Sing to be happy?

Song expresses joy

Song suppresses the opposite[1]

At times we sing to change the mood

Just make sure you know who composed the song

For the new mood might be one you don’t want

You got to know who’s under the hood

Does he live in the hood?

Or is he where he should?[2]

Escaping with a sweet tune

It’s not really an escape

One is really coming home

Tapping into to his deeper self

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[1] See Sefer Hamamorim 5680 p. 15 about these two forms of song

[2] General sources in Torah about non-Jewish music see here, for some Chabad sources see here

Inspired

The Gerer Rebbe center ("Imrei Emes") c. 1930 looking "inspired"

So inspired 

I'm not getting tired

I feel very wired

Yet I know this will eventually fade and get expired

I don't want this to end

I want it to continue on end

Getting inspired is something I highly recommend

Your spirit it will mend

You folly it will bend

To get it, cash you need not spend

It can come in a moment 

It can come at any time

In me it does come

In me it does chime

It does eventually decline

After is subsides

You might feel a low

You feel slow

It's out in the distance

A far away crow

It will probably return 

For that we can yearn

Our desire does burn

We wait out turn

Maybe it, we need to earn 
In the intern 
We can use that inspiration
And become like a 'new born'
We can grow tall like yellow corn [1]

[1] See Torah Or 31a, Tzidkas Hatodok 1