h a ppy to you

The Jackalope Edition

h a ppy to you

1. Enter The Jokers Lair

2. The Wave

3. Devil’s Work

4. Vase

5. God Help This Divorce

6. Bavarian #1 (say you will)

7. Pretender

8. Archipelago

9. Black Tin Box

10. Paddling Out

11. Garden

12. No Starry World

13. Paddling Out (Wolfgang Gartner Remix)

14. Devil’s Work (Alex Metric Remix)

15. Paddling Out (Music Video)

16. The Wave (Music Video)

Album written by Miike Snow (Christian Karlsson, Pontus Winnberg, Andrew Wyatt)

Published by Downtown Publishing (Andrew Wyatt)Universal Publishing (Christian Karlsson, Pontus Winnberg)

Produced, arranged and recorded by Miike Snow (Pontus Winnberg, Andrew Wyatt, Christian Karlsson)

Additional recordings by Nille Perned

Additional publishing Golden Syrup Music, Warner, Chappell Music Scandinavia AB on track 6

Mixed by Niklas Flyckt at Robotberget

Mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling

Assistant Samuel Lundin

All instruments, programming & vocals by Miike Snow (Andrew Wyatt, Christian Karlsson, Pontus Winnberg)

Except...Additional vocals by Lykke Li courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp. / Warner Music U.K. Ltd on track 9

Auto harp by Gustav Ejstes on track 2

Drums by Nils Törnqvist on tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 & 9 and Thomas Hedlund on track 10

Fields drums by David Lindberg, Jonathan Lundberg, Claes Malmberg on tracks 2 & 6

Strings by Fredrik Syberg, Natalie Migdal, Pär Lindqvist, Sabina Sandri Olsson on tracks 3, 5, 6 & 9

French horn by Johan Ahlin on tracks 3 & 5

Flugel horn and trumpet by Svante Halldin on track 3

Trumpet by Axel Sjöstedt on track 6

Trombone and Bass trombone by Staffan Findin on track 3

Additional remix and production by Wolfgang Gartner at The Wolf’s Lair on track 13Alex Metric at The Batcave on track 14 Paddling Out (Music Video) Video Director: Andreas NilssonVideo Producer: Jason Botkin

The Wave (Music Video) Video Director: Andreas NilssonVideo Producer: Jason Botkin

p&c 2012 Universal Republic Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. 1755 Broadway, New York, NY 10019 and Downtown Music, LLC. Distributed by Universal Music Distribution in the U.S. and Canada only. All rights re-served. FBI Anti-Piracy Warning: Unauthorized copying is punishable under federal law.

LYRICS:

1. Enter The Jokers Lair [03.29]

to us the world is everything- it’s dangerous to be on yourown, to dream of home. i watch it and i can’t help but playfavourites: a hand-changing card, a face, a heart. i don’tremember how i got down, i only know there’s been some kindof harm done.

2. The Wave [03.43]

the first strike of the hammermade my heart beat fasterthe rat-tat to remind methat there was something behind meyou can hear themyou can hear them banging on the tinbut my love won’t be savedwe’ll all be staring at the wavethey told me i wasn’t anythingbefore the bombs started fallingi was a fee for the masteri was a walking disasteri know you hear it comingi know you hear the soundi know you feel it comingdon’t let it get you down

3. Devil’s Work [03.56]

the blinds here are so sharp and they cut the light from aprimitive sun. you know i really wanted her. society thinks sohighly of this hotel i vomited on before i lost the sight of her.my man, he quietly closes the door, now the pharaoh haswoken my hands. i feel like i’ve been here before, she hasalready spoken. anyway, there’s no reason to get hurt, youdon’t need to sell yr shirt to do the devil’s work! you finallyfound yr place- you know it always works. i saw someone wholooked like you on the platform at bondi station, but from ayounger era. the lights in the bell house were still on. we allneed somebody to love, be we clothed or naked.

4. Vase [03.41]

there were islands where we spent the days. there werehunting hounds by the palace grounds believe me. she hadcircles like romany marie she would start the day on thenovocaine, believe me. by the end of the day there were comingshocks from the palace clocks believe me. there was nothingwe could do or say we were holding hands in the garbagecans believe me. you can wish but this order is thinner thanthe glaze on a vase. while the innkeep follows us the roadgives in to haze and the smell of water comes. you’ll neverwin the game. when you wander off keep your ballots softbelieve me.

