My Happy Ending

"My Happy Ending" is a song written and produced by Avril Lavigne and Butch Walker for Lavigne's second album, Under My Skin (2004). It was released as the album's second internationally released single in 2004 (see 2004 in music) and became Lavigne's third most successful single. It peaked higher than "Don't Tell Me", the album's first single. In the United Kingdom, it reached the top five, in the United States, it peaked at number nine, doing better in Mexico where it peaked at number 1. The RIAA certified "My Happy Ending" platinum in January 2005, making it Lavigne's second platinum single after "Complicated" (2002). The song contains the word shit, which generated a small amount of controversy. This song was once very popular on Radio Disney, and because Disney is targeted toward children, the word shit was replaced by stuff in the radio edit of the song. Structurally, the song is written in 4/4 style and has a repeated hook in both the chorus and in the intro and outro. The song's bridge is hailed as the strongest bridge in Lavigne's songs both vocally and lyrically.

[Intro] Oh-oh, oh-oh (So much for my happy ending) Oh-oh, oh-oh Oh-oh, oh-oh (So much for my happy ending) Oh-oh, oh-oh Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh [Verse 1] Let's talk this over It's not like we're dead Was it something I did? Was it something you said? Don't leave me hangin' In a city so dead Held up so high On such a breakable thread (Breakable thread) [Pre-Chorus] You were all the things I thought I knew And I thought we could be [Chorus] You were everything, everything That I wanted (That I wanted) We were meant to be, supposed to be But we lost it (We lost it) And all of our memories so close to me Just fade away All this time, you were pretending So much for my happy ending [Post-Chorus] (Oh-oh, oh-oh) So much for my happy ending (Oh-oh, oh-oh) Oh-oh, oh-oh [Verse 2] You've got your dumb friends I know what they say (I know what they say) They tell you I'm difficult But so are they (But so are they) But they don't know me Do they even know you? (Even know you) All the things you hide from me All the shit that you do (All the shit that you do) [Pre-Chorus] You were all the things I thought I knew And I thought we could be [Chorus] You were everything, everything That I wanted (That I wanted) We were meant to be, supposed to be But we lost it (We lost it) And all of our memories so close to me Just fade away All this time, you were pretending So much for my happy ending [Bridge] It's nice to know that you were there Thanks for acting like you care And making me feel like I was the only one It's nice to know we had it all Thanks for watching as I fall And letting me know we were done [Chorus] He was everything, everything That I wanted We were meant to be, supposed to be But we lost it And all of our memories so close to me Just fade away All this time, you were pretending So much for my happy ending [Chorus] You were everything, everything That I wanted (That I wanted) We were meant to be, supposed to be But we lost it (We lost it) And all of our memories so close to me Just fade away All this time, you were pretending So much for my happy ending [Post-Chorus] (Oh-oh, oh-oh) So much for my happy ending (Oh-oh, oh-oh) (Oh-oh, oh-oh) So much for my happy ending (Oh-oh, oh-oh) Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh