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Happiness Drives A Race Car

from The Life You Hit by Callum Baird

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Hang on to your hat, babe, lest it be taken by the wind
Look out across the grasslands, see the old tornadoes spin
Failure sings in the opera house, and underneath the Kingston Bridge
And if you ain’t heard failure sing, well you ain’t lived

Cast your spells on the rain, they say, or else you’d a-better start to save
Hold on to what you got, until your holding it in your grave
Seems like I can watch the sun fly, see the moon close and open wide
We’re just sand in an hourglass holding on to the sides

Happiness drives a race-car, sorrow can only crawl
You’ve cursed my life to flash by, but I don’t feel cursed at all
It don’t matter if you’re content, only that you believe that you are
Take a look around the world, don’t focus on the graveyards

Hang on tight to the sky, babe, the clouds are moving fast
Look outside my window, see the glaciers flying past
Carnations bloom in the meadow, as leaves fall on powder snow
If there’s an ice age coming, we’ll sleep through it in our bones

Dive into Old Man River; swim through all your teenage dreams
See the girl in the arms of the old king; watch the quicksand take the queen
Fortune favours the lucky; the lucky got nothing on the young
They got six numbers but no years to count them on

Happiness drives a race car, sorrow can only crawl
You’ve cursed my life to flash by, but I don’t feel cursed at all
It don’t matter if you’re content, only that you believe that you are
Take a look around the world, don’t focus on the graveyards

We’ll work until our backs hurt, burying moments in the earth
But it’s only when they’re down there with the diamonds
You find out what they’re worth

Happiness drives a race car, sorrow can only crawl
You’ve cursed my life to flash by, but I don’t feel cursed at all
It don’t matter if you’re content, only that you believe that you are
Sorrow can only crawl, happiness drives a race car

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from The Life You Hit, released October 11, 2010

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