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Ed Harcourt
Strangers
Only Happy When You're High

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Only Happy When You're High

Release date: 13th September 2004

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About This Track

"Only Happy When You're High" is a track by Ed Harcourt, from the album Strangers, released 13th September 2004. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Ed Harcourt

Ed Harcourt

Lyrics

Only Happy When You're High

One. two. three

It's funny, when losing your head

It feels like in a hospital bed

It's funny, losing our minds, and irony is dead

It's been for a long time

Forgetful, I miss place your name

I've met you before, when I'm just insane

You took all the drugs, they made you worse

You've got to do somethin' cause your life is cursed

You and I are only happy when we're high

You and I are only happy when we're high

Great pretenders in love with a lie

I touched in your hand, which one should i try?

You fear the truth, and now paranoid

If we go on about this, we'll both be destroyed

You and I are only happy when we're high

You and I are only happy when we're high

You and I are only happy when we're high

You and I are only happy when we're high

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Track details

From Strangers

2004

Album

Release year

2004

—Born in the '70s
—Black Dress
—Kids (Rise from the Ashes)
—Let Love Not Weigh Me Down
—Only Happy When You're High
—Music Box
—Open Book
—Something to Live For
—Strangers
—This One's for You
—The Trapdoor
—The Storm Is Coming

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Ed Harcourt — Under the Still and Lonely Sky
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Ed Harcourt — The Low Spirits
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Ed Harcourt — A Ghost Walked Through Me
Ed Harcourt — Relentless
Ed Harcourt — Sleep Sleep Little Boy
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Ed Harcourt — Anvils & Hammers
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Ed Harcourt — Into the Loving Arms of Your Enemy
Ed Harcourt — Deathless
Ed Harcourt — Strange Beauty
Ed Harcourt — Drowning in Dreams
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Ed Harcourt — Fruit Fly
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Credited: Jari Haapalainen