It’s March! A time for madness. March Madness, if you’re into the whole basketball sports thingy. I was thinking about the March Hare originally. But there really aren’t a lot of songs I know about rabbits. Or hair.

So we’re playing with madness this month. Actually, I play with madness every month. Just not in the same way that Spo does. But this month I/we (being the Blobby) am/are showcasing some of the songs that–to me–are about madness.

I’d say a lot of my madness is self-inflicted. Me telling my brain that everything will be okay. Slapping a fresh coat of paint on the outside and burying what’s on the inside. Kind of like a house. But made of meat.

Siouxsie & The Banshees – Happy House (1980)

This is the happy house, we’re happy here in the happy house
Oh, it’s such fun, fun, fun
We’ve come to play in the happy house
And waste a day in the happy house, it never rains, never rains

We’ve come to scream in the happy house
We’re in a dream in the happy house
We’re all quite sane, sane, sane
This is the happy house-we’re happy here

There’s room for you if you say “I do”
But don’t say no or you’ll have to go
We’ve done no wrong with our blinkers on
It’s safe and calm if you sing along, sing along, sing along

This is the happy house, we’re happy here in the happy house
To forget ourselves and pretend all’s well
There is no hell