The Fray – Happiness

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  General Comment:I don't get it.. Is this song about isaac's grandpa or his wife.. i heard it was about his grandppa remarrying or something..

  Flag silentspeakron March 20, 2012   Link

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  My Interpretation:My favorite part is the first verse:
  
  Happiness was just outside my window
  I thought it'd crash blowing 80-miles an hour
  But happiness is a little more like knocking
  On your door, and you just let it in
  
  To me, it's like, you think finding happiness will be this big event, but it just sneaks up on you. You don't know it's coming. It sounds very gentle and soothing, really different from the firecracker part.

  Flag StuffandNonsenseon June 04, 2010   Link

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  My Opinion:pfft most amazing song hands down! been a fan of the fray for years now and last month i finally got to see them live after 5 years :S when this song came on almost everyone was crying. Issac is so intense when he is singing it is so beautiful.
  just wanted to say how much i love this song :) hehe

  Flag ggaaabbieeon May 09, 2010   Link

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  Song Meaning:At the fray concert I went to it took them over 10 mins to play this song. It was full of such emotion and feeling but all the members of the band. Halfway through Isaac stopped singing and told the story of why he wrote it. He said something like: We usually work through songs for months or years with everyone in the band before we fine tune a song. This song came to me in 10 mins when my wife was away in Australia. I was so sad and just wanted to be with her and this got me thinking about what made me happy, what made me sad and all that stuff. So I wrote this song.
  
  So when he says "But you are gone- not for good but for now, Gone for now feels a lot like gone for good", he is refering to his wife, same with "Let it go, live your life and leave it, then one day wake up and she'll be home". The song is Isaac reflecting on what makes him happy and just happiness in general.

  Flag shoallaon April 27, 2010   Link

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  General Comment:The best of the new cd. Bar none

  Flag LuckyStar123on March 14, 2010   Link

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  General Comment:This song represents life as a whole to me, the struggles we face that stand in the way of happiness, the choices we make in our quest to find happiness, the feeling of desperation we get when happiness is out of our lives, and how that pain skews our outlook on life and happiness...how it feels like it will be gone forever and you just want to give up, but the constant reminder of it leads us to keep searching for it, and ultimatley, how what is meant to be will be, and how in most cases, the thing you're so desperately for usually FINDS YOU...and usually when you least expect it.

  Flag ironhead83on December 16, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:it sounds like what stewart715 said; its about his Grandfather who just lost his wife recently.
  
  "Gone for now feels a lot like gone for good" - shes gone but he will see her again someday, but it feels like and eternity.
  
  and the "she'll be home" part - home with god?
  
  Im not religous at all, but this is what it seems like to me.

  Flag Prettyxsufferingon November 30, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:Well.. first of all i would like to add a note. I know that this site is not just about SONG MEANINGS but the title is SONG MEANINGS.COM... that doesn't mean leave a reply saying...
  OH EM GEE I LOVE THIS SONG SO MUCH!! Well not to be offensive or anything but i think everyone knows you would like this song, i mean why would you even look at the lyrics and listen to the song if you hated the song? well if you do hate it, i mean why would you come here? So maybe this place is a place where you can interpret songs and give your deep meaning to it. With a little nice compliment to go with it. That just what i think of this site.
  
  Back to the song interpretation...
  This song i think has to do with love. and happiness is love (or some girl he loves). and when he said "happiness feels like sorrow" i think it means that love might crush you and break your heart.
  
  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
  
  this part probably means that he probably wasn't meant to be with this person he loves. and the part about the child probably means you should be careful with love or something. really hard to explain. I get it i just can't really explain it.
  
  Pretty much he's saying, happiness is love, you should be careful with it though, it may harm or hurt you sometimes but it will turn out fine in the end.
  
  They have very poetic songs that is much deeper than it seems.

  Flag smartykel808on October 16, 2009   Link

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    I completly agree with everything you said. It's nice to see an accurate precise intepretation of this song. This may sound weird...but you seem super intelligent, stay that way

    Flag Nintenboy1026on December 30, 2009  
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  General Comment:This song is just beautiful.And the story behind it about his Grandpa and about his new Grandma is just beautiful.There is a version of ihm singing this live in St.Louis.Its actually kind of funny, because he messes up in the beginning.Anyways, i basically think this song is about what he thinks Happiness is.Its pretty self explanatory

  Flag CocaineMasqueradeon August 19, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:I think this song is about a dark place he was going through. I just found it before, it really is great. Theyre becoming one of my new favorites bands

  Flag HipsterRickster909on July 27, 2009   Link

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