Key to Happiness

Verse 1:
On behalf of my sister fuck cancer
We’re going to live our best lives while we have the chance to
So forgive me if I drop it like a dancer
I’m celebrating cuz I finally found the answer
It's the subtle art of not giving too many fucks
And that don’t mean that you don't show your people love
It just means that you love yourself enough to let grown people be grown people and give it up

“It's above me now” is my mantra
I swеar God can do more for you than I ever could
So I pull up out thе hood with my entourage
That's my son, my 3 nieces, and my nephew Jamal, aye y'all

Pre Hook:
I think I found the key to happiness
Got nothing to do with drugs or sex
Got nothing to do with who the best
I finally believe in happiness cuz oh

Hook:
I’m finally living freely
Ain't worried about who or what ain’t for me
And even if the sun don’t shine
Even if life ain't kind
Victory’s mine, oooh
I finally found my happiness

Verse 2:
Sometimes my tears break through my smile
Telling the stories that I try to hide
Take it all in stride
Cuz shit, I got some tales I could tell you
Got a few days of spare time? I won't fail you
My therapist so entertained I need a refund
She keeps laughing at my pain asking for a rerun
Soap opera shit like young and the arrested
Thoroughbreded from a city that’s drug infested
I'm so glad I don’t wear it on my face
Keeping everything in place
You know black girls don’t age
Thank God I can sing away the pain
I can leave it on the stage
You know Imma be ok cuz

Pre Hook:
I think I found the key to happiness
Ain’t got nothing to do with drugs or sex
Got nothing to do with who the best
I finally believe in happiness cuz oh

Hook:
I’m finally living freely
Ain’t worried about who or what ain't for me
And even if the sun don’t shine
Even if life ain't kind
Victory’s mine, oooh
I finally found my happiness

Verse 3:
I’ve been all around the world
And I must confess
I found true happiness
In those who had much less
Capitalism it got us all in a mess
Thinking joy can only come
From us having the best
Shoes, cars, sex
Big name brands on our chests
You’s a fool! What you thought?
You just chasing the next
What we’re lacking is perspective
A true collective
Where we can feel connected and protected, loved and not rejected
It’s simple

Alex Isley:
We’re all looking for the same thing
Love and safety
Somewhere where we belong
Oh it’s really not hard at all, cuz oh

Hook:
I’m finally living freely
Ain’t worried about who or what ain’t for me
And even if the sun don’t shine
Even if life ain't kind
Victory’s mine, oooh
I finally found my happiness