Be Happy - Sing-Along

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