Token - Happiness lyrics

Yeah

Ripped jacket with the stains on the surface
He was the kid that everyone
Was happy they weren't
Sitting alone invisible to
Every passing person
Wondering what it would feel like
To have a purpose he never had a childhood
Forced to parent his own parents
Like no child should
His father is a veteran drowning
His memories with liquor
And his mother's taking pills
That doctors give
Her but they only make her sicker
With no sibling to walk through this stuff
No ends, no money, no friends, no buddies
He ain't talking enough
He don't put himself out there
He's awkward too much


Well, who in his life would
He learn that confidence from?
And he sit's behind me in class
One day I heard crying from the back
Finally I turned around and I asked
What was wrong
And the first time I heard his voice
He said "All I know is pain, if this is life
What's the point? Show me what happiness is"

His voice gloomy he looked through me
He said "Show me where happiness is"
Desperateness on his face
I didn't know what to say, I couldn't think
Show me where happiness is, yeah
He put his head down
And he didn't make a sound
Show me where happiness is and I just froze
Like I don't even know, yeah

Perfect makeup even though she don't
Need the extra touch
She was the girl that every
Other girl was jealous of
Silky hair, blue eyes, thin body with
Curves, but her new clothes only
Cover parts of it
She's almost looked at like a goddess to all
Attracts every pair of eyes when
She walks through the hall
But she's likable too
She's not the one to gossip
Evident when you talk to her
She ain't ever pompous
Wealthy home filled with
Knowledge and newness
She was the youngest out of
Three book smart students
And her parents were so proud
Pride was all around her
But I always noticed something was
A little off about her
She sit's in front of me in class
One day I noticed heavy make up on
Her wrist when she passed papers back
After class
I approached her and I asked about it
"She said it don't mean I have
It if I'm around it
Show me where happiness is", damn

I looked into her eyes
I saw her for the first time
Show me where happiness is
I saw regret, she walked away in a sec
Her voice rang through my head
"Show me where happiness is"
I watched her walk away
She became another face what she say?
"Show me where happiness is"
And I just froze like I don't even know

I don't know because I ask myself
The same thing every single day
But every single answer has been vague
How come some appreciate the
Sun after the rain
While others just see the puddles
As if nothing has changed?
And as I watch people living
The life I couldn't take
I wonder if they see a way out mentally
And as I watch people livin'
The life I idolize
I wonder what they feel and what isn't seen
As I watch my whole family take pills for
Depression I wonder what true
Happiness really means
I wonder if because I'm
Genetically predisposed to it
That is the reason I find myself feeling weak
Only sometimes, in and out
I guess it's scarier when you don't have
A reason to be feeling down
Sometimes I just am sometimes I just feel no
One will ever understand
Sometimes I wanna cry
Sometimes I want to crush my family's
So-called medication look in their eyes
And tell them they don't need it as
Long we just have each other
But then sometimes I watch 'em suffer
I just wonder where happiness is

Show me where happiness is