This song is what happens when you spend too much time riding late-night public transit and thinking existential thoughts. Make Me Happy dives into that familiar, unsettling feeling of being overlooked yet simultaneously judged. It’s about the desire to escape the grinding reality of adulthood and just feel that simple, unburdened joy of being a child again, even if only for the fleeting duration of a cheap cigarette. We wrote it after Abby forgot the bus schedule and spent an hour freezing near a river, reflecting on the profound difference between wishing for happiness and actually achieving it. We apologize in advance if this track makes you slightly melancholic and encourages you to buy a train ticket to nowhere.

Make Me Happy (Sethares & Straus)

Winding, grinding down dark alleyways
To where bright lights never shine
In the deep of the city
Those men look so fine
But their eyes press against me
What do those eyes really see

So won’t you please release me
Take these chains from my body
Make me happy, like I was a child

Cold wind rush across the river
Empty station crying for a train
Smoke my last cigarette, fold up my magazine
As the night lays her veil down, and sighs

What does it mean to be down here
Where the sun never shines
Just to hold you for a little while
Drives the pain from my heart
And the tears from my eyes