Happy Mistake is the twelfth track of Lady Gaga’s Harlequin album. The song is one out of two written for this project, along with Folie à Deux.
Gaga sings about the trauma, pain and loneliness both her and her character Lee Quinzel, from Joker: Folie à Deux, suffer.
[Verse 1]
I'm acting in this play of
Comedy with tragic words
The audience was smilin'
Cheerin' on a scene absurd
[Pre-Chorus]
I can try to hide behind the makeup, but the show must go on
[Chorus]
I feel so crazy
My head is filled with broken mirrors
So many, I can't look away
I'm in a bad way
If I could fix the broken pieces
Then I'd have a happy mistake
[Verse 2]
A lonely disposition
Portraits of a strung-out girl
How'd I get so addicted
To the love of the whole world?
[Pre-Chorus]
I could try to hide behind the makeup, but the show must go on
[Chorus]
I feel so crazy
My head is filled with broken mirrors
So many, I can't look away
I'm in a bad way
If I could fix the broken pieces
Then I'd have a happy mistake
[Bridge]
If I could bottle up a sunny day
So brilliantly
It'd wash away the sad mistakes
And I could hold my heart in a safe place
All I need to breathe
Is one happy mistake
[Outro]
Ooh
Ooh-ah
Make my
Happy mistake
Happy Mistake was produced by Lady Gaga & BloodPop® & Benjamin Rice.
Lady Gaga released Happy Mistake on Fri Sep 27 2024.
At the listening party for the album Harlequin, following the premiere of Joker: Folie à Deux in London on September 25, 2024, Gaga declared:
“Happy Mistake” is a very special song because I wrote it as a reflection on every album that I’ve ever made and all the songs that I’ve ever written. And so...