Name: One Shot of Happiness
Duration: P00H04M26S
Description: John Butler: Ah, look...as long as you are happy in your own head no matter how much it may screw others up - that’s ok then, right? it's become the norm. So I thought to write a satirical take on it set to a Stax beat! It's light in some ways but gets dark too. Everything from Billy Bragg to runaway fathers!

One Shot of Happiness

from Not Quite the American Dream by Diesel Park West

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Leicester England's Diesel Park West has been cranking out stellar, topical rock'n'roll since their debut, Shakespeare Alabama, from 1989. The band's latest effort, Not Quite the American Dream, was made during the lockdown of 2020 and explores more thought provoking avenues all put to sturdy rhythms and hung on superb melodies. "Secondary Modern Man" is the best song Kinks song Ray Davies never wrote and "Best of You" could quite possibly make Paul Weller bristle with jealousy. If you are at all interested in classic British rock'n'roll with a little bit of social commentary thrown in the mix, this is the record for YOU.

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John Butler: Ah, look...as long as you are happy in your own head no matter how much it may screw others up - that’s ok then, right? it's become the norm. So I thought to write a satirical take on it set to a Stax beat! It's light in some ways but gets dark too. Everything from Billy Bragg to runaway fathers!

lyrics

I’m living on cliché
It's like the junk food blues
Somebody’s parking
Is spoiling my view
But as long as they’re happy well that’s ok
As long as they’re happy well that’s ok
As long as they’re happy

We get one shot of physical
One shot of spiritual
One shot of happiness
Before they come and take us away

It's all in the air
Yeah, all in contention
Billy Bragg is gonna give us direction
as long as he's happy that’s ok
As long as he's happy that’s ok
cos we get
One shot of spiritual
One shot of physical
One shot of happiness
Before they come and take us away

Are you happy?
Are you happy?
Are you happy?
Are you happy?
Oh yeah……yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah ah na na na na na
how about you?

We get one shot of spiritual
One shot of physical
One shot of happiness
Before they come and take us away

Runaway father
Had to let them go
Couldn’t believe no more in a happy home
Politician out on campaign
Doesn’t really believe a word he says
But as long as he's happy
Well, that’s ok
Well, that’s ok
As long as he's happy
cos we get
One shot of spiritual
One shot of physical
One shot of happiness
Before they come and take us away
We get
One shot
One shot
Before they come and take us away
Take us away
Take us away
One shot of happiness
One shot of happiness
One shot of happiness
Just a one shot of happiness
One shot of happiness

Before they come and take us away
One shot of happiness
Before they come and take us away
One shot of happiness
One shot of happiness
One shot of happiness
One shot of happiness
One shot of happiness
One shot of
Happiness

credits

from Not Quite the American Dream, released May 6, 2022

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PSR Music Group Dallas, Texas

We used to be Palo Santo but now we're Happiness under the PSR music Group. Salim Nourallah and Alex Dezen run this thing so you can have an option for music that doesn't involve the Sony Music Group.