Pet Shop Boys — Happiness is an Option

[Intro: Sylvia Mason-James] It is not easy It is not easy [Verse 1: Neil Tennant] Looking from a window At the back of a house At the edge of a town It's grey Like the day when I lost it Clouds overhead I talked to a flower that was almost dead My body a prison Why did I do it? Someone warned me not to but I still went through it Even in a song, you gotta remember that happiness is an option [Chorus 1: Neil Tennant and Sylvia Mason-James] It is not easy But don't give up now So don't give up It is not easy Happiness is an option That happiness is an option [Verse 2: Neil Tennant] Needed somewhere to clear my head Find some strength A warmer bed Maximum love in a minimal world I'd never achieved it But then I believed it So when I lost it, how? I'm not sure now It was a strange feeling Like a law repealing itself [Chorus 1: Neil Tennant and Sylvia Mason-James] It is not easy But don't give up now So don't give up It is not easy Happiness is an option That happiness is an option It is not easy But don't give up now So don't give up It is not easy Happiness is an option Giving it up, you feel like giving it up [Verse 3: Neil Tennant] I can wake up in the morning And not believe what I see Look in the mirror And think if that's really me I don't think I suit my face It's not a catastrophe It's more a philosophy Like the Russians wondering why We're born under a blue sky But die in a dark forest [Chorus 1: Neil Tennant and Sylvia Mason-James] It is not easy But don't give up now So don't give up It is not easy Happiness is an option Happiness is an option It is not easy But don't give up now So don't give up It is not easy Happiness is an option Happiness is an option [Verse 4: Neil Tennant] This is neither old nor new It's always, forever Somewhere between sense and ambition Pleasure and decision We have to make a choice What do we want? Everyone singing 'War! What is it good for?' While planning the next one? I don't need to win You don't have to lose We can choose Happiness is an option [Chorus 2: Neil Tennant and Sylvia Mason-James] It is not easy But don't give up now So don't give up It is not easy Happiness is an option Happiness is an option It is not easy No, not easy The war within us The war within us But it gets easier Easier The more we learn The more we learn I don't need to win I don't need to win, now You don't have to lose You don't have to lose We can choose Happiness is an option [Chorus 2: Neil Tennant and Sylvia Mason-James] It is not easy But don't give up now So don't give up It is not easy Happiness is an option Happiness is an option I don't need to win I don't need to win, now You don't have to lose You don't have to lose We can choose Happiness is an option