the happy thomas family

There’s something in the way he moves,
or looks my way, or calls my name,
that seems to leave this troubled world behind.
If I’m feeling down and blue,
or troubled by some foolish game,
he always seems to make me change my mind.

And I feel fine anytime he’s around me now –
he’s around me now,

almost all the time.
If I’m well you can tell that he’s been with me now –
and he’s been with me now,
quite a long, long time –
And I feel fine.

Every now and then the things I lean on lose their meaning,
and I find myself careening
into places where I should not let me go.
He has the power to go where no one else can find me.
Yes, and to silently remind me
of the happiness and good times that I know.

It isn’t what he’s got to say
or how he thinks or where he’s been.
To me, the words are nice, the way they sound.
I like to hear them best that way –
It doesn’t much matter what they mean,
he says them mostly just to calm me down.

And I feel fine anytime he’s around me now –
he’s around me now,
almost all the time.
If I’m well you can tell that he’s been with me now –
and he’s been with me now,
quite a long,
long
time –

Yes, and I feel fine.

Lyrics adapted from Something in the Way She Moves by James Taylor