"Happy Girl" is a song in which the female narrator asserts her happiness with life.
The female narrator describes her life and always passing the good moments by.
The female narrator argues how her lover believes that she is always making a big deal out of nothing important.
"I have this friend who went to teach in the suburbs," the female narrator says.
The female narrator questions a lover and asks if he would rather be with someone else, or with no one.
It's about a female narrator and her relationship to her grandfather, who's a doctor.
A female narrator says that she is "tight with her friends", who "always look out for me".
The song features a vocal battle between two female narrators who are in love with the same man.
The female narrator tells her lover that he has "five minutes" to repair the relationship.
Cohen's heterosexual female narrator was married to a homosexual man.