5. God Help This Divorce [04.32]

the sun sets for so long on these streetsso many beautiful faces that don’t need mepapers and little useless thingsslide down along the pavement away from metaking my tea in silencetelling strange jokes to myselfgod help this divorceshe was a beauty queenbut i held her down, i held her.go to the bar and say semi-sexist things

6. Bavarian #1 (say you will) [04.03]

»Incorporating elements of Ten Little Indians by Harry Nilsson. Published by Golden Syrup Music/Warner/Chappell Music Scandinavia AB«

can we still find itis there a way init’s gone so long nowwith our faces at the windwould you come overforgive my hard waysand stay up all nightlike the chinatown paradessay you willi won’t climb out through the other doorif i ask you to say you willi can’t be trustedto wait on hard timesi’d rather run outand be caught behind the linesopen corridors light up the paintingsaww come on overand keep away the shakessay you willi won’t climb out through the other doorif i ask you to say you willthey gave us their machinesthey tried but they wont save usthe locked-up luxuriesyou’ll find that you don’t need them at allif you say that you will

7. Pretender [03.33]

i didn’t wanna wake upbut then i felt your touchnow i notice that i drink too muchand the turning of the universe ohspent the morning as a pretenderwill this be the age of surrenderthe falling dark it linesthe walls let ours combineand the children lie in their placesi can see the lines in their facesi didn’t wanna wake upbut then i felt your touch nowi notice that i drink too muchand the turning of the universe oh

8. Archipelago [04.05]

peace. the ward he offers me a pack of cigarettes. they aren’this, and yet i feel it coming on -a sense of welling grief. andthough they ‘re serving samovar, somehow i’d rather be up inan airplane above the archipelago. i stuttered in my armourin an airplane above the archipelago. i could see where yougrew up, and the murderer in me. please. the blanket and thesheets, the leaves the gardner rakes are articles of faith. thecompany believes i’m running derelict around these foreignstreets. the colonel knows i want to crack his head fortaking me up in an airplane above the archipelago. i stutteredin my armour in an airplane above the archipelago. now i seewhere you grew up, and the murderer in me. they said therewas an ice age forty thousand years ago. incidents of roadrage warring on the streets below.

9. Black Tin Box [05.33]

i bought you a black tin box, something to put your jewelryin. but it stuck me as the property of the childless: it was coldand roman and the edges were sharp. take me down thehillside. show me where they used to play.i mailed you a dutch post card,where i tried to be comforting.there were kids, my neighbors, on the sidewalk, playingsuperman but the edges were sharp. take me down the hillside.show me where they used to play, your sisters and yourunning through the orange light of the after-day.black sheep black sheep, in the after shocksthought he could survive in the black tin box

10. Paddling Out [03.41]

the waves are warm the sun is out the sea is full of agentsthe car the space between the grains of sand is automatingthere is someone here who laughs too hard at everything.and you say isn’t it hard paddling out?the rattle and the mating crowds are out here for theweekend. we had to take our clothes before the sun was gonecompletely. i used to lie and think in clouds deciding whichwere queens and which were doves and lines i throw myselfare thin are shower curtain-thin.there is someone here who laughs too hard at everything.and you say isn’t it hard paddling out?

11. Garden

so many worlds so many worlds for me to penetrate i wanna laugh and steal the world from all the half-awake cause you weren’t here you know that you weren’t here so many times we were the ones to start and settle wars cause when you don’t you’re signing up to take it on all fours and you aren’t here i know that you aren’t here someday we’ll be old men rotting someday we’ll be eyes in a garden so many times we were the ones to reach the heart of war cause if you don’t they string you up and pull you into fours and you aren’t here

12. No Starry World

you can’t feel it the old magic you keep selling songs for lesser kinds of addicts its so sweet and synthetic you’re at charles degaulle with dumbells in you baggage miles standish was not a hero he just talked fast when it fell below zero say anything i’d pay anything not to be racked by survival sell me no starry world but I tried no starry world you’ll never know how i tried

© 2012 Universal Music Publishing AB/Downtown Music Publishing Inc.. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Miike Snow would like to thank

All our families and friends, amy thomson and ATM, alice penrose, amanda suriani, amy wheatley, anders from mellqvists, andreas berthling, andreas nilsson, aniela, axel sjöstedt, björn yttling, brad truax, brent kredel, carli löf, claes malmberg, damon mcmahon, dan gallucci,

dana meyerson, daniel araya, david eriksson, david kitson, david möllerstedt, david lindberg, donnie ward, fredrik syberg, frans hägglund, gustav ejstes, ian montone, jesper kouthoofd,

joel eriksson, johan ahlin, johanna beckman, johannes berglund, jonas wikström, jonathan lundberg, josh deutsch, julian wright, kathryn frazier, kim buisson,

lee jenson, lykke-li, magnus lidehäll, mark ronson, mattias franzen, mattias nilsson, michael pontecorvo, mike smith, monotone, nadja rangel, natalie hapgood, natalie migdal,

niklas flyckt, niklas jonsson, nille perned, nisse törnqvist, petter winnberg, pär lindqvist, russel warby, sabina sandri olsson, sebastian ingrosso, sebastian mlynarski, soraya sobh,

staffan findin, stuart price, style of eye, svante halldin, taylor brown, thomas hedlund, tobias rylander, tom windish, tomas nordmark, vaughan merrick and everybody at INGRID.