Happiness Is Gonna Get You – English Lyrics

• By: Allie X
• Album: Happiness Is Going To Get You

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into Allie X's 'Happiness Is Gonna Get You,' a nuanced track from her 2025 album that showcases her evolution as a songwriter. Through its piano-driven, baroque-tinged soundscape, you can learn about themes of surrender and acceptance, making this song a special entry point into her deeply personal and inventive art-pop world.

[English]

There's a hand beckoning to a land I don't know

Indicating to cross the shore

And the water is cold as you're drawn through the floor

Falling, you open your eyes

Counting the years go one by one

The rising sun is swallowing, hollowing

Come with a dream and leave with none

Is someone there observing?

There's a raping in the beauty

You're alive, there's no escape

Happiness is gonna get you

Happiness will make you pay

Like a satellite in free fall

Like a seizure on the floor

Happiness is gonna get you

Better let it in

Happiness is at your door

There's no hiding from time with its pulses and plagues

And the black birds gather their stones

There's a roar in the sky, and a cage in the flame

Do you see it? Can you feel it?

Counting the years go one by one

The setting sun is swallowing, hollowing

Filled with a fear, we run, we run

Before it starts exploding

There's a raping in the beauty

You're alive, there's no escape

Happiness is gonna get you

Happiness will make you pay

Like a satellite in free fall

Like a seizure on the floor

Happiness is gonna get you

Better let it in

Happiness is at the door

Better let it in

Happiness is waiting

Happiness is waiting

Is that your blue fish?

What a good girl

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Key Grammar Structures

• There's a hand beckoning to a land I don't know

  ➔ Existential there + present participle

  ➔ 'beckoning' is a present participle used after 'there's' to describe the hand that calls you.

• Counting the years go one by one

  ➔ Gerund phrase as subject + simple present

  ➔ 'Counting the years' is a gerund phrase acting as the subject, and 'go' is the simple present verb.

• Come with a dream and leave with none

  ➔ Imperative + coordination with and

  ➔ 'Come' and 'leave' are imperatives joined by 'and' to give two related commands.

• Happiness is gonna get you

  ➔ Colloquial 'gonna' for 'going to' + simple future

  ➔ 'gonna' is an informal contraction of 'going to', showing a near-future action.

• Like a satellite in free fall

  ➔ Simile introduced by 'like'

  ➔ 'Like' compares the subject to a satellite, creating a vivid image.

• Better let it in

  ➔ Advisory 'had better' without 'had'

  ➔ 'Better let it in' omits 'had' from 'had better', giving a strong suggestion.

• There's no hiding from time with its pulses and plagues

  ➔ No + gerund to express impossibility

  ➔ 'no hiding' uses 'no' before a gerund to mean you cannot avoid it.

• Is someone there observing?

  ➔ Inversion in a yes/no question + present participle

  ➔ The auxiliary 'is' comes before the subject 'someone', and 'observing' is a present participle showing ongoing action.