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once upon a time there was a girl
her hair was long and black with so ever slight a curl
she'd say she was half mexican
though you'd never know it from her skin
i guess you could say she was pretty white for a half mexican

that girl learned pretty early meth was bad
it'd remind her of those first few years she didn't have her dad
but he's back now with her loving mother
her favorite sister's now her favorite brother
i guess you could say she had a pretty typical american childhood

but she'd dream about the day
she could look in the mirror and say

someday soon you'll have your happy ending
you'll have someone here who loves you more than anything or anyone
you'll have some money tucked away
you'll live to fight another day
you'll raise your head up from a soft pillow every morning

once upon a time there was a boy
his lips formed this half smile that most people would call coy
his heart worked so hard as he slept
you could see his veins pulse in his neck
i'm not exactly sure how healthy that is but i suppose it's charming

that boy had no real family or home
he spent some years in a rotting house with his estranged little brother alone
but when his dad came back a drunken prick
our boy defended himself with an ice pick
i guess you could call it dramatic irony that it went straight through his liver

but he'd dream about the day
he could look in the mirror and say

someday soon you'll have your happy ending
you'll have someone here who loves you more than anything or anyone
you'll have some money tucked away
you'll live to fight another day
you'll raise your head up from a soft pillow every morning

once upon a time that special girl
fell so hard in love with that special boy it forever changed her world
their financial need was so ardent
they went in together on an apartment
also some other weird random guy but that's not really important

well things may have been rocky for a while
but she never tired of makin' him make that cocky-assed half smile
people change all of the time
as long as they lived together everything would be fine
not exactly some magical fairy tale but i suppose it's something

he thought he'd finally found a way
to look her in the eyes and say

someday soon you'll have your happy ending
you'll have someone here who loves you more than anything or anyone
you'll have some money tucked away
you'll live to fight another day
you'll raise your head up from a soft pillow every morning

once upon a time that special girl
couldn't rationalize making that boy the center of her world
she got pissed when he got stoned
and he got pissed when she drank alone
i mean i know nobody's perfect and all that shit but you gotta make progress

so when that special boy went m.i.a.
so-called professionals showed up to take our special girl away
suddenly she found her vision clouded
by all the red flags she had previously doubted
like the fact that he once cooked meth with her ex yeah that's pretty fucked up

it just get harder as you age
to look in the mirror and say
day after day

someday you will have your happy ending
you'll have someone here who loves you more than anything or anyone
you'll have some money tucked away
you'll live to fight another day
you'll raise your head up from a soft pillow every morning

you simply have to find a way
to look in the mirror and say
day after day

someday you will have your happy ending
you'll have someone here who loves you more than anything or anyone
you'll have some money tucked away
you'll live to fight another day
you'll raise your head up from a soft pillow every morning

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from Happy Hour for Sad People, released July 13, 2016

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