We Happy Few
[Hook]
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
[Verse 1]
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, nah
[Hook]
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
[Verse 2]
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
[Hook]
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
[Verse 3]
An attack of anxiety
As I hang by a T-H-R-E-A-D 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
[Verse 4]
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
Give 'em 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 and you're doubtful of therapy?
There's very little help for you now
So the remedy for downers inherently renowned to be menaces
Is a swift kick in the head, oh yes, it is!
[Hook]
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
[Outro]
Cheers, mate!