"Glad to Be Unhappy" — Rodgers and Hart's perverse consolation.
Writer(s): rodgers/hart
Look at yourself, if you had a sense of humor
You would laugh to beat the band
Look at yourself, do you still believe the rumor
That romance is simply grand?
Since you took it right on the chin
You have lost that bright toothpaste grin
My mental state is all a-jumble
I sit around and sadly mumble
Fools rush in, so here I am
Very glad to be unhappy
I cant win, but here I am
More than glad to be unhappy
Unrequited loves a bore
And Ive got it pretty bad
But for someone you adore
Its a pleasure to be sad
Like a straying baby lamb
With no mammy and no pappy
Im so unhappy
But oh, so glad!
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- From On Your Toes (1936). The willingness to be unhappy for love — the perverse comfort of romantic suffering. Hart's lyric is the Songbook's most precise description of how people choose pain when it comes attached to love.