Looking for the Happy Songtext
von Peter Gabriel

Oh, you can imagine
How much the world is changing all around us now
This fierce intelligence
That challenges the very thing that makes us, us

All the proselytizing
Evangelizing words, so well designed
While the Jekyll and the Joker
Musing in the shadows, steal the future from the blind

Cut away the camera to the baby in the creche
Cut away the circus, you cut away the flesh
Algorithms dancing, but we still fall on our knees
I leave the blues behind me ′cause here's that reprise
Here comes that reprise

Looking for the happy
Looking for the happy
Find the happy in me


I have more than enough
When my life is getting tough
When I got happy, hey-hey
And I can see it in your face
It′s so clear, you've found your place
You got the happy, hey-hey

Look at this
I started listening, listening to the animals
I'm trying to understand
Trying to build a sense of trust
With compassion and respect
And nothing underhand

In the rhythm and the verse
For better and for worse
I can feel it now
All the weird and the wild
The ageless and the tired
They can feel it now

Cut away the camera to the baby in the creche
Cut away the circus, you cut away the flesh
Algorithms dancing, we still fall on our knees
I leave the blues behind me ′cause here′s that reprise
Here comes that reprise


Looking for the happy
Looking for the happy
Find the happy in me
Hey

Ah, we grow up together now
Put away those phones
Gonna revel those bones (revel those bones)

I have more than enough
When my life is getting tough
When I got happy, hey-hey
And I can see it in your face
It's so clear you′ve found your place
You got the happy, hey-hey

Happy to live, happy to love
Happy to give, giving out love
Happy to live, happy to love
Happy to give, giving out this love

But there's no one here that chases love
It doesn′t matter what the pace is, we got happy
And you're burning through the deepest blues
Now you′re putting on your dancing shoes, we got happy
'Cause I got happy

And I'm sitting by the old oak tree
With the comfort of a cup of tea
And it′s creeping through my body
There′s the tapping of my toes
My senses waking up now
In my ears, my eyes and nose

And we're dancing on the riverbank
And we′re jumping in the sea
Love is spinning 'round me
Happy, found some happy in me
Love is spinning ′round me
Found some happy
(Love is spinning 'round me) we got the happy

We got the happy
(Love is spinning ′round me) happy
We got the happy
Happy