When I'm happy, any song sounds good, but sometimes you get that one that grooves right with you, a song that struts alongside you and moves your shoulders and bounces your knees and before you even know it you're dancing in the street, singing at the top of your voice and getting strange looks from strangers. There's a song that never fails to do that to me, by virtue of its being just so fucking HAPPY.
Oooh, that's a good happy song. Listen to the rhythm bounce. Listen to those hippies sing about peace and love. Catch those crazy harmonies. Oh yeah, Aquarius is good. It's all sweetness and light, carried on the wind like a flower petal. You just have to dance, or bop, or bounce or move around, even if you're just drumming your fingers on the grass or nodding your head to the beat.
Sure, Aquarius is a swaying hippiefest that melts you down into rhythms and harmonies, but right as you're really getting into the groove it kicks your feet out from under you and knocks you for six with the funky soul second half of the song, Let the Sunshine In, and this is the one that's really the song I listen to when I'm happy. Aquarius is good to pass the time, to build the anticipation, but Let the Sunshine In is the ecstasy, the climax.
Forget Like a Rolling Stone kicking open the door to your mind; the change in this song---from Aquarius to Sunshine---kicks open the door to your soul. You move from "oh yeah, man" to "fuck yeah, bro!" in the space of one bar. All it takes is the first phrase of that awesome brass section and suddenly you're a different person.
Different, but feeling no less like one cool motherfucker when you hear it. This here's a song you can really strut to: loosen your elbows, drop your shoulders, bend your knees and walk like a complete idiot wherever you're going. But you won't care how you look, because with this song it's really what's on the inside, and inside of me is joy and spiky cool when I hear this tune.
It's another one for the summer, this song, really, but it works at any time of the year. It's just that in the summer you really feel it work its way through your nervous system and get those endorphines all excited and all your neurons singing like a choir, and you're belting out that lead line like a pro. Yeah, this song's cool alright, bringing with it all the good times and fuzzy feelings that winter shoved out into the cold. The year's getting happier, so let the sunshine in.
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