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A Rough Guide To Being Happy

from Measure For Measure by Owen Franklin

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lyrics

My songs are laced with irony

They make me sound more serious than I really mean to be

And though it's good to let your feelings out

If truth be told I haven't got much to complain about

The finest friends that I could wish for

They've taught me how to live my life

And now I'll share a little something in return

So friends please follow my advice

You gotta live laugh love and be happy, live laugh love and be happy

And I know it sounds simplistic and I know it sounds twee

But if you're optimistic then I'm sure you'll agree
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hat if you live laugh love and be happy, live laugh love and be happy

If we live for each other, if we live for our friends

Then everything will work out in the end

Another day has come and gone

So let's all drink too much and then we'll have a singalong

There's no place I'd rather be

And there's no way that I can say how much y'all mean to me

It's all about forgotten evenings, the ones that pass without a care

It's all about the little moments that we spend and when they blend

Into memories we share then I'll be proud to say that "I was there"

'Cause if you love laugh love and be happy, if you live laugh love and be happy

And I know it sounds simplistic and I know it sounds twee

But if you're optimistic then I'm sure you'll agree

That we live laugh love and be happy, if we live laugh love and be happy

If we live for each other, if we live for our friends

Then everything will work out

In the end the good time's got to end, the best things never last

But when your days are dismal then remember good times past

The times we danced, the times we laughed the times that went too fast
And when I start to sing my song
I want the whole damn room to sing along

And not because they know me and they feel it is polite

But 'cause the lyrics mean so much to them they need to get them right

'cause everybody shares one base connection

We're all heading in one ultimate direction

That inevitable darkness which we never shall escape

So sing with me before it's too late

That's why you gotta live laugh love and be happy, live laugh love and be happy

And I know it sounds simplistic and I know it sounds twee

But if you're optimistic then I'm sure you'll agree

That if you live laugh love and be happy, live laugh love and be happy

If we live for each other, if we live for our friends then everything will work out

Well I know I'm no New Jersey boy, but boy I'm having fun

Pretending I'm Bruce Springsteen or Frank Turner's bastard son

So if you're still alive out there if I'm not the only one then sing
Whoa-oh-oh (Whoa-oh-oh) x 3

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from Measure For Measure, released January 25, 2013

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