this town makes my mind slow down
lines in my face like highways now
chasing breezes, kicking boulders
and all of the while just getting older

i leave pieces of paper
pieces of myself along the way
out the window, out the window
and i tell myself that

i'll come back for them before i go
and then i won't sing this song tomorrow

reason calls i'm never listening
there's always something more distracting
and you take everything so seriously
then you leave and burn up on re-entry

for happy endings
all these little victories
gathered up and hung on the wall like trophys
i tell myself that

i've been down this road before
so i won't sing this song anymore

i've been down this road before
so i won't sing this song anymore
i've been down on myself enough before
so i won't sing this song anymore

Well, imagine it's a film & you're the star & pretty
Soon we're coming to the part where you realise that you should give your heart
Oh give your heart to me.
Now the orchestra begins to make a sound
That goes round & round & round & round & round & round & round & round & round again
And we kiss to violins.
Well some sad people might believe in that I guess
but we know better don't we?
We know all about the mess.
The aftermath of our affair is lying all around and I can't clear it away.
No. And d'you think that it's so easy to find?
Somebody who is just your kind?
Well it might take you a little time but I'm going to have to try.
Oh yeah I'm gonna try.
And I know no-one can ever know which way to head
But don't you remember that you once said that you liked happy endings?
And no-one can ever know if it's going to work
But if you try then you might get your happy ending.

So this is midnight
I can feel the coming storm
My perverted butterfly
You begin to be transformed
And we are drained out
Emptied in the atmosphere
Fashionable as suicide
Never thought it'd feel so real

These happy endings are just illusions
Dying every day that we go by
Here i'm stripped naked for the conclusion
It's killing me a little at a time

In this silence
We design a different life
Strategies of compromise
Lovers lose their appetites
And are we hopeless
Underneath the diamond sky
Longing turns to bitterness
Modern love just can't survive

These happy endings are just illusions
Dying every day that we go by
Here i'm stripped naked for the conclusion
It's killing me a little at a time

And i walk and i fall till i can't feel a thing
I am sick of the sound of my own shattered mind
I don't know who i am
I don't know where we all will be

Time does tell
That even if they say so
She'd be the one that would know
That I did do what I've done
And I, I wouldn't call it cheating
I'd just say I was leading her on
Why walk while I run a-way

You- you ask me what went wrong
Me- i'll write you this last song
Please- just tell me one way we can win
One- more thing before I go
Two- the one who loves me so
Three- don't make me count to three again

Happy endings
Just what did you do, If you're a dream then come true
Stop pretending
That what you mean isn't what you say
Hopeful dreaming,
Of times before the pain, wishing it was still the same
Loving, leaving
Round and round and round we go again

Walks a-lone, have often lead to thinking
My love for you is sinking to what seems an all time low
or high, the limits' never ending,
And don't you know I'm sending
There's no venture I won't go
For you

She walks away, she talks away
She walks away
She walks away, she talks away
Away, away...

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And though you will say I'm wrong.
It's much easier with you along.
Sundays were made for this.
Seeing Bond give the villain a kiss ....

Holding your face in the glow
Play on, play on
Happy endings

I thought that you'd like to know.
I'm finally letting her go.
You always said, "Tell me when
You're ready at last to begin."

Learning to chance it again.
Play on, play on
Happy endings

So let them all dissolve
And welcome a new resolve
Here's where the credits run.
Riding off into the sun

And love is real
Reading your eyes in the glow
Play on, play on
Happy endings

Well I love her and she's leaving
She met a man, plays in a band, last weekend
And he lives out on the west coast
She says she's gotta go

But it's a long, long way from Myrtle Beach to L.A.
Anything could change her mind
One sunset or one regret
She could turn around, come back, and be mine
Happy endings happen all the time

She's almost finished packing
It's over 2,000 miles- a lot can happen
There's gonna be days and days of long stretches
Maybe she'll come back to her senses

It's a long, long way from Myrtle Beach to L.A.
Anything could change her mind
One sunset or one regret
She could turn around, come back, and be mine
Happy endings happen all the time

Well I ain't waitin' on no phonecall
I ain't gettin' my hopes up
And I ain't settin' myself up for a fall

But it's still a long, long way from Myrtle Beach to L.A.
Anything could change her mind
One sunset or one regret
She could turn around, come back, and be mine
Then everything would be just fine
Happy endings happen all the time

Oooo yeah they do
It's a long, long way from Myrtle Beach to L.A.

Time does tell
That even if they say so
She'd be the one that would know
That I did do what I've done
And I, I wouldn't call it cheating
I'd just say I was leading her on
Why walk while I run a-way

You- you ask me what went wrong
Me- i'll write you this last song
Please- just tell me one way we can win
One- more thing before I go
Two- the one who loves me so
Three- don't make me count to three again

Happy endings
Just what did you do, If you're a dream then come true
Stop pretending
That what you mean isn't what you say
Hopeful dreaming,
Of times before the pain, wishing it was still the same
Loving, leaving
Round and round and round we go again

Walks a-lone, have often lead to thinking
My love for you is sinking to what seems an all time low
or high, the limits' never ending,
And don't you know I'm sending
There's no venture I won't go
For you

She walks away, she talks away
She walks away
She walks away, she talks away
Away, away...