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teenage fanclub señor amor   My life feels so worthwhile
When I go where you send me
When I can't find a smile
You've got one to lend me


Teenage Fanclub – “Happiness”
Most people say that love is untouchable; that it doesn’t fit in a matchbox, but that it is bigger than the new airbus. How much love is there in a flower? And in a cell? Isn’t it strange? We spend half of our lives trying to explain things that have no explanation. When someone said it was untouchable, she or he might have had his/her own reasons. That’s it.

However, it is easier to relate untouchable elements. For example, there is a close relationship between love and happiness. We should ask to those teenagers who first started in the game of love. They always have a smile like Joker’s in Batman. I can’t think of a better way of dying than dying for happiness (except for dying making love). Besides, this goes two ways. Many people get the other’s metric tons. However, how much happiness space does a metric ton fill? In my own case, and as I am small and anonymous, a single day-to-day detail can cheer me up. I try to get back a childhood concept: the first boredom feeling comes up on the day of your first communion. After this moment, how many bored children have been seen? I find my biggest happiness dose in compact discs, in good discs. I don’t classify my discs by tendencies. In my house shelves, the discs are classified according to the happiness amount they have. Teenage Fanclub are among the top positions.

A melodic sunbeam. The highest level of simplicity, the purest optimistic feeling that can be transmitted by air, made with no pretension, hairstyle or clothes marketing. A heart opens and happiness sunbeams pour out. You reach this situation with no explanation and suddenly, you get in a project that makes you lose your money, your mood gets better and become a source of energy. Then you drive 900 kilometers (you are 30!!) to see a music concert or you take your guitar to reach the level of your friends.

For happiness (and love, and illusion and...) is like energy. It isn’t created and is indestructible. You cannot buy it, it can get transmitted. It captures you, takes you high, loads you and shoots you. However, it is still legal.