Be happy, be happy

Be happy, be happy

Stop with the misery

It hurts.

To be selective

Is a state of mind

Turn a negative

Into a positive

It is the only way

To coexist

With the madness

Of gunboats stopping

Peace ships

Random killings

At a food bank

A hospital

A junior school.

Death camps

Kangaroo courts

Troops on city streets

Meting out justice

Drones attacking children

Thirteen-hour working days

In Greece

No work in the Rust Belt

Praise the Lord

Die of hunger

Or diabetes

Choose your poison

Food or medication,

Unaffordable

Health care

Is bad for you.

When doublespeak

Is in everyday use

Division and hatred

Applauded as good news

Bring to me a rapture,

Another fake fact.

Turn the soldiers

On my friends

Burn down a Cathedral

A Mosque

A Synagogue

Keep smiling

Keep the peace

Believe in the dream

I had one

It was a nightmare

Just like reality

Without the rhetoric.

Be happy

Be happy

Oh, misery, misery

Mithering misery

Why don’t you just

Be happy

It’s a gift.