Happy Hearts - Okkervil River

Why must happy hearts break so hard?

Leave you curled up in the back seat of a car

Staring up at the windshield

When will broken hearts learn how to heal?

This boy I knew was five years older than me

His daddy left him when he was three

After we went walking by a stream

He held me down and made me feel as bad as he

Why must happy hearts break so hard?

Leave you standing in the darkness of the barn

Staring at those rusty wheels

When will broken hearts learn how to heal?

And everybody is searching for a place to put their love

See the people on the street, they go home, and what do you think they dream of?

Unconditional love

Why did you leave me?

Mother, oh, why do you sleep with him?

He says he is smothering, then he comes back again

In our house for the weekend

Why must people is breaking hearts pretend?

Why must happy hearts break so hard?

Leave you staring in the mirror of a bar

Leave you talking to yourself

Because you cannot talk to anybody else