Hey, kid, don't quit your daydream yet
I know you feel locked out in the cold
Seems like you’re lost and alone
Hey, kid, don't listen to your head
It only fills you with dread and with doubt
Left looking for an easy way out
[Pre-Chorus]
I know you don't know
Oh no, you don’t know
[Chorus]
I wanna feel happy days, happy days
Happy days, happy days
Walls of isolation inside of my pain
And I don't know if I'm ready to change
I wanna feel happy days, happy days
Happy days, happy days
All of this frustration inside of my brain
And I don't know if I'm ready to change
[Verse 2]
Some nights, you call for the jaws of life
To pull you out of the crash
A forgotten ghost from your past
When enough doesn't cut it
When you're backed up against a wall
Is it the life that you wanted
When you could never have it all?
I wanna feel happy days, happy days
Happy days, happy days
Walls of isolation inside of my pain
And I don't know if I’m ready to change
I wanna feel happy days, happy days
Happy days, happy days
All of this frustration inside of my brain
And I don’t know if I'm ready to change
[Bridge]
Face down in the deep end
Face down every weekend
Face down and I’m bleeding
There's no sound when you're leaving
We faced all of our demons
We chased all of our dreams and
Don't know where it leads us
We don’t care at all
[Chorus]
I wanna feel happy days, happy days
Happy days, happy days
Walls of isolation inside of my pain
And I don't know if I'm ready to change
I wanna feel happy days, happy days
(Face down in the deep end)
Happy days, happy days
(Face down every weekend)
All of this frustration inside of my brain
And I don't know if I'm ready to change
About
The third single from blink-182’s 8th studio album, “Happy Days” tackles themes of chasing your dreams during hard times and not giving up. The song is the first track after Tom’s departure from the band that features vocals solely from Mark.
The song was released on the 1st of July, the 182nd day of the year – the band commented on this on instagram:
It’s the 182nd day of the year which means it’s blink-182 day! To celebrate, here is our new song “Happy Days.” Consume it where you usually consume music.
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
In an interview with Zane Lowe on Beats 1, Mark Hoppus explains the meaning of the song:
It’s about coming from a place of frustration and anger and saying fuck it, and just saying ‘I wanna go to better times, I wanna be in a better place, I’m gonna leave all this shitty nonsense behind and find my zone.’
Travis Barker then explains where the song was conceived:
I had actually started the idea for this song at my house. I have a little studio at my house. It was just a beat, and then we got into my studio in North Hollywood, and it kinda [became] what you just heard now.
This song, we got in the studio with a producer, Tim Pagnotta and a lyricist, Sam Hollander, who we worked with on “Blame it on my Youth.” And we were wrapping up the album recording and we were like, “Oh, let’s just get in and see if anything happens.” And we got in the studio, we started talking. We were talking about negative thoughts, the thoughts that creep into your head when you’re awake late at night and that sometimes you have to push through that and make yourself get to a better place. And that’s what this song is about.
We have known Tim Pagnotta for a while now. He played in a band called Sugarcult, who we loved, and Blink took on tour a whole bunch, and we haven’t seen him again until we started working on this record and we wanted to get different vibes from different producers and so we worked with a lot of different people. And when we got in the studio with Tim, I don’t know, it just really clicked quickly. All of the Sugarcult guys were always rad. And so getting in the studio with him was, I don’t know, it felt like shorthand.
- 2.Happy Days
- 3.Heaven
- 4.Darkside
- 7.Run Away
- 8.Black Rain
- 10.Pin the Grenade
- 12.Ransom
- 13.On Some Emo Shit
- 14.Hungover You
- 16.Out of My Head