It frightens me how sweet life can be On my happy days nobody walks beside me Don’t write sad songs anymore, I write about you
I wanna see your face I wanna take you to my place Wanna show you what I made of my life On these happy days Happy days
A gray foggy new years day I resolve to tame this quaking bay House on stilts by the shore All I’ve built is yours
I wanna see your face I wanna take you to my place Wanna show you what I made of my life On these happy days Happy days
Happy and I wanna be Sorry about everything It’s true I misplaced my common sense I was a wildfire but now I’m drenched With you
I wanna see your face I wanna take you to my place Wanna show you what I made
Look what I made A change Look what I made I changed
These are happy days These are happy days These are happy days
Dear Lost Love
I never knew I could love her I never knew I wanted to touch her Just a little mouse playing house And through my little paws My true love was lost
My dear lost love My almost little dove Our years are gone But they could have been long
I can almost see it Now she is far We’ll never be it Just a little mouse playing house And through my little paws My true love was lost
My dear lost love My one they call “the one” Our years are gone But they could have been long Cut short like a lost love song
Better Mistakes
I see you in pieces In every coffee cup that I press And I see you in pieces When I choose not to wear that old dress
What if I’d made better mistakes The kinds we’d have grown to love today And as long as we’d live I’d be yours to forgive If I’d broke us some other way
You showed me all your pieces When you shed your seventh skin And I watched you fall to pieces When you learned you’d never wear them again
What if I’d made better mistakes The kinds we’d have grown to love today And as long as we’d live I’d be yours to forgive If I’d broke us some other way
I see you in pieces I can’t keep them and they’re eager to fade And it all falls to pieces The life we could have made
If I had made better mistakes The kinds we’d have grown to love today And as long as we’d live I’d be yours to forgive If I’d broke us some other way If I’d broke us some other way Wish I’d broke us some other way
What I Never Had
I don't know if I should tell you this But I've been thinking about your rosy lips And I don't wanna say too much But I wonder about your soft touch
If there's a life for us Then I want it dawn to dusk To ease into the day The way we did yesterday
But there's no yesterday And there's no us Just a story that I'm making up And I don't know If you could fall in love But for me You're the only one
And I wanna tell you face to face How thoughts of you consume my days They cut across seven states It's a feeling I can't seem to shake
That there's a life for us Then I want it dawn to dusk To ease into the day The way we did yesterday
But there's no yesterday And there's no us Just a story that I'm making up And I don't know If you could fall in love But for me You're the only one For me You're the only one
And I want you back Want what I never had And I want it bad
There's a life for us Then I want it dawn to dusk To ease into the day The way we did yesterday
Cause for me You're the only one For me You're the only one And I want you back Want what I never had And I want it bad