Happy All the Time

Happy All the Time - Danny Schmidt

I remember on the days

When I was happy all the time

Of the forest and the fray

But I was happy all the time

And the honeysuckle buds

All dripped the sweetest love

And I never lost the taste cause

I was happy I was happy all the time

I lived inside a log but

I was happy all the time

With the lizards and the frogs

But I was happy all the time

And I always ate at dawn

And I always slept til dark

I guess I worked too hard

But I was happy I was happy all the time

I danced beneath the moon

Cause I was happy all the time

With the beavers and racoons

Cause I was happy all the time

And the sycamores would chaperone

And flash approving teeth

And herons cheered me on

Cause I was happy I was happy all the time

Bubblebaths and parties

I was happy all the time

With berries and Bacardi

I was happy all the time

Is it darkness that inspires us

Or passion that requires us

To have to stay so loose to be so happy

Happy all the time

A river of retsina I was happy all the time

And though the bank was sorta seedy

I was happy all the time

So I piled high the stones

Until the river kindly rose

Well dam it all cause

I was so damn happy

I was happy all the time

I took the time to breathe

Cause I was happy all the time

Among the rootbuds and the weeds

Cause I was happy all the time

But the peat moss

And the leaves took turns

With both my feet

Until my toes took root and I was happy

I was happy all the time

I begged upon the seasons

I was happy all the time

To strip my rhymes and reasons

I was happy all the time

And the winter rained like razors

And the summer burned like bees

And my skin grew thick as bark cause

I was happy I was happy all the time

There was fire in the forest

I was happy all the time

To cleanse our closets for us

I was happy all the time

And my branches were the first

To embrace the scalded earth

And my middle opened wide

Cause I was happy

I was happy all the time

Now there's a boy inside my chest

And he seems happy all the time

Untethered and undressed

And just so happy all the time

And all the frogs and all the lizards

Tell him tales of droughts and blizzards

And the soil 'neath his toes

Just feels so rich

And just so happy