We Happy Few - Dan Bull

We only want you to be happy

We only want you to be happy

And if you refuse

We won’t be held accountable

For what

We do to you

Take your joy

Well well welcome to Wellington Wells

A tranquil town

Nestled gently in the fens and the fells

Folk flocked from afar

They were fairly compelled

By a desire to repel

Negative memories' spells

But nothing ever even happened

Did it?

So let me dispel

The tittle tattle

It’ll baffle

Leave you empty a shell

Clearly unwell

But we’ve the medicine

To better your health

There’s nothing quite like a rest

To replenish the cells

In the home of debonair gentlemen

And delicate belles

Women are feminine, svelte

Donning an elegant blouse

While the men are in trousers

Of sumerian felt

Under double breasted blazers

With the trendy lapels

But if you break the legislation

You’ll be readily dealt

There’s nothing quite like arrest

To replenish the cells

So don’t expect to be held

In a respectable house

Without respecting the house rules

In which we excel

So any petulant whelk

I detect collecting intel

Upon this excellent realm

Will get his rectum impaled

As a correction, expelled

And in the distance the yells

Will be dismissed as a mouse

Squeaking by everyone else

We only want you to be happy

We only want you to be happy

And if you refuse

We won’t be held accountable

For what

We do to you

Take your joy

Oi

Take your place

With the wellies

And the wastrels

Lace your crepes

With a bellyful

Of brain fuel

Brain fooled

Hey

You could barely call it tasteful

Buddy

But he bloody better be grateful

And take another plateful

Straight from the table

Today we’re serving up betrayal

By the ladle

What do you need to pray for?

You’re already faithful

All your mistakes

Have been already paid for

Any deviation from the state

Will be painful

That’s just not cricket

Baseball

Make sure

If you see a welly acting at all strange

Call us so we can lay laws

Never mind

If I barely can sing

Blame that on the very bad

Thing

Moving swiftly forward

Awesome

To the portion

Talking to law enforcement

This is Jimmy

British bobby

Hitting civvies

Is his hobby

But you’ve got nothing to fear

If you adhere to the rules

That are utterly clear

Dress to impress

Be nice and polite

Take your joy

Stay inside in the night

And the bobby on the beat

Won’t have to beat you

Save that for the happy few

We only want you to be happy

We only want you to be happy

And if you refuse

We won’t be held accountable

For what

We do to you

Take your joy

Take your joy

Enjoy your joy

Take your joy

It’s the safest choice

An attack of anxiety

As I hang by a

To sobriety

Why oh why

Are we pushed to the margin

By high society

Shoved in the garden

Shuffling past

Muttering crap

As we fight to survive

On nothing but scraps

Look and understand

I’m an upstanding chap

Nothing underhand

I just want something back

From the upper class

That have got the upper hand

On the downers

It’s upside down

Front to back

But on the upside

Downers are up

To get down

And they’re down

To get up

Take a ticket to town

Dig it?

Digging around

To get in and out

Quicker than I will have

When I’ve figured it out

Wow

Eureka

We reek of

Fap

Pee

Poo

Phew

But at least we’re the happy few

There’s no better place to live in

No better living

Than the land

Where happiness is a given

Why trouble your mind

With decisions

Free will is the benignest of prisons

Take joy

See the light through the prism

Close your eyes

And vibe to the rhythm

Listen

That is the sound of serenity

Arisen

Sapping downers of energy

Given them

A smack around for their benefit

A bit of rough and tumble

Is the healthiest sedative

Well at least it it now

'Cause I said it is

And any doubt

Is a mouthful of heresies

Don’t like drugs

Any you’re doubtful of therapy?

There’s very little help

For you now

So the remedy

For downers

Inherenty

Renowned to be menaces

Is a swift kick in the head

Oh, yes it is

We only want you to be happy

We only want you to be happy

And if you refuse

We won’t be held accountable

For what

We do to you

Take your joy

Take your joy

Enjoy your joy

Take your joy

It’s the safest choice