i create my own happiness

take everything away
my future, my past
new beginnings, old friends,
a toothy smile
i create my own happiness

tell me i'll never walk again
tell me i'll never love
(not that I ever have, but in the same sense
i've loved harder than hathaway)
i create my own happiness

throw me in the darkest corners of the earth
my childhood bedroom
a quiet city, bone-chilling cold
i create my own happiness

she finds a way
my hoping, hapless heart
feverish with desire
high temperature melting the permafrost

and like henson and perry
i too will reach the sky

i create my own happiness