Seen with one eye open There's a world that is full of light It's brilliant and shining in color and black and white But as I look ahead now All is seen through a lens of fear My focus is narrow, my vision is so unclear And I've grown colder Each year I've grown older And there's no sign of slowing down or changing my ways And I'm always with my camera But I'm never in the frame And my life is full of other people's happy days In the dappled sunshine In the fields of yellow-green You look the loveliest that I have ever seen And on the darkest stages Where a single light shines down The whole room starts smiling whenever you make a sound And I'll stand before you As they adore you And I'll save that for you, this moment of joy and of grace And I'm right in front of everyone, but you'll never see my face And my life is full of other people's happy days And my life has a color cast The lighting is all wrong I feel just like a polaroid That someone shook too long And every moment, every day's Composed and framed just so And I perfect my life away With nothing much to show Stacks of pictures on the floor Ones you'll hang in your living room by the door And they'll tell the story of the way that your life unfurled I'll deliver them to you in a neat little package of happy proof That you've been here and you've done this And you'll live on in this little world But I'll watch as time flies I'll stand on sidelines And I'll find these goldmines But I'll give them away And you'll take them in your open arms And you'll put 'em on display And I'll live my life through other people's happy days Happy days Happy days Happy days