Lyrics
[Broken Piano Intro] [Heavy dissonant hits] [Verse 1] If you're happy and you know it, it's a trick inside your head If you're happy and you know it, you are walking with the dead If you're happy and you know it, let the phantom take control You were never really living, just a body with no soul [Pre-Chorus] So clap your hands and bare your teeth, and smile until it breaks [tempo builds slightly] The promises you swallowed were just beautiful mistakes If you think you feel a heartbeat, it is only in your head Everybody wants a witness, but they look right past the dead [Chorus] If you're happy and you know it, then you're painting on a smile [heavy, dramatic percussion] If you're happy and you know it, let it fester for a while If you're happy and you know it, let it rot beneath the skin In a labyrinth of mirrors, there is nowhere left to win If you're happy and you know it, wake the sorrow in the bone If you're happy and you know it, you were born to be alone If you're happy and you know it, it was all an empty spark Every road you ever followed only left you in the dark [Broken Piano Solo] [Verse 2] If you're lonely and you know it, well, of course, that's expected [music pulls back, sinister and quiet] If you're lonely and you know it, you were never respected If you're lonely and you know it, look around, nobody cares There is no one coming for you up those dark and empty stairs You can dress it up in velvet, call it something it is not You can wait around for love, but you will only sit and rot As the pendulum swings heavy, and the plaster starts to crack You're a corpse without a casket, dragging all the memories back [Pre-Chorus] So clap your hands and bare your teeth, and smile until it breaks [strings swell ominously] The blessings you were given were just beautiful mistakes If you think you feel a heartbeat, it is only in your head Everybody wants a witness, but they look right past the dead [Chorus] If you're happy and you know it, then you're painting on a smile [heavy, dramatic percussion] If you're happy and you know it, let it fester for a while If you're happy and you know it, let it rot beneath the skin In a labyrinth of mirrors, there is nowhere left to win If you're happy and you know it, wake the sorrow in the bone If you're happy and you know it, you were born to be alone If you're happy and you know it, it was all an empty spark Every road you ever followed only left you in the dark [Broken Piano Solo] [Bridge] And the lullaby decays, and the melody turns sour, You are wilting in the garden, like a poisoned little flower Every hand you tried to hold wasn't really even there So you learned to call it living, grasping at the empty air [Break] If you're lonely and you know it... stay a while [music drops out almost entirely] If you're lonely and you know it... force a smile Of the faces that forgot you, of the love you've never known Just a walking, breathing corpse in a house of dust and bone [Final Chorus] If you're happy and you know it, then you're painting on a smile [massive orchestral explosion] If you're happy and you know it, let it fester for a while If you're happy and you know it, let it rot beneath the skin In a labyrinth of mirrors, there is nowhere left to win If you're happy and you know it, wake the sorrow in the bone If you're happy and you know it, you were born to be alone If you're happy and you know it, let the whole world hear you cry You were never really happy, so kiss the fantasy goodbye [Outro] If you're lonely and you know it, weave a crown out of the grief [fading out, solitary piano] If you're lonely and you know it, play the victim and the thief If you're lonely and you know it, you were always on your own Sing your quiet little ruins in the static of the home