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Our Secrets Are the Same
Happy Is The Man

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Happy Is The Man

Release date: 2004

From Our Secrets Are the Same

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"Happy Is The Man" is a track by Simple Minds, from the album Our Secrets Are the Same, released 2004. Full lyrics are available below.

Lyrics

Happy Is The Man

Happy is the man born again

He's growing hollow with age

Makeshift heaven sins

And he hopes you've been saved

Yeah we hear him

He makes no sense at all

Happy is the man who has known

He's made a fool of everyone

The cut short the inside out

Before long he's something to shout about

Please start me bouncing off your wall

Please start me bouncing off your wall

No, he makes no sense at all

Happy is the man who can't trust

He's overcome return to just

Lullaby look in your eye

Yeah we hear him

But he makes no sense

Please start me bouncing off your wall

Please start me bouncing off your wall

It came over me again I said, I said

To see you eyeing around

Lullaby high

Lullaby high

And he makes no sense at all

Please start me bouncing off your wall

And he makes no sense at all

Please start me bouncing off your wall

And he makes no sense at all

Please start me bouncing off your wall

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From Our Secrets Are the Same

2004

Album

Our Secrets Are the Same

Release year

2004

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