The Price of Happiness

I'll quit all these fancy prospects

Rather swim down in my shallow pockets

Don't wrap me in the arms of the football captain

I don't need to borrow his bomber jacket

I'm peakin' over now through your picket fence

And your grass is looking brown

All your leaves are sickened

I said no one's home to my toxic friends

They said, "you'll be alone"

And I said, "say less."

They said I'd be mourning in a black dress

Now I'm dancin' round like a goddamn princess

I don't buy into your back-to-school checklist

I'm not selling out and

That's the price of happiness

That's the price of happiness

That's the price of happiness

Am I a bitch

If I'm getting really over it

Celeb obsessed crowds

And the top perching chauvinists

I won't say aloud how I'm feeling about the fortune list

I'll just write it down while

I resign from corporate (resign from corporate)

I'm peaking over now at your hoarded wealth

And your stocks are heading down

Saved by the bell

I watch you drive home in your brand new Lexus

Face glued to your phone

Am I supposed to be jealous?

They said I'd be mourning in a black dress

Now I'm dancin' round like a goddamn Princess

I don't buy into your

Do-or-die bucket list

I'm not selling out and

That's the price of happiness

That's the price of happiness

That's the price of happiness

They said I'd be pinching pennies for my debt

Singing on the street

And drowning in my loneliness

I said I'll count my change with no regrets

Singing in the street

Cause that's the price of happiness

That's the price of happiness

That's the price of happiness

They said I'd be mourning in a black dress

Now I'm dancin' round like a goddamn princess

I don't buy into your

Do-or-die bucketlist

I'm not selling out and

That's the price of happiness