Happiness by the Kilowatt

City and Colour is the recording alias for Juno Award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter Dallas Green, who was also the guitarist and vocalist of the post-hardcore band Alexisonfire. He plays melodic acoustic and folk music and is often accompanied by a rotating number of Canadian indie rock musicians, such as Daniel Romano and Spencer Burton of Attack in Black. The name City and Colour comes from his own name: Dallas, a city, and Green, a colour. His reasoning for the name was that he felt queasy "putting the album out under the name Dallas Green". Green said that he had been writing material since he was around the age of 14. Regarding the songs released on his first album, Sometimes, Green said that he had been writing material for it as early as when he w… more »

Year:: 2007
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So this is continuous happiness
You know, I always imagined it something more
With the right drapes, the right paints
The right frames, this could really work
What a great day to spend indoors

[Chorus]
Wake, wake up, wake, wake up
Wake, wake up, wake, wake up
Wake, wake up, wake, wake up
Wake, wake up, wake, wake up

In a hail of sparks
And a tangle of wires
Everything went wrong

So where has all the day gone?
And why are my lungs aching when I breathe?
Is there something wrong with the heat? Why am I so cold?
And my heart feels sick and it hurts when I speak
And this is not what I hoped for

[Chorus]

Was this what we hoped for?
Was this what we hoped for?
Was this what we, what we hoped for?
Was this what we hoped for?
Was this what we hoped for?
Was this?

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Written by: Chris Steele, Dallas Green, George Pettit, Jesse Ingelevics, Wade Macneil

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