I feel this song is really best described in 2 parts.
In the first part, he's telling us to seize life. How this is our life, and we just need to live it. There might be "so many reasons to be down", but it doesn't matter, cuz in the end we're all going to be fine. It's all how you look at life and he's on a high just from living. He says there's no conspiracy of happiness, we can just be happy without needing a reason.
But then at the very end he kinda puts a bitter twist to what he says in the beginning. It's like he's tried so hard to convince everyone that he's happy all the time, but it backfired and now he feels trapped b/c he can't admit that he has negative feelings to anyone. That's why he says "and I lied and I lied and I wish you hadn't seen it 'cause I'm trapped inside my conspiracy of happiness"
Personally I feel that we should find a happy medium. We shouldn't dwell on all the reasons to be sad, and we should live our lives to the fullest, but at the same time, we shouldn't be so delusional as to ignore all the bad things in life.
I feel this song is really best described in 2 parts.
In the first part, he's telling us to seize life. How this is our life, and we just need to live it. There might be "so many reasons to be down", but it doesn't matter, cuz in the end we're all going to be fine. It's all how you look at life and he's on a high just from living. He says there's no conspiracy of happiness, we can just be happy without needing a reason.
But then at the very end he kinda puts a bitter twist to what he says in the beginning. It's like he's tried so hard to convince everyone that he's happy all the time, but it backfired and now he feels trapped b/c he can't admit that he has negative feelings to anyone. That's why he says "and I lied and I lied and I wish you hadn't seen it 'cause I'm trapped inside my conspiracy of happiness"
Personally I feel that we should find a happy medium. We shouldn't dwell on all the reasons to be sad, and we should live our lives to the fullest, but at the same time, we shouldn't be so delusional as to ignore all the bad things in life.
Really catchy song.