Happy may not be the best known musician and lyricist in the world but her songs show a depth and quality that is too often missing from the manufactured 'pop' that accounts for too large a proportion of today's music.
Below are some 'ankhst'-ridden quotes from a selection of her songs. For a variety of reasons, these lyrics are especially significant to me.
- Why do you love, weak little thing? You never could handle the hurting.
- I love harder than most do I've made my heart painfully too true.
- I know there's life beyond this black embrace.
- not you, or her, can say who I am
- I was destined to be slain, So I'll die for you again.
- The roots you wanted to grow Will never take you know.
- Everything I do is madness
Everything I say is neither here nor there
Well if I do exist, then does it follow that I am
Who I am is who I mean to be.
- Every night I go to sleep and dream of what I seek.
- I am a fleeting thought, cherish and remember. Tomorrow I'll be gone.
- there aren't worlds enough to conatin her innocence
- I was born with a perchant for sadness.
- I wish I could promise I'll be there when you dream.
- How can you just turn away My spirit fades each day you make me stay.
- And with your face comes laughter And with your touch comes joy.
- This is the last time that I should care.
- I have perfected the art of dying well
- I was destined to be slain, So I'll die for you again.
- face the truth just once for me.
- But don't let my courage die Please don't let my brothers cry.
- There you walk right by, can't
you see I'm dying?
Oh so cruel, just passing me by, can't you see I'm dying?
Can you not feel me dying?
- There's an ideal person hiding, lurking, waiting inside of me.
- I don't know how she survived, with everybody eating her alive.
- Oh memories, aren't they fun, fun like a heart attack.
- How does my sorrow find me here? I have lived, I have loved, Enough for all my time.
- There's a little bit of you in me, You can't escape what you became.
- Although we share pain and despair Somehow you are predisposed to suffer the most.
- Everything that I loved is no more
- I want to be wise enough to see
ahead
I want to be closer to lying dead
I don't need to live the same pain.