(The) Happiness (You Deserve)

Song Length 4:01 Genre Rock - Indie/Low-Fi, Rock - Alternative
Lead Vocal Male Vocal Mood Delighted, Pleased
Subject Relationship, Happiness Language English
Era 2000 and later

Lyrics

(The) Happiness (You Deserve)

The best of luck
Making a new start
Stateside, with your sweetheart
It's good to see you smiling
It's good to see you laughing at last
It's good to see you walking on air

I said, I hope it's just like the books you've read
I said, I hope it's just like the songs that you've heard
And you find the happiness
You find the happiness you deserve

A mean miser of a man
A mean miser of one-time sweet shop owner
His dad left when he was young
Left him there with his mum in a small damp flat near Croydon

I said, I hope it's just like the books he's read
I said, I hope it's just like the songs that he's heard
And he finds the happiness
He finds the happiness he deserves

A little on the simple side
A mother it could be said would have saved young Oedipus a complex
So he holed up in his room to avoid her
He said everything about her annoyed him
And vice-versa

I said, I hope it's just like the books he's read
I said, I hope it's just like the songs that he's heard
And he finds the happiness
He finds the happiness he deserves

Low on confidence
And social skills
High on injustice and the world's ills
Down on his job and down at home
Down on his luck
Down on his chances
but he never, he never gave up

With good old fashioned pen and paper
And with a PC and a modem later
He spun a network of penpals
And among his many correspondents
He came across his future wife
A student and a Kristen Hirsh fan

I said, I hope it's just like the books they've read
I said, I hope it's just like the songs that they've heard
And they find the happiness
They find the happiness they deserve



















Lyrics Thomas Toby Burton Music Thomas Toby Burton

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