Day 3 - A song that makes you happy

There are many songs that make me happy, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to go for another Elliott Smith song. Most of his albums and songs are downbeat, some sighingly so, like 'Between The Bars' but some just heartbreakingly so like 'Miss Misery.' Some of his songs are angry, chiefly the ball of rage that is the song 'Roman Candle,' some are self loathing like 'Rose Parade.'

There is only one song in his entire catalogue that is really properly happy, and that's the glorious closer to possibly the best album ever made (Either/Or) that starts and ends with the line:

'I'm in love, with the world, through the eyes, of a girl, who's still around the morning after'



The song isn't a relentless ball of light and optimism, but it has hope, something that a lot of Elliott Smith songs don't.