Another Happy Day

by Sally Ann

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A birthday song with a darker side addressing suicide. Hey, you made it another year and you deserve to be celebrated. Your life is Another Happy Day.

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Verse 1:
I’ll be honest
Behind these armors
Was a girl all alone
Just skin and bones
Going slightly mad
With all that she had
To forget

I’ll be honest
Dried in thirst
I almost tried
To put an end
Those years I cried
For heaven to send
A friend


Pre-chorus 1:
I could have hurt so many more
If I’d broken nature’s law
I could have missed out on it all
Turned to dust, nothing more


Chorus 1:
But here I am
Still blood
Runnin' in my veins
On a patched wrist, uncut
I'm finally out of the dark
Happy birthday to me
I'd never thought I'd see
Another happy day
I used to say
Crazy things, insane
Drivin' drunk on fast lanes
Glad I hit the break
And I finally broke
These patterns and now
I'll blow the candles on my cake
Happy birthday to me
Happy birthday my love

Verse 2:
It’s scary to grow
Older each day
Treating age cold
Wrinkles forced into play
Nodding to years
Trying best to ignore
Our fears.
Yet if I didn’t
Breathe each second
Each minute life beckoned
Then I wouldn’t
Have had any of this
A life high on your kiss
A life basking in bliss

Pre-chorus 2:
I could have hurt so many more
If I’d broken nature’s law
I could have missed out on it all
Turned to dust, nothing more

Chorus 2:
But here I am
Still blood
Runnin' in my veins
On a patched wrist, uncut
I'm finally out of the dark
Happy birthday to me
I'd never thought I'd see
Another happy day
I used to say
Crazy things, insane
Drivin' drunk on fast lanes
Glad I hit the break
And I finally broke
These patterns and now
I'll blow the candles on my cake
Happy birthday to me
Happy birthday my love

Bridge:
This shadow
towering me
Ahead or behind
You were always mine
Cut out from the light
Even in darkest nights

Why was I scared
Should have just cared
My lonely companion
An unsung devotion
Stitched to me from birth
By the light of my worth


Chorus 3:
Yeah here I am
Still blood
Runnin' in my veins
On a patched wrist, uncut
I'm finally out of the dark
Happy birthday to me
I'd never thought I'd see
Another happy day
I used to say
Crazy things, insane
Drivin' drunk on fast lanes
Glad I hit the break
And I finally broke
These patterns and now
I'll blow the candles on my cake
Happy birthday to me
Happy birthday my love

credits

released August 4, 2022
Lyrics: Sally Ann
Music: Ashley Jana

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Sally Ann Paris, France

Music has always been my escapism from harsh realities. I used to battle incessantly with a series of 'colourful diagnoses'.

But now, as an emancipated artist armed with the voice I fought for, I write songs that muse on the philosophy of life and spin experiences with trials and tribulations over darkness into rhapsodic stories.

In hopes to shine a light on the shadows that try to over-tower.
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