Happiest in History

from One Happy Island (EP) by One Happy Island

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The songs we sang last winter
have been on my mind
Feeling sad and bitter
from what we've left behind.

Winter into summer.
Sunshine into us.
A memory I've built up
'til it's nothing like it was.

Don't know what I'm asking for anymore
Can't go where I used to go before.

The songs we sang last summer
still ring in my ear.
Now I sit and wonder
as they disappear.

Summer into winter.
The shadows on the floor
were alii could conSider
when I walked out the door.

Where do you go to when the music ends?
When do you try to let new songs begin?

Time has an appetite for apathy.
I know It's hard
to just believe that
we are happiest
in history.

It took a second look but
Boston came alive,
from the public gardens
to private drives.

Out my first-floor window
people march right by.
Some are going somewhere.
Some have just arrived.

The sun's back on the sidewalk
and suddenly I've found
the songs we sang last summer
sound so much sweeter now.

Don't want to anymore, anyhow
I've got to do it like I want to now.

Time has an appetite for apathy.
I know it's hard
to just believe that
we are happiest
in history.

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from One Happy Island (EP), released June 2, 2015

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