Written for the Zero To Phantom Songfight.
The Rhodes is super-saturated, Herbie Hancock style. I was actually going for Radiohead, but the consensus is I got Seal playing the Doogie Howser theme.
Mark Twain said “Happiness is a Swedish sunset - it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it.” The paradox he described resonates with me: most of us long to be happy, but we spend our time looking the ‘other way’, and manage to avoid it.
We even acknowledge that happiness is a choice, that our emotional state is not necessarily governed by our environment. We can choose to be happy in spite of circumstances that do not warrant it. Yet paradoxically, when we do make choices, we choose paths beset with roadblocks to happiness. We choose friendships of convenience. We choose to please others. We choose to live beneath our expectations of ourselves, and we choose to blame the world when we come up short.
“I want to be happy,” we still believe. “But I must not allow myself to be happy.”
we talk, and the darkness hangs over me
from the touch of her lips, to the edge of her chair
I’m all out of reasons to go
At a stop by the water a chance to disappear
but the best time to go has long gone
from the damage she�s doing to my broken insides
It’s my place to please everyone
I’m a child, I’m a child, she’s a hole in my life
we’re the talk of the town, the talk of the night
I must go, I must go, I must leave her alone
I’m so much better than this
She is a blank face, resigned to her cause
I fight the consequence out of mind
From the sighs that mean zero, to phantom remorse
I’ve shaken off worse things before
I’m a child, I’m a child, she’s a hole in my life
we’re the talk of the town, the talk of the night
I must go, I must go, I must leave her alone
I’m so much better than this
I want more than anything
To be broken and trivial
It�s anyone�s fault but mine
Anyone�s fault yeah and
I%9�2ѵo much better
I�m so much better than this