i love this very much, 80s sensibilities and all, and not just because the chorus also evokes "Our House", which was always a childhood fave for me...

Well, again, I'm totally hooked. Love your disguised questioning lyrics in this happy sounding song. I get a tad bit of early Bowie in this. ⁓Rebecca

This is a great song; I like the lyrics, vocals and production.

How are you doing this?! What wizzardry are you employing to create a track that sounds so professional, so full and radio ready.  Your songwriting is fantastic. 

lovely hearing some new (new to me) wheelwright this morning, but now that i have your voice in my head, i am going to have to go find that song of yours that breaks my heart.

Charming song that makes me smile - which is a little odd. Perhaps its the recognition of what you are describing. Im a bit of a catastrophiser myself

It ended up a lot more 80s than I originally intended.
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Fish with anxiety problems
Lobsters with anxiety problems
Squid with anxiety problems

They think about
Disturbing facts
They think about
Things I don't want to
But I don't want to
Come across as
The kind of person
You'd walk away from so

I'm trying hard to be happy
Even though everything is wrong
I'm trying not to be down
Even though that doesn't really work

Girls with anxiety problems
Boys with anxiety problems
Robots with anxiety problems

They think too much
They focus on
On all the things that
That could go wrong but
But I don't want to
Come across as
The kind of person
You wouldn't talk to so

[Repeat chorus]

Fish with anxiety problems etc.

[Repeat chorus]
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Produced arranged composed performed recorded & mixed (inexpertly) by Wheelwright in bedroom.
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Original photo (I've messed about with it a bit) Sigmund https://unsplash.com/@sigmund
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I'm Trying Hard To Be Happy

Music's got a hold of me.
I am also half of Fictive Sisters https://fictivesisters.bandcamp.com

I have a soundcloud manifesto too (I know almost no one cares):
(1) I do not want to win at soundcloud
(2) I respect people who listen by trying to do work that is as good as I can make it but I may attempt (and possibly fail badly at) different kinds of music so you will probably find some of my tracks suck quite badly even if you like others
(3) If I follow you please feel no obligation to follow me back or to listen to my tracks because I know different people like different things
(4) If you follow me please don’t expect me automatically to follow you back because as I said different people like different things. I try to listen to most new uploads of the people I do follow, so there are only so many people I can meaningfully follow (and only so many reposts I can cope with) at any one time before it all gets a bit overwhelming
(5) If I add a track of yours to my likes that means I particularly like it and if I comment on a track that means I really did want to communicate something. I do not do these things expecting or wanting anything in return or fishing for listeners/followers etc.
(6) Soundcloud (still) can be wonderful and has wonderful people in its universe but some aspects of it do my head in and so I am putting this out here so everyone knows where I am coming from. This is not intended as criticism of anyone else, it is just what works for me

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