Bernadette Peters
Happiness (Live)
I'm so happy
I'm afraid I'll die
Here in your arms
What would you do
If I died
Like this
Right now
Here in your arms?

That we ever should have met
Is a miracle
No, inevitable—
Inevitable, yes
But I confess
It was the look—
That look
The sadness in your eyes
That day
When we glanced
At each other in the park

We saw that we were both unhappy
I needed you
He needed me
How quickly need can lead to love
All this happiness
Merеly from a glance in the park
So much happiness
So much lovе

I thought I knew what love was
I wish we could have met so much sooner
I thought I knew what love was
I thought I knew how much I could feel

I didn't know what love was
But now I do
It's what I feel with you
The happiness I feel with you

So much happiness
Happening by chance in a park
Surely, this is happiness
No one else has ever felt before

Just another love story
That's what they would claim
Another simple love story
Aren't all of them the same?

No, but we feel more
This is more
We feel so much more
Like every other love story
Some say happiness
Comes and goes
Then this happiness
Is a kind of happiness
No one really knows

I never knew what love was
I thought it was no more than a name for yearning
I thought it was what kindness became
I'm learning
I thought where there was love there was shame
But with you
There's just happiness

Endless happiness
Endless happiness
Endless
Endless