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Too Happy For Your Liking

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Released:

9th October 2020
(John Lennon's 80th Birthday)

Began Writing:

29th June 2019

Recorded:

1st December 2008 - 14th September 2020

Studio:

Inky Studios

Length:

2:34

Label:

Joel Dobbins Music

Credits:

Music & Lyrics:

Joel Dobbins

Cover Art:

Joel Dobbins

Mixing & Mastering:

Joel Dobbins

Too Happy For Your Liking Joel Dobbins Yes

Back Story:

"For the first time I really experienced with extended breaks where it just gives a chance for the music to go on some tangents before returning back to the lyric filled verse. The song is about people who might get jealous of your own successes, happiness and positive attitude in life and trying to sabotage your life and make you feel awkward or uncomfortable or disrespected so that they feel more equal to you. It's important that we don't invest too much time in people with whom you can be too happy for their liking. It's good to identify what's happening and perhaps some of the motivations behind it and to learn how to manage life with people trying to pull you down. Celebrities are affected by this the most as they have a whole world full of destructive people whereas as luckily most of us only have to deal with the destructive people that we happen to run into throughout life."
- Joel Dobbins

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Lyrics:

Happiness itself
Is taking your control
How depraved can you be
To drag me down this rabbit hole

Think you're so outsmarting
Too happy for your liking
Meanwhile, I can't help but thinking
It's you I'm out psyching

Too happy for your liking

Emotionally you shut me down
As if I'm not even there
Never giving me a glance
While through gossip you stare

Dangling a carrot we can see it isn't real
That ain't motivating anyone here
You're making great leaps to
Generate unwarranted fear

Too happy for your liking