Happy Hooker Lyrics

Lyric discussion by liberatepotatoes 

Cover art for Happy Hooker lyrics by Regina Spektor

God, I love this song. Obviously, it's about a hooker. But I think she's being very sarcastic when she adds the "happy" in front of it.

She's talking to a particularly handsome man that's walked into the room (though I doubt he can hear her). She can't help but stare at him 'cause there's "nothing wrong" about him. Or it could be there's nothing wrong with her staring because that's all it is: staring.

She definitely doesn't have much self-worth. She only sees herself as her job she's been doing it so long. She's become jaded from too much "loving." She's not enjoying life or getting anything out of it except all of these "words and more words" she's been saying to this young man. To her, life's nothing more than a long, painful joke.

She secretly wants more, though. To her, as this man fawns on the girl with him, he represents what she wants: true love. Finally, however, she concludes all of this talking to herself isn't going to get her anywhere anyways. She disregards everything she's said, now saying she's just been imagining things because there's really "nothing at all" special about that handsome man across the room.