All My Happiness Is Gone - Purple Mountains

Friends are warmer than gold when you’re old

And keeping them is harder than you might suppose

Lately, I tend to make strangers wherever I go

Some of them were once people I was happy to know

Mounting mileage on the dash

Double darkness falling fast

I keep stressing, pressing on

Way deep down at some substratum

Feels like something really wrong has happened

And I confess I’m barely hanging on

All my happiness is gone

All my happiness is gone

It’s all gone somewhere beyond

All my happiness is gone

Ten thousand afternoons ago

All my happiness just overflowed

That was life at first and goal to go

Me and you and us and them

And all those people way back when

All our hardships were just yardsticks then, you know

You know

It’s not the purple hills

It’s not the silver lakes

It’s not the snowcloud shadowed interstates

It’s not the icy bike chain rain of Portland, Oregon

Where nothing’s wrong and no one’s asking

But the fear’s so strong it leaves you gasping

No way to last out here like this for long

'Cause everywhere I go, I know

Everywhere I go, I know

All my happiness is gone

All my happiness is gone

It’s all gone somewhere beyond

All my happiness is gone