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Happiness Lyrics by Erin Mackey, Matthew Scott

Sondheim on Sondheim (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

2010

[CLARA]
I'm so happy
I'm afraid I'll die
Here in your arms
What would you do
If I died
Like this—
Right now
Here in your arms?
That we ever should have met
Is a miracle—
[GIORGIO]
No, inevitable—
[CLARA]
Then inevitable, yes
But I confess
It was the look—
[GIORGIO]
The look?
[CLARA]
The sadness in your eyes
That day
When we glanced
At each other in the park
[GIORGIO]
We were both unhappy
[CLARA]
Unhappiness can be seductive
[GIORGIO]
You pitied me
[CLARA & GIORGIO]
How quickly pity leads to lovе
[CLARA]
All this happiness
Merely from a glancе in the park
So much happiness
So much love
[GIORGIO]
I thought I knew what love was
[CLARA]
I wish we might have met so much sooner
I could have given you—
[GIORGIO]
I thought I knew what love was
[CLARA]
—My youth
[GIORGIO]
I thought I knew how much I could feel
[CLARA]
All the time we lost...
[GIORGIO]
I didn't know what love was
[CLARA]
I've never known what love was
[GIORGIO]
But now—
[CLARA]
And now—
[CLARA & GIORGIO]
— I do
It's what I feel with you
The happiness I feel with you
[CLARA]
So much happiness—
[GIORGIO]
You are so beautiful...
[CLARA]
—Happening by chance
In a park
[GIORGIO]
Not by chance
By necessity—
[CLARA]
Surely, this is happiness—
[GIORGIO]
By the sadness that we saw
In each other
[CLARA]
—No one else
Has ever felt before!
[CLARA & GIORGIO]
Just another love story
That's what they would claim
Another simple love story—
Aren't all of them the same?
[CLARA]
No, but this is more
We feel more!
[CLARA & GIORGIO]
This is so much more!
Like every other love story
Some say happiness
Comes and goes
Then this happiness
Is a kind of happiness
No one really knows
[GIORGIO]
I thought I knew what love was
[CLARA]
I'd only heard what love was
[GIORGIO]
I thought it was no more than a name
For yearning
[CLARA]
I thought it was what kindness became
[GIORGIO]
I'm learning—
[CLARA]
I thought where there was love there was shame
[GIORGIO]
—That with you—
[CLARA]
But with you—
[BOTH]
—There's just happiness
[CLARA]
Endless happiness...
Credits
Erin Mackey

Erin Mackey

Matthew Scott

Matthew Scott

About “Happiness” by Erin Mackey

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"Happiness" appears on "Sondheim on Sondheim (Original Broadway Cast Recording)" in 2010.

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