Happiness Writes White

Harvey Danger · Little by Little [2005]

Ariella, 7:30, I don't want to get up yet

Listen to the morning music, cursing the alarm you set

As you know, I've never been a praying man

I don't need a God to make me feel all right

But if you wonder why I never wrote you a song

It's because happiness writes white.



I try to put it into words, but the words just sound like mistakes.

I try to find a set of chords, but you know how long that takes me

I don't trust my fingers, I don't trust my tongue

The work is too important and we're no longer young, after all.

When I consider what you put up with I'm amazed you still have skin

When I consider what you mean to me, it's everything.

It's everything



Ariella, 11:30, I don't want to go to sleep

Turn the TV off already, curse the hours we have to keep

As you know, I've never been a confident man

I've been in the tall grass all my life

Until you came along: now there's one less thing wrong

Even though happiness writes white