We Happy Few

Lyrics

[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!