Happy That Way Lyrics

happy that way This is my street as it stretches From the pharmacy to the grocery store And back And these are those pretty blue houses where the women carry babies in their bellies Not born yet Who I would ask if they really wanna come here where you earn good money with bad lies And where every little decision has to to be part of a bigger compromise so what would they say? I bet they're happy that way The welcoming sign to earth Is blue and blinding Like the hospital ceiling light. And you'll slip into this system Of doctors and presidents And you'll ask yourself how they can sleep at night do they strip off their bad conscience before they go to bed or have they stripped off their conscience right after the first citizen dead but if you asked them what would they say I bet they're happy that way They'll bring you down a hundred times You're not safe from that authority and bureaucracy will make you sad and depressed and eventually they will keep you from speaking out loud and make you believe what they're doing is what you should be proud of and you'll browse through holiday brochures and women's magazines who'll teach with those ugly legs you better stay in and with every lollipop you buy you're part of a commercial system and support those horrible factories you hope you'll never have never to work in I find it hard myself and I hope you're stronger than me Maybe you jump up and shout: that's not the right way to be And what I hope is when I ask you then What you would say is I'm not happy this way No I'm not happy this way.