It is what it is

When I hear certain songs I think, “If they made a soundtrack for my life this song would have to be on it.” One of the songs on my soundtrack would have to be Sugarland’s “It Happens” from the album Love on the inside.

I bought the CD last fall and as with all new music in my house it was played over and over and over again. One song I particularly like is “It Happens”. When my best friend Jodi was killed in a car accident in September the upbeat lyrics stopped many breakdowns in progress. Whenever something is getting me down , I play the song or sing it to myself and start to move on. The song isn’t too flippant, merely a reminder that we aren’t in control of everything that happens to us and sometimes all we can do is “Let go, laughing.”

It Happens - Sugarland

Missed my alarm clock ringing
Woke up telephone screaming
Boss man singing his same old song
Rolled in late about an hour
No cup of coffee, no shower
Walk of shame with two different shoes on

Now it’s poor me, why me, oh me, boring
The same old worn out, blah-blah story
There’s no good explanation for it at all

Chorus:
Ain’t no rhyme or reason
No complicated meaning
Ain’t no need to over- think it
Let go, laughing
Life don’t go quite like you planned it
We try so hard to understand it
The irrefutable, indisputable fact is
It happens

My trusty-rusty had a flat
I borrowed my neighbors Cadillac
“I’ll be right back,” going down to Wally World
That yellow light turned red to quickly
Knew that truck the moment it hit me
Out stepped my ex with his new girl
(“Sorry ‘bout your neck baby”)

But it’s poor me, why me, oh me, boring
The same old worn out, blah-blah story
There’s no good explanation for it at all

Chorus:
Ain’t no rhyme or reason
No complicated meaning
Ain’t no need to over- think it
Let go, laughing
Life don’t go quite like you planned it
We try so hard to understand it
The irrefutable, indisputable fact is
It happens

Yeah, the irrefutable, indisputable, absoluteable, totally beautiful fact us…pshhhhh, it happens