I Want To Be Happy

The thing that I crave for money cannot buy For with it I know life I would really enjoy I want to be happy and of all cares free But when I look in my mirror a sad face I see. I want to be happy and laugh my cares away And wake in the morning and welcome the day And feel light and easy like a windblown leaf And laugh and be merry for life is so brief. Why do we crave things such as wealth and renown This ego of mine it keeps dragging me down And too much of ego is not a good thing Though of egotistical people we sing. We are pre-occupied with our own self esteem And we only live for our own selves and our blood kin 'twould seem A truly happy person would see life differently And if you know such a person of that person tell me. I want to be happy and free of all care And my gift of happiness with others I'd share But that money cannot buy happiness is only too true And that applies to all people and to me and you.