If I could look beyond your face
And photograph your hidden place
Would I find you smiling in the picture

I don't know what you want
Because you don't know,
So what's the point of asking

You're almost happy
Almost content
But your head hurts

Far too many ways to go
We learn so much but never know
Where to look
Or when we should stop looking

I can love the whole of you.
The poetry I stole from you
And hide inside my stomach

You're almost happy
Almost content
But your head hurts

It's easy to get lost in you
And fall asleep inside of you
I want to return to you
A reason to be here
A reason to be here

No I don't know what you want
And you don't know
So what's the point of asking

You're almost happy
Almost content
But your head hurts


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Almost Happy Lyrics as written by Sarah Bettens Gert Bettens

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    Wonderful song. To me, it seems to be about two people in a committed yet unfulfilled relationship (either romantic or simply amicable one) that is coming undone due to one’s person’s inability to be satisfied with it. The narrator appears eager to invest his/her heart and soul into the relationship. However, the other individual, for some almost-inexplicable, irrevocable reason, sees unable to do the same (though earnestly wanting to) — to be truly “content” with the bond. Although the reason for said dissatisfaction is obscure, the dissatisfaction itself rears its ugly head within the moments they spent together — as evident in by the fact that the narrator questions whether the person would appear happy (“smiling”) in photographs. And neither really seem to know how to combat it because neither are able to identify why this person’s “head hurts”. Thus, even though the narrator is enamored with the other to the point of it being “easy to get lost in” him/her, the relationship cannot endure because the other is unable to reciprocate that sentiment.

    lunareflectionon July 08, 2011   Link

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