I like what you said about it. Makes a lot of sense. :)

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aushpog
04-27-2007

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p.s. this is my new fave.

AND IS THERE ANYWAY TO DOWNLOAD IT?! ANYWHERE?! i'm so desperate to find it!

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vickie_d
05-24-2007

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oh how i love this song....it's one of the most beautiful one's i've ever heard. i think this is actually one of my favorites. i don't think there is an audio version out....or else i'd have it...lol

so, i think i like aushpog's meaning the most. i think what makes this song are the lines:
---Happiness feels a lot like sorrow
---Let it be, you can’t make it come or go
Sorrow is a sad thing to experience but everyone knows that the best remedy for it is time. No one goes looking for sorrow...it just is. And to me, happiness is the exact same thing. True happiness is not something one looks for. Ponder this...when one is sad, isn't it more likely that the person will search frantically for a way to get from it? That happiness isn't real. Real happiness is like falling in love, like getting great unexpected news. And the main reason for all of those things is because you aren't searching for it.

AUSHPOG::i actually think it could be either/both of your choices. because happiness for one person could lie within another person...it reminds me of the old, extremely familiar saying (if you love something let it go, if it comes back then it means so much more). a lot of happiness can come with a person who makes the decision to return on his/her own. and the same can be said almost any kind of thing that provides that meaningful happiness.

still, i love isaac's voice in this song. i first heard it at a concert in january....i can't wait to hear it again in july!!!!! seriously, i tell my friends all the time that if i could marry his coice i would...lol

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LyricalHarmony
05-24-2007

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i dont even know how to put in words how much this song means to me and just how much in some wierd sense can relate to it. this kind of lyrical masterpiece is what makes me just .. .lose myself.idunno.. .

but all i know is that when i listen to this. all the bad feelings go away. and its just me and the music.and.to me thats real music. =]

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jennytisme
06-02-2007

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i hope they release this song. i listened to it at their myspace page.

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vickie_d
06-06-2007

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seriously, they should put it on the next cd...or better yet...they should release it as a a single NOW!!!!!! i just need a way to get this song....

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isaacplaysthepiano
06-20-2007

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I just went to a Fray concert and it was THE BEST THING EVER!! They are sooo much better live than when you just listen to their cds!! And LYRICAL HARMONY i can totaly agree with you there its amazing and the fact that Isaac sounds like an angel makes it a bazillion times better

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votre_mere
06-21-2007

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This song, incredible.

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Little_Earthquakes
07-08-2007

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bDNQuNw1xU&mode=related&search=

copy and paste it please!

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astroik08
11-24-2007

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if anyone wants the mp3 version of this song, send me an email-- astroik08@hotmail.com

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frayrox
12-06-2007

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this song is about isaacs granda getting married so i think that when he says "Happiness feels a lot like sorrow Let it be, you can’t make it come or go" he means u cant randomly take happines you have to wait for it to come to you "Look for it, but you’ll never find it all But let it go, live your life and leave it Then one day, wake up and she’ll be home Home, home, home"

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frayrox
12-06-2007

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i luv this song soooo much but every time i hear it it fills me with emptiness because it reminds of the concert (uk tour in mayo) and the emotion isaac puts in happiness is in every single song at the concerts there amazing and i wish i was still at it cus my phone went dead when the fray were comin on so i have no pics or vids

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LaBrees
05-05-2008

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this song reminds me of how Isaac and i were besties but we were each never truly happy with the friendship. u can NEVER be happy with a friendship ALL the way.

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yoletsee
10-08-2008

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"Happiness feels a lot like sorrow
Let it be, you can’t make it come or go
But you are gone- not for good but for now
Gone for now feels a lot like gone for good"

I think what isaac is trying to explain in this part is that being away from home all the time and away from family and friends is almost like losing them. He spends time more on the road then he does with the people he cares most for and while he's deliriously happy about touring and having to sing for the his fans, there's this side of Happiness that kind of just doesn't make you happy. y'know?

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stewart715
02-04-2009

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Isaac Slade said the song is for his Grandfather who just lost his wife recently.

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Emily90
02-06-2009

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I liked this song before I looked over the lyrics - now, I LOVE this song.

Fantastic.

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finallyfree
02-08-2009

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In an interview, Isaac said this was about his wife and "Happiness sums up the record for me. Every good thing is good because it costs something. Every yes has a no. When you get to 'that place' often it costs more than you thought but it's worth it"

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Nikki--xoxo
02-24-2009

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I'm in love with this song!!!

The lyrics are beyond amazing and its well put together.

Incredible really describes it!

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TerraTorment
03-14-2009

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my favorite part would have to be
"Happiness damn near destroys you
Breaks your faith to pieces on the floor
So you tell yourself, that�s probably enough for now
Happiness has a violent roar

Happiness is like the old man told me
Look for it, but you�ll never find it all
But let it go, live your life and leave it"

this song means so much to me it makes sense in the simplest way possible, i want inside this mans head, to see what other beautiful pieces he has yet to put on paper.



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salies
03-17-2009

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i love absolutely love this song!
i think it is just about what happiness is.
that if you chase it, you won't find it. that chasing it will just destroy you.
but if you just live your life, it will come to you.
i like to think in the last line where issac says
'Then one day, wake up and she'll be home'
he is talking about happiness. personifying it.
saying that one day you'll wake up, and happiness will be there.

i'm seeing the fray in concert in exactly a week!

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Julzheartz
03-31-2009

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This song is soo pretty, from its Sound to the words, lovee this song and Love the frayy<3

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00Violet00
04-01-2009

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Ok well this is what it means to me:

I believe the most important part of this song is that last line

"Then one day, wake up and she�ll be home"

if you take that then go through the rest of the song it makes more sense, I believe that the 'Happiness' he talks about in the song could either mean the 'girl' he talks about at the end or could just mean love in general.
I personally think Happiness means love.

'Happiness is just outside my window
Would it crash blowing 80-miles an hour?
Or is happiness a little more like knocking
On your door, and you just let it in?'

I think that means that against his 'window' love is trying to get in and is breaking into his heart but with 'her' its just a gentle knock and she can choose whether to let it in or not.

'Happiness feels a lot like sorrow
Let it be, you can�t make it come or go
But you are gone- not for good but for now
Gone for now feels a lot like gone for good'

She's gone and he wants her back

'Happiness is a firecracker sitting on my headboard
Happiness was never mine to hold
Careful child, light the fuse and get away
�Cause happiness throws a shower of sparks'

umm well this is a hard line, It could be that love just isn't for him (cause the girl is gone) yet he still wants to help other people with their lovelife (maybe) but he should 'light the fuse and get away' before he thinks too much about his own love.


'Happiness damn near destroys you
Breaks your faith to pieces on the floor
So you tell yourself, that�s probably enough for now
Happiness has a violent roar
Happiness is like the old man told me
Look for it, but you�ll never find it all
But let it go, live your life and leave it
Then one day, wake up and she�ll be home
Home, home, home'

I think all that is pretty self explainitory with my theory but yeah thats what i think

Happiness means love to me.

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Essayena
04-21-2009

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I've just read the lyrics to this song, but haven't really listened to it as much as the rest.

I regret that I did not read the lyrics sooner, as it sounds just like a poem put to music, and it is very true. It really emphasises the emotional struggle that Isaac was going through as they were making the album, and although quite a dark song it is very clear in its meaning and portrayed message; and gives light to the true meaning of happiness and what its disabling factors actually are in the modern world.

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