Happiness is just outside my window
Would it crash blowing 80-miles an hour?
Or is happiness a little more like knocking
On your door, and you just let it in?
Happiness feels a lot like sorrow
Let it be, you can’t make it come or go
But you are gone- not for good but for now
Gone for now feels a lot like gone for good
Happiness is a firecracker sitting on my headboard
Happiness was never mine to hold
Careful child, light the fuse and get away
‘Cause happiness throws a shower of sparks
Happiness damn near destroys you
Breaks your faith to pieces on the floor
So you tell yourself, that’s probably enough for now
Happiness has a violent roar
Happiness is like the old man told me
Look for it, but you’ll never find it all
But let it go, live your life and leave it
Then one day, wake up and she’ll be home
Home, home, home
Ok, my gay friend received this from his "person", not his bf or anything, but their just more than friends.
2007-07-20 22:15:33 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Family & Relationships ➔ Singles & Dating
My friend that recieved it is having doubts about what type of situation that thier in and doesnt know if he still wants to continue what hes doing with this guy, and I think the dude is noticing it and thats why he wrote it and sent it to him.
2007-07-20 22:16:42 · update #1
The poem is about being afraid of being in love. It's about being afraid to let that thing in that truely makes you happy because it can go away just as easily. It's a testiment to the heart. The metaphores mostly seem to be about love, the ups and downs and the reasons why he's afraid of it. But it won't go away, and it won't come to you by force. If it's there it's there. You can destroy it on your own, or you can let it ride until it ends. You gotta look at the key phrases.
The first verse is asking the question, do you know you're happy, is it obvieous or subtle?
The second verse is about the sarrow of that thing that is not there with you that makes you feel happy. That brings you peace and every moment spent away from that person is an eternity.
The third verse is basically saying it's where he sleeps, and when you feel it it's like sparks egniting inside you and around you everything seems to explode but becareful when it rains down on you because it's downfall is a horrible thing
It goes into the fourth verse that describes the downfall. The thing that most people want to be complacent and fear happiness for is because when it ends it hurts like hell. And the memory echos in your ear like a violent roar
The Fifth verse describes the persuit of happiness in that the more you search for it the less likely you are to find it. Let it come in it's own time. And if the thing that makes you happy is truely meant to be it'll return to you and you'll be happy again, and feel the peace of it all return.
2007-07-20 22:30:00 · answer #1 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
OK... Um...
The first stanza is talking about how he is trying to find happiness... He doesn't know from where it is coming or how.
The second stanza says that he has no control over his own happiness, in the same sense that he cannot control whether 'you' are with him.
The third stanza says that he has never been truly happy because happiness always brings about consequences of explosive proportions for him.
The fourth stanza describes his specific feelings about happiness. It shows that his bad luck with happiness in the past is going to influence his judgment in the future. It makes him wary, cynical.
The final stanza is kinda confusing. It says that as long as you look for happiness, you'll never find it. So instead, you should just live your life day-to-day until it's over.
If this is supposed to be a gay love poem, honey, I'm not sure what to say about it. It sounds like the guy was happy with your friend at first, but Friend did something that really hurt the writer, even though Friend probably isn't aware of it.
Of course, this is just my interpretation...
Hope this is somewhat helpful?!....
2007-07-21 05:27:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's a song by The Fray.
What it means is: Happiness is something unexpected, just like sorrow is. You never look for happiness or sorrow, but they're always there when you least expect it. If you try and look for happiness or sorrow, you'll never find them because you need to live your life in order to have them. If you don't feel sorrow, you don't appreciate happiness and if you don't know what happiness feels like, you don't know understand what sorrow is.
Basically, it's trying to explain the balance in life and why you need both and how both unexpected happiness and sorrow can have their ups and downs.
2007-07-21 05:24:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is just a poem about happiness. He seems to have been hurt in the past by someone with whom he was once happy. You cannot find happiness, it will find you when you are not looking for it anymore. That is about the whole idea of the poem.
2007-07-21 05:20:45 · answer #4 · answered by Angelic Valentine 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
first let me say l think this poem is powerful of wisdom and he also put alot of thought into it..as for the writer and your friend l think he is expressing himself, my translation is 'you make me happy and what we have lm not ready to let go, dont leave me out or shut me out YET because my happiness will go out the window or door and am not ready spare me the pain'
Ps. hope it makes sense
2007-07-21 05:26:51 · answer #5 · answered by judie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the poem just wants to express friendship and the opening of oneself to another to explain what happiness means to him or who he is it is neither a confession,just something to make your friend be able to understand who that person is, nothing really harmful
2007-07-21 05:19:21 · answer #6 · answered by haringmarumo 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think your last added note told it all. That's where it is: ending, and making the writer feel sad.
2007-07-21 05:23:03 · answer #7 · answered by Princess Picalilly 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds suicidal to me.
2007-07-21 05:18:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
simple poem.. doesnt look nedifferent .. but takes time to understand
2007-07-21 08:28:47 · answer #9 · answered by Sigmund 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