Easy Like Sunday Morning Track - Happy Returns by Steven Wilson

Today's Easy Like Sunday Morning Track is another beautiful, touching song by Steven Wilson. Happy Returns is off of his album Hand. Cannot. Erase. which came out 7 years ago today. Wilson states that the album is "about a woman growing up, who goes to live in the city, very isolated, and she disappears one day and no one notices." It's based loosely on Joyce Carol Vincent who died in her apartment in the city but no one notices for two years even thought she had friends and family. 

In Happy Returns, the protagonist is writing a letter to her distant brother but before she finishes, she drifts away due to her feeling drowsy. 

"Hey brother, I feel I’m living in parentheses

And I've got trouble with the bills

Do the kids remember me?

Well I got gifts for them

And for you more sorrow

But I’m feeling kind of drowsy now

So I’ll finish this tomorrow"

But she doesn't...