The moment of awakening is at the beginning of the song; it's the moment you consciously realize that you're happy.
Danger! Upon realizing your happiness, you may try to chase after it, savor it... which may engage your intellect, which may then try to identify it, pick it apart, and put it in context. There, it has a tendency to blow away in the breeze, leaving behind only a wistful memory of happiness.
This is not to depress you. This is to call you to imagine other ways to be present with happiness, when you know it has arrived.
This was a difficult challenge for me. Normally, whatever mood there is in the piece I'm creating, I gradually intensify it to a climax. Here, rather intentionally, I opened with the climax and gradually de-intensified the happiness in fits and starts. It makes for an experience that seems normal on the surface, but is deeply weird once it has settled in. This is the most tentative I've heard myself in a long time.
...Enjoy! (enjoy?)
