Be Happy

Be happy, be happy Close your eyes and just be happy Feel it rising every morning like the sun Feel the lightness, feel the laughter The rest will follow after It's easy to be happy when you know ...how it's done I didn't mean anything by it No one means anything by it. It doesn't mean anything It's a heartbeat deep inside you It's a friend that walks beside you Or it shines above to guide you like a star ...right? It's the prize to keep your eyes on And it's just on the horizon But you'll get there, you can get there If you know who you are So you move to the city that the songs are about Get a job selling coffee while you figure it out And you wake every morning thinking what am I going to be? Be happy, that's the answer Be the centre of attention Be the person people mention to their friends Be a winner, be a dancer Be the life of every party Then go home and don't be lonely when it ends "If you're happy, I'm happy" That's what Grandma used to tell me So I'd tell her I was happy And she'd smile And since I can remember I've been happy, happy, happy And I even think I meant it For a while What's wrong with wanting to be happy? You're the expert. You tell me Can you go there on vacation Like a secret destination? Do you feel the change when happiness is near? Is it round you or behind you? Do you find it? Does it find you? Is it somewhere you can get to in a day Or in a year? So you turn nineteen, and you turn twenty-one And you fall for somebody that you shouldn't have done And the thing you were running towards starts to run away Be happy, you can make it Reach your fingers out and take A perfect photograph of everything you do Move towards it, turn to face it Spread your wings and just embrace it The only thing that's stopping you is you And the world keeps spinning but you stay where you are And you turn twenty-three all on your own in a bar And your smile starts fading and you turn twenty-five And you start doing everything to keep it alive Give up smoking, take up yoga, learn a language, get a boyfriend Go to Europe, drop a dress-size, look insane in a bikini Cut out dairy, buy a blender, stay connected, change the future Be yourself but be a version of yourself who knows the secret to Just do it, you're worth it Impossible is nothing Open happiness and taste it, let it in Be happy, change the ending Just don't waste your life pretending To be happy When it's easy And it's all that grandma wanted Just be happy And eventually Your life will just... begin