The Price of Happiness

I'll quit all these fancy prospects
Rather swim down in my shallow pockets
Don't wrap me in the arms of the football captain
I don't need to borrow his bomber jacket

I'm peaking over now through your picket fence
And your grass is looking brown
All your leaves are sickened
I said no one's home to my toxic friends
They said, "you'll be alone"
And I said, "say less."

They said I'd be mourning in a black dress
Now I'm dancing 'round
Like a damn princess
I don't buy into your back-to-school checklist
I'm not selling out and that's the price of happiness
That's the price of happiness
That's the price of happiness

Am I to blame
If I'm getting really over it
Celeb-obsessed crowds
And the top-perching chauvinists
I won't say aloud how I'm feeling about the fortune list
I'll just write it down while I resign from corporate

I'm peaking over now at your hoarded wealth
And your stocks are heading down
Saved by the bell
I watch you drive home
In your brand new Lexus
Face glued to your phone
Am I supposed to be jealous?

They said I'd be mourning in a black dress
Now I'm dancing 'round
Like a damn princess
I don't buy into your do-or-die bucket list
I'm not selling out and
That's the price of happiness
That's the price of happiness
That's the price of happiness

They said I'd be pinching pennies for my debts
Singing on the street
And drowning in my loneliness
I said I'll count my change with no regrets
Singing in the streets 'cause
That's the price of happiness
That's the price of happiness
That's the price of happiness

They said I'd be mourning in a black dress
Now I'm dancing 'round
Like a damn princess
I don't buy into your do-or-die bucket list
I'm not selling out and that's the price of happiness