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lyrics

Happiness
Lyrics and Music by Dave Wright
©2016

The screen door slams, Mary’s voice shakes,
Like a dime store Juliet, waking up too late.
But now the damage has been done as the tears begin to run,
It’s all turned to dust and now the words don’t hurt as much,
And I’m running real hard to that dark edge of town.

Drowning my sorrows in a bar by the side of the hwy,
Listening to the tyres rushing by real fast in the rain,
They’re all driving to escape like the tramps in that old Springsteen song,
Ah but if you believe in The Boss like I do,
You’d know we weren’t born to run.

If the happiness stops, what have we got?
Just trying to hold on to something already lost.

And there’s a girl at the bar, she’s giving me the eye,
I should be shutting her down but there’s whisky in my glass and I don’t bother to try.
And we’re dancing real slow to the Flying Burritos,
There’s a dark end of the street and a dark hole in my soul,
But I don’t think this is the right way to go.

If the happiness stops, what have we got?
Just trying to hold on to something already lost.
It’s like we’ve lost the nerve to
Start this car, take it out of park, put the pedal to the floor and
Let the lights blaze in the dark,
Turn the radio up, and let it blast.

It’s too early to tell if this can be saved,
But I’ll tell you this: all those mistakes we made,
They didn’t happen at once, they snuck up on us,
Crept up real fast like a great sucker punch,
And I’m not going to fold, or go on alone.

But if the happiness stops, what have we got?
Just trying to hold on to something already lost.
It’s like we’ve lost the nerve to
Start this car; take it out of park, put the pedal to the floor,
You can’t start a fire without a spark,
Turn the radio up, and let it blast.
Turn the radio up, and let it blast.
Turn the radio up, and let it blast.

Turn the radio up.

credits

from HWY, released April 20, 2017
Dave Wright- Vocals, Gibson J45, Martin D35, Rickenbacker Jetglo 620.
Robert Barber- Fender Telecaster, Gibson Les Paul, Backing Vocals.
Tim Cavanagh- Bass, Backing Vocals.
Neil Salmon- Yamaha Studio Pro Drumset, Percussion.
Daryl Johnson- Piano, Hammond Organ. Synths. John Bryant- The Trombone. Anthony Foon- The Trumpet. Vanessa Hart- Backing Vocals.
Althea Del Vecchio- Backing Vocals

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Dave Wright & The Midnight Electric Melbourne, Australia

Singer/songwriter/bandleader Dave Wright is after one thing: A perfect 4-minute pop song.
When he puts pen to paper and pick to guitar strings, however, the Melburnian-by-way-of-Colac knocks out epics and ravers and boozers about girls, cars, Australia, mariticide, Diggers, truckers, sadness, sickness, drunks, heartbroken mothers, angry fathers, desperate sons … and death. Lots of death. ... more

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