Happy Fools (feat. Coi Leray)
Updated: 2 days ago
⋆ Genre: Pop Rap
⋆ Producing Credits: Slow Rabbit
⋆ Writing/Composing Credits: Slow Rabbit, Yeonjun, Coi Leray, Akil, "worldwidefresh" King, Beomgyu, Taehyun, Revin, Soobin, Hueningkai, POP
ABOUT/MEANING: “Happy Fools” celebrates the carefree pleasure of ignoring tomorrow and enjoying whatever makes you happy today. Rather than worrying about expectations, responsibilities or preparing for the future, the boys choose immediate enjoyment - accepting that this may make them “fools,” but deciding that they would rather be happy fools than spend the present consumed by anxiety about what comes next.
That attitude reflects the appeal of Neverland throughout TEMPTATION. Growing up requires planning, responsibility and confronting an uncertain future; remaining within the present allows those pressures to temporarily disappear. Yet the song does not present enjoying the present as inherently wrong - there is genuine value in noticing the life happening around you rather than sacrificing it entirely to anxiety about tomorrow. The temptation lies in allowing that freedom to become avoidance. Calling themselves “fools” acknowledges the irresponsibility of continually postponing the future, yet that awareness does not stop the choice from feeling liberating.
Within the album, “Happy Fools” therefore explores a quieter form of temptation than the intoxicating rush of “Sugar Rush Ride.” There is no need for the fantasy to deceive them: sometimes the simple pleasure of not thinking about the future is tempting enough. For now, they knowingly choose the carefree present, allowing themselves to enjoy the temporary freedom of not having to decide what comes next.
"The lyrics are about how I want to leave my current worries for the me of tomorrow and just enjoy the moment right now that won’t come back. Me and the members thought about our own experiences and wrote the lyrics to the song. Everyone has a time like that in their life, right? People telling you that the future is important even though you’re working really hard right now. Times when people tell you that you can’t delay things anymore, so you just have to walk the skewed path. It’s a song that we wrote honestly by thinking back to our thoughts in times like this.” - Beomgyu
NOTE: There is also a TXT version of this song, which features a new rap verse written by Yeonjun, replacing Coi Leray's original verse. This version is not available on music streaming services but can be found on TXT's official channel, along with a special performance clip. While the clip includes lyrics in the captions, feel free to visit the 'lyric' page on our site for an in-depth explanation of the nuances in Yeonjun's verse.
LYRICS - ENGLISH TRANSLATION (translations by @translatingTXT)
Happy happy happy fools
Happy happy happy fools
Happy happy happy fools
Happy happy happy happy
I have so much to do
But no plans on doing it
They always say the future's more important than the present
No matter what they say
I don’t care, I give up
I've already hopped on this skewed path,
Just enjoying it
They say I’m a fool
But even if things get delayed, I’m not afraid
Every day is happy
I’m locked in a sweet moment
Leave those worries for the me of tomorrow
This moment right now will never come again, yeah
I don’t want to leave
CONNECTION: In “Devil by the Window,” the tempter encourages the boy to “stay” when he considers leaving the fantasy. By “Happy Fools,” that desire has become his own: “I don't want to leave.” Temptation no longer needs to persuade him to remain - he has begun actively choosing the pleasurable present over returning to the uncertain future waiting outside it.
Here on this path of pleasure, I’m like a butterfly
The honey bee that only works
Has no idea how pretty the sunset sky is
BEOMGYU: "A honeybee or a worker ant doesn’t have a chance to see how pretty the sky is because it only ever works, and they do the same work every day; I felt like that was me when I used to be nervous and impatient at the thought that I must do better. During my trainee days, I used to look at the sky first thing when I got off work - that’s when I used to feel like my day was put together. But one day I was thinking and suddenly realized that I had never seen the daylight sky with the sun out or the sunset. I felt a bit unfair when I realized this, so I thought of that while writing these lyrics."
Don’t wanna do my thing
I have no regrets
I’ll be the laziest Superman
So follow me
This lush taste of laziness
It's so sweet
CONNECTION: The phrase “It's so sweet” also appears in The Name Chapter: TEMPTATION's logo teaser, where Yeonjun can be heard saying, “It's so sweet, but I should find my name.” Together, the two ideas capture the album's central conflict: the fantasy is genuinely pleasurable, but remaining within its sweetness means postponing the search for his own identity. In “Happy Fools,” he is still embracing the first half of that dilemma - enjoying how “sweet” it feels not to move forward.
The dreamlike guilty pleasure right before my eyes
Happy happy happy fools
Happy happy happy fools
Happy happy happy fools
Happy happy happy happy
Gucci coats & kisses
You should know that I’m expensive
Take a trip from Cali
Now my Rollie on Korean time
Foreign came in lemon lime
I just wanna live my life
Yea I like red roses
But I rather you come spend some time
H-A-P-P-Y
We go up like the moon
TXT and Coi Leray
Get it poppin’ like balloons
We gon’ party every day
Living like some happy fools
Doing what we wanna do
Yea yea yea
I want to savor this moment,
I’m the center of the world,
I’m like a butterfly
The honey bee that only works can't even feel the pleasant breeze
Don’t wanna do my thing
I have no regrets
I’ll be the laziest Superman
So follow me
The lush taste of laziness
It's so sweet
The dreamlike guilty pleasure right before my eyes
Happy happy happy fools
Happy happy happy fools
Happy happy happy fools
Happy happy happy happy
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