Happy Ending Lyrics
This is the way you left me, I'm not pretending
No hope, no love, no glory, no happy ending
This is the way that we love, like it's forever
Then live the rest of our life but not together
[Verse 1: MIKA]
Wake up in the mornin', stumble on my life
Can't get no love without sacrifice
If anything should happen, I guess I wish you well
Mm, a little bit of heaven, but a little bit of hell
[Pre-Chorus: MIKA]
This is the hardest story that I've ever told
No hope or love or glory, happy endings gone forever more
[Chorus: MIKA]
I feel as if I'm wasted
And I'm wastin' every day
[Refrain: Ida Falk Winland]
This is the way you left me, I'm not pretending
No hope, no love, no glory, no happy ending
This is the way that we love, like it's forever
Then live the rest of our life but not together
Two o'clock in the mornin', something's on my mind
Can't get no rest, keep walkin' around
If I pretend that nothin' ever went wrong
I can get to my sleep, I can think that we just carried on
[Pre-Chorus: MIKA]
This is the hardest story that I've ever told
No hope or love or glory, happy endings gone forever more
[Chorus: MIKA]
I feel as if I'm wasted
And I'm wastin' every day
Oh, I feel as if I'm wasted
(This is the way you left me, I'm not pretending)
(No hope, no love, no glory, no happy ending)
And I'm wastin' every day
(This is the way that we love, like it's forever)
(Then live the rest of our life but not together)
[Bridge: MIKA, Ida Falk Winland]
Little bit of love
Little bit of love (Little bit of love, little bit of love)
(Little bit of love, little bit of love)
(Little bit of love, little bit of love)
(Little bit of love, little bit of love)
Mm, little bit of love (Little bit of love, little bit of love)
(Little bit of love, little bit of love)
Little bit of love (Little bit of love, little bit of love)
(Little bit of love, little bit of love)
Little bit of love (Little bit of love, little bit of love)
Little bit of love (Little bit of love, little bit of love)
Little bit of love (Little bit of love, little bit of love)
Little bit of love, little bit of love, love (Little bit of love, little bit of love)
I feel as if I'm wasted
(Little bit of love, little bit of love)
(Little bit of love, little bit of love)
(Little bit of love, little bit of love)
(Little bit of love, little bit of love)
And I'm wastin' every day
(Little bit of love, little bit of love)
(Little bit of love, little bit of love)
(Little bit of love, little bit of love)
Hey, hey, hey, hey
(Little bit of love, little bit of love)
[Refrain: Choir]
This is the way you left me, I'm not pretending
(Little bit of love, little bit of love)
(Little bit of love, little bit of love)
No hope, no love, no glory, no happy ending
(Little bit of love, little bit of love)
(Little bit of love, little bit of love)
This is the way that we love, like it's forever
(Little bit of love, little bit of love)
(Little bit of love, little bit of love)
Then live the rest of our life but not together
(Little bit of love, little bit of love)
(Little bit of love, little bit of love)
This is the way you left me, I'm not pretending
(Little bit of love, little bit of love)
(Little bit of love, little bit of love)
No hope, no love, no glory, no happy ending
(Little bit of love, little bit of love)
(Little bit of love, little bit of love)
This is the way that we love, like it's forever
(Little bit of love, little bit of love)
(Little bit of love, little bit of love)
Then live the rest of our life but not together
(Little bit of love, little bit of love)
(Little bit of love, little bit of love)
This is the way you left me, I'm not pretending
No hope, no love, no glory, no happy ending
About
Mika described the story behind the song:
“It’s about a few things. In a way, it’s a kind of sad break-up song like ‘My Interpretation.’ But, at the same time, it’s about a lot of other things. I’ll never forget when I was actually recording this song in Los Angeles, I would take this drive from where I was staying to the studio, which wasn’t in the city and the amount of homeless people I saw on the way was absolutely shocking. Those horrible images of homelessness that I would see every morning really connected with that song. So it just comes to show you that a bright song in a certain mindset had a meaning that really evolves and changes as time goes by. I think that it is very important that other listeners find their own meaning to songs. So many people are very openly suggestive to the point of being abstract. It’s the most powerful thing when that becomes the song.”
The woman singing with Mika in “Happy Ending” on the album is Ida Falk Winland, an opera singer and former classmate of Mika from the Royal College of Music.
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
- 1.Grace Kelly
- 2.Lollipop
- 4.Love Today
- 7.Billy Brown
- 10.Happy Ending
- 11.Over My Shoulder
- 12.Ring Ring
- 13.Erase
