Happiness is lost

[Verse 1]
Happiness is lost
Lost
Like a path worn smooth
Then gone
Maybe it just walked past my doorway
Maybe I chased a ghost too long

Youthful years in my chest
Buzzing like an early spring
Flood of feelings
Wild and rising
We were carried
We were drowning in the thing

[Chorus]
Where does the trail of happiness lead?
Over this hill
Or out to the sea?
Is it hiding in the cracks of a Tuesday?
In the faces that I forget to see?
I keep reaching through the ordinary air
For something that was never really there

[Verse 2]
Old hopes drifted
Pale and distant
Like old paint flaked from a wall
In the space they left
A faint new brightness
Quiet
Careful
Small

Still I pace the same worn carpet
Counting years like coffee spoons
Every morning
Same obsession
Checking every empty room

[Chorus]
Where does the trail of happiness lead?
Over this hill
Or out to the sea?
Is it hiding in the cracks of a Tuesday?
In the faces that I forget to see?
I keep reaching through the ordinary air
For something that was never really there