Happiness Is A Chemical - Darren Hanlon

On the glass that wraps the telephone box

An impatient bystander knocks

The receiver, put it back back down in it’s place

In the some things should be said to the face

I’m a believer

You’re stripped of all your worldly powers

And staring at the opposite apartment block for hours

You say that each window is just a TV channel

And you’d surrender all your so-called friends for flowers

And you’d rather be sleeping in the paddocks with the horses

While the stars cross the sky’s on their prescribed courses

Can you take me with you when you go?

Because love is just a lazy generalisation that we use for 100 different

feelings and as many situations

Going through each others pockets is not like us and flattery should get you

somewhere and your happiness is just a chemical

A constant feeling you’re being watched

All your good intentions so clumsily botched

A kiss sent down the telephone line can come out sounding like a bug getting

squashed

And grasshoppers fling erratic parabolas

While you’re drowning ants with your can of cola

Can you take me with you when you go?

Because love is just a lazy generalisation that we use for 100 different

feelings and as many situations

Going through each others pockets is not like us and flattery should get you

somewhere and your happiness is just a chemical

It’s just a chemical

Separate the parts and give them titles

Lungs are for songs and eyes are for feasting

And butter’s for a bee sting

Can somebody please check my vitals?

Because love is just a lazy generalisation that we use for 100 different

feelings and as many situations

Finding things others pockets isn’t always a plus and that sensation that you

felt up the back of the bus is just a chemical

Yeah happiness is just a chemical

Yeah it is