Happy Song – LoveMyESL

by Connie Talbot (with Jordan Jansen)

Connie is a 13-year-old English singer and songwriter who became famous in 2007 when she came in second in the TV competition Britain’s Got Talent. Jordan is a 15-year-old Australian singer and songwriter who has half a million followers on Twitter.

You spend all day lying on the couch
Walk in your boxers round the house
Look at your pale ugly face
Enough to make a mirror break

More half-asleep than half-awake
Complaining that your body aches
Feeling sorry for yourself
Won’t get you anywhere

So I’m singing you a happy song
Just to cheer you up
When you got it rough
So I’m singing you a happy song
Just to cheer you up
I know how it sucks
Yeah, I’m singing you a happy song
But it can’t be that bad
Why you look so sad?
‘Cause better times ahead, oooh

The room smells like bad Mexican
Pull up those blinds let air come in
Your promises and blah-blah-blah
Won’t fix the strings on my guitar

We’ve been friends for much too long
For me to watch you carry on
Like this I miss the you I knew
You’d do the same for me

So I’m singing you a happy song
Just to cheer you up
I know how it sucks
Yeah I’m singing you a happy song
But it can’t be that bad
There’s better times ahead
So I’m singing you a happy song
But it can’t be that bad
Why you look so sad?

Watching shapes in the clouds all day
It’s okay sometimes we make mistakes
Let it go oh, oh
If it’s out of your control
Shrug it off like it’s a silly joke

So I’m singing you a happy song
Just to cheer you up
I know how it sucks
Yeah I’m singing you a happy song
But it can’t be that bad
There’s better times ahead
Yeah I’m singing you a happy song
But it can’t be that bad
Why you look so sad?
There’s better times ahead, oh
Better times ahead, oh
Better times ahead, oooh
Better times ahead

Vocabulary:

couch: sofa
boxers: underwear
pale: colorless, white
aches: hurts
feeling sorry for yourself: feeling like something bad was done to you but not doing anything about it
won’t get you anywhere: solve your problems
cheer you up: make you feel happier
you got it rough: life is hard for you
it sucks: your situation is bad
ahead: in the future
Mexican: Mexican food
blinds: window coverings
blah-blah-blah: all of that stuff
carry on: do things you shouldn’t
let it go: don’t keep it inside of you
control: power to fix
shrug it off: don’t give it any importance
silly: not serious
joke: a quick story that makes you laugh