Happy To Be Sad chords by Ben Platt

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

🎸 Verse 1:
A augmentedA          G+G
Waking up beside you brings a kind of refuge
     D MajorD               A augmentedA
It's the armor that I need to face the day
A augmentedA         G+G             D MajorD
For a second I forgot that you were leaving soon
A augmentedA
Then the armor falls away


🎸 Pre-Chorus 1:
A augmentedA
This time there's no broken hearts
  E minor 7Em7
And no one ran 'cause it got hard
   Bm7Bm7           A augmentedA
This missing you is temporary pain

🎸 Chorus:
        A augmentedA
I'm happy to be sad
           E minor 7Em7
I'm sad that you are gone
         Bm7Bm7                  A augmentedA
If I was feeling nothing I would feel like something's wrong
          A augmentedA
I'm grateful to be crying
        E minor 7Em7
I'm crying over you
         Bm7Bm7               D MajorD
I'm lucky that we love so good it has to hurt this bad
        A augmentedA
I'm happy to be sad

Post-🎸 Chorus:
      G+G
Do-do-do-do-do-do
      Bm7Bm7
Do-do-do-do-do-do
   A augmentedA
Do-do-do, do-do-do

🎸 Verse 2:
   A augmentedA        E minor 7Em7
Only me, myself, and all my thoughts
           Bm7Bm7           A augmentedA
I thought that I would start to crumble in the lonely
               A augmentedA
(Start to crumble in the lo-)
             E minor 7Em7
But I'll get to know the momentary misery
Bm7Bm7          A augmentedA
Just to know somebody knows me

🎸 Pre-Chorus 2:
A augmentedA
This time there's no hopeless nights
  E minor 7Em7
No losing sleep, no pointless fights
   Bm7Bm7                 A augmentedA
Just missing you, 'til you come back and hold me

🎸 Chorus:
        A augmentedA
I'm happy to be sad (Sad)
           E minor 7Em7
I'm sad that you are gone (Gone)
         Bm7Bm7                  A augmentedA
If I was feeling nothing I would feel like something's wrong
          A augmentedA
I'm grateful to be crying (Cry)
        E minor 7Em7
I'm crying over you (You)
         Bm7Bm7               D MajorD
I'm lucky that we love so good it has to hurt this bad
        A augmentedA
I'm happy to be sad

Post-🎸 Chorus:
         G+G
(Sad) Do-do-do-do-do-do
          D MajorD
(Gone) Do-do-do-do-do-do
       A augmentedA
(I) Do-do-do, do-do-do
        A augmentedA
I'm happy to be sad
         G+G
(Sad) Do-do-do-do-do-do
          D MajorD
(Gone) Do-do-do-do-do-do
      A augmentedA
(I) Do-do-do, do-do-do

🎸 Chorus:
        A augmentedA
I'm happy to be sad
           E minor 7Em7
I'm sad that you are gone
         Bm7Bm7                  A augmentedA
If I was feeling nothing I would feel like something's wrong
          N.C.  A augmentedA
I'm grateful to be crying (I)
        E minor 7Em7
I'm crying over you (You)
         Bm7Bm7               D MajorD
I'm lucky that we love so good it has to hurt this bad
        N.C.    A augmentedA
I'm happy to be sad (Sad)

🎸 Outro:
      G+G
Do-do-do-do-do-do
      D MajorD
Do-do-do-do-do-do
     A augmentedA
Do-do-do, do-do-do
      G+G
Do-do-do-do-do-do
      D MajorD
Do-do-do-do-do-do
     A augmentedA
Do-do-do, do-do-do
         G+G
(Sad) Do-do-do-do-do-do
          D MajorD
(Gone) Do-do-do-do-do-do
      A augmentedA
(I) Do-do-do, do-do-do
         G+G
(Sad) Do-do-do-do-do-do
          D MajorD
(Gone) Do-do-do-do-do-do
      A augmentedA
(I) Do-do-do, do-do-do
         G+G
(Sad) Do-do-do-do-do-do
          D MajorD
(Gone) Do-do-do-do-do-do
      A augmentedA
(I) Do-do-do, do-do-do
         G+G
(Sad) Do-do-do-do-do-do
          D MajorD
(Gone) Do-do-do-do-do-do
      A augmentedA
(I) Do-do-do, do-do-do
         G+G
(Sad) Do-do-do-do-do-do
          D MajorD
(Gone) Do-do-do-do-do-do
      A augmentedA
(I) Do-do-do, do-do-do

(Fade out)