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You Could Be Happy

I never really listened to Snow Patrol’s You Could Be Happy until we started playing it in Lowe’s. [Apparently we’ve now switched to a pretty awesome playlist. I love it!] I recognized it enough to know it was a song I had on my iPod, so I took a listen when I got into the car after hearing it in the store for the first time. Within two days I’m somewhere around 30 listens. I’ve had it on a playlist with just 3 other songs that I’ve kept on repeat.

You could be happy and I won’t know
But you weren’t happy the day I watched you go.

And all the things that I wish I had not said,
Are played in loops till it’s madness in my head.

Is it too late to remind you how we were?
But not our last days of silent screaming blur.

Most of what I remember makes me sure
I should’ve stopped you from walking out the door.

You could be happy I hope you are
You made me happier than I’d been by far

Somehow everything I own, smells of you
and for the tiniest moment it’s all not true.

Do the things that you always wanted to
Without me there to hold you back, don’t think just do

More than anything I want to see you girl
Take a glorious bite out of the whole world

My heart breaks for the narrator here. I think we’ve all been there at some point. You let it all come crashing down, and when the debris settles, you’re left realizing what you just let go–what you pushed away and gave up without a fight. It’s too late to get it back, and you’ve made peace with that, and now you can only hope they’ve found what they need to make peace as well. They can’t be happy with you, time has run out on that possibility, so you just hope they’ve been able to find the happiness they deserve elsewhere.

What a freeing, yet, heartbreaking feeling.

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