This entire song is looking back at a relationship and asking if the person is happy to have learned from the relationship or would they go back and un-meet the person. Overall the relationship taught both people a lot about what they want, what they need, and how they’re going to move forward.
[Verse 1]
Another fight where no one wins again
'Cause we don't care if we're careful anymore
So you hurt me and then I hurt you back
[Pre-Chorus]
Do you remember how tangled we got in our feelings?
Caught up on the small things
And I know I thought that pain's a part of love
But I think I broke you, though I didn't mean to
[Chorus]
But are you happy looking back at us
When you met me?
Would you go back and tell yourself to leave it
Knowing what we know?
Or are you happy that we happened in our twenties?
So you know what you want isn't with me
Would you go back and tell yourself to leave it
Knowing how it goes?
Or are you happy that we happened? Ah
[Post-Chorus]
Ah, ah, ah
[Verse 2]
You taught me how to let somebody in
And how to let go of someone you love
To fall apart and then get up again
[Pre-Chorus]
'Cause I remember how deeply we fell in our feelings
Head first without reason
And I know I thought that pain's a part of love
But I think you broke me, though you didn't mean to
[Chorus]
But are you happy looking back at us
When you met me?
Would you go back and tell yourself to leave it
Knowing what we know?
Or are you happy that we happened in our twenties?
So you know what you want isn't with me
Would you go back and tell yourself to leave it
Knowing how it goes? (How it goes)
Or are you happy that we happened? Ah
[Post-Chorus]
Ah, ah, ah
Are you happy that we happened? Ah
Ah, ah, ah
[Outro]
Are you happy looking back at us
When you met me?
Would you go back and tell yourself to leave it
Knowing what we know?
Or are you happy that we happened? Ah
Are You Happy? was written by SHY Martin & Rasmus Budny & Kristin Carpenter.
Are You Happy? was produced by Fredrik Häggstam & Rasmus Budny.
SHY Martin released Are You Happy? on Fri Aug 07 2020.