A Sad Version of Happy Lyrics

Where is that girl I used to know

Who wanted us to go to Nashville

Wrote me some letters

So many years ago

Back then just out of school

Everything was new and exciting

Had a band and a job so I didn't go

Sometimes a heart can be achin

For the roads not taken

The world's a sad version of happy

I'm taking care of all the little things

Try to do my job go to the gym

Working out these songs in my mind

Searching for a metaphor

To open up a door be enlightened

Meditating on the nature of time

And how the universe and every living thing

Must pass away eventually

And it's a sad version of happy

A sad version of happy

Never had kids but baby if we did

We'd take 'em on a trip to Nashville

See Music Row

Take in a show or two

Be together as a family

Help the kids to see all the beauty

Help 'em deal with the darker things too

They'd be so funny and so cool

They'd be smart and beautiful like you

And it's a sad version of happy

A sad version of happy

The world's a sad version of happy

Just a sad version of happy

And that's all right