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Happiness, is just outside my window
I thought it crashed blowing eighty-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 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
Let it go, live your life and leave it
Then one day, wake up and she'll be home
She'll be, she'll be home
She'll be home
She'll be home
She'll be home
She will be home
She will be home
Yeah,
She'll be home
She'll be home
She'll be.
I thought it crashed blowing eighty-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 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
Let it go, live your life and leave it
Then one day, wake up and she'll be home
She'll be, she'll be home
She'll be home
She'll be home
She'll be home
She will be home
She will be home
Yeah,
She'll be home
She'll be home
She'll be.
Lyrics submitted by WarmLikeSnow
Track duration: 05:23
"Happiness" as written by Isaac Slade, Joseph King, David Welsh, Benjamin Wysocki
Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing
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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.
just wanted to say how much i love this song :) hehe
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.
"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.
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.