Happy Frappy
Album Version Appears On Parachute guster.net Tablature
Live Muzak Remix Appears On The Pasty Tapes Volume 2
Lyrics
Adam Gardner
Music
Guster
Producer
Mike Denneen
Mixing
(unknown)

 Album Version Sessionography
Adam Gardner guitar, lead vocals
Ryan Miller backing vocals, guitar
Brian Rosenworcel percussion

 Album Version Guests
Andy Custer bass guitar
Jeff Murphy drums

 Live Muzak Remix Sessionography
Adam Gardner guitar, keyboard
Ryan Miller keyboard
Brian Rosenworcel percussion

Notes: Breaking with their vow never to play Happy Frappy again, Guster played a muzak version of Happy Frappy at several concerts during their Spring 2001 tour. There were no words. This version appears on The Pasty Tapes Volume 2 as a live track, recorded April 7, 2001 at the Gothic Theater in Denver.
Album Version
Not much of this makes sense to me
The river leaves run cold and dry
But it keeps me from swinging tree to tree
And sometimes I'm too scared to even try

Hashing through the possibilities
They seem as endless as the sky
You seek the truth in the quiet breeze
But the air is too thin to reply

Well I know that's where I'll never be
Cause I can see the summer's done
I try to let the river flow in and out of me
And pray I float the way I think I want
And pray I float at all

Distant notions of subtle residue
Cling to minds from our past
Tell us what is what and who made who
But time's events move us too fast

Simple sentiments whisked away by anxious steel wool
Struggling to content ourselves with what we think best
That what makes happy of which we seem never full
Is actually more than plenty for it is already possessed

Well I know that's where I'll never be
Cause I can see the summer's done
I try to let the river flow in and out of me
And pray I float the way I think I want
And pray I float at all

Not much of this makes sense to me
The river leaves run cold and dry
But it keeps me from swinging tree to tree
And sometimes I'm too scared to even try

Ultra confusion feigns clarity
Scattered delusions excuses destiny
It's never exactly how it appears to be
Too much for any of us who even try to see

Well I know that's where I'll never be
Cause I can see the summer's done
I try to let the river flow in and out of me
And pray I float the way I think I want
And pray I float at all

Thanks to the sneaky reconnaissance of Exhaust Pipe for early information on the muzak remix and to the always trusty
legendary conguero Brian Rosenworcel for clarifying the songwriting credits.