The Happy Song

from Ersatzreal by Cloudland Blue Quartet

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A HAPPY SONG
For the first time ever in my long, long life
I’m happy with who I am
I can drink in the bar, look in the mirror,
Without thinking of the ice cream van
And I love how I look in my brand new clothes
And I’ll take some of them and a couple of those
And now when I look down, down at the ground,
I’m so surprised I can see my toes
And boy is it great at the garden gate,
When you kiss me on the end of my nose
And I love how I look in my brand new clothes
And I’ll take some of them and a couple of those
At last I can be free, and really be just me,
And nothing can go wrong
And self esteem is a wonderful thing
When you feel like you’re the king
Of every damn thing
When you’ve been down and out
In a sea of doubt
Crying in your bedroom, never letting it out
Now my picture’s on your wall
And I’m having a ball
And when I pinch myself to wake up
That don’t work at all
I keep telling myself that this is really real
I never thought that I would ever have
A reason to feel
And I don’t have to hide now you’re by my side, And you love me for who I am
And I can go and I can buy anything I want, From the man in the ice cream van
And I love how I look in my brand new clothes
And I’ll take some of them and a couple of those

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from Ersatzreal, released October 8, 2007

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Cloudland Blue Quartet Edinburgh, UK

A quartet in name only, initially influenced by Fripp & Eno's "No Pussyfooting" and The Velvet Underground's debut, songwriter & soundscaper David Reilly started musicking in 1977 by creating drones using sellotape on the keys of his dad's Bontempi Organ. The subsequent junk shop purchases of an electric guitar & fuzzbox and the acquisition of an old Beatles songbook, led him into songwriting... ... more

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