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Planned Community

from Have A Nice Day! by Happy Ending

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Original 1983 pressing with original mix (different from download mix). Includes 7" 45 with tracks 14 and 15 of the download, booklet with lyrics and collages. Does not include tracks 1 and 16 of the download, which weren't part of the original vinyl release.

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lyrics

Verse 1: It's the modern way to live out our days
In a planned community
Pay your bills on time and you'll be free of crime
In an atmosphere of tight security

Verse 2: They'll fill up your time with things to do
Like fun social activity
Structure your days for you from morning through
And at night you have a drink and watch TV

Chorus 1: Sitting alone facing choices about my life
Freedom and uncertainty cut me like a knife
Looking around I see the way that it will be
If I lose myself inside the planned community

Verse 3: Work from 9 to 5 or if you are retired
You play poker in the rec hall afternoon
Dinnertime at 6, company at 8
Who'll be leaving at 10 because it's late

Chorus 1

Verse 4: It's the price I pay to try and get away
From the planned community
Pill my tax each year and work to suppress the fire
Bubbling up in insecurity

Chorus 2: Sitting alone and it's getting lonelier each year
Autumn was my season but now i start to fear
Like the leaves turned crisp and gold and falling from the tree
I'll be raked into the basket of the planned community
I'll be placed inside the casket of the planned community
I'll be raked into the basket of the planned community
I'll be placed inside the casket of the planned community

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from Have A Nice Day!, released December 9, 1983
Composed by Hank Hoffman

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Happy Ending New Haven, Connecticut

Happy Ending formed in 1983. Inspired by garage rock, psychedelia and folk rock, the songs on debut vinyl LP “Have A Nice Day!” sported lyrics dark with Reagan-era political dread. Thirty years later, the current lineup features original members Hank Hoffman and Richard Brown—now playing guitar and flute as well as sax—along with drummer Tom Smith and bassist Randy Stone. Pop meets psych freakout. ... more

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