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The Secret to a Happy Life

from Songwriting Challenges 2013 by Dolores Dagenais

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My father spent the last 9 months of his life in a hospital bed, it's taken me a long time to write a song I think is worthy of him.
The outtro of the song is a snippet of one of his favourite songs that he use to play with my mother when they had their band.

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The Secret to a Happy Life

“Love is the only thing that makes you happy in the end.” He said
As he counted out his grandkids on his fingers in his hospital bed
“The working and the saving, flags you’re flying, games you’re playing aren’t legit
The secret to a happy life is simply feeling love and giving it.”

“I’ve been around a lot of years; I’ve done some things I’d rather not repeat.”
As he drummed out a tune on the starched white hospital sheets
“The winning and the losing, plans you’re making, paths you’re choosing turn and shift
The secret to a happy life is simply feeling love and giving it.”

“So hold on to the faces that make your day
And watch well, all the words that you give away
‘Because you don’t know what will be held to the heart
So make them soft and never sharp”

“Love is the only thing that really matters when it’s said and done”
As the light fell across the bed like fragments from the setting sun
“When noise and confusion and disillusion makes you want to quit
The secret to a happy life is simply feeling love and giving it.”
The secret to a happy life is simply feeling love and giving it.

(Outtro – from The French Song by Harry Pease and Larry Vincent)
When the sun says good day to the mountains
And the night says hello to the dawn
I’m alone with my dreams on the hilltop
I can still hear his voice though he’s gone.

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from Songwriting Challenges 2013, released February 1, 2013

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