Live at Five and CNN
keep us all abreast
of breaking stories
that can tend
to make us anxious and depressed
Problems with no answers
hang on like some chronic cough
And every day
some brand new issue
rears it's head to piss you off
<Interlude>
Bad guys win
Optimism's wearing thin
Things are spinning
out of control
Cynicism's all the fad
World events could make us
mad as hatters
Almost every day
some underpinning slips away
These aren't laughing matters
Time bombs tick
People keep on getting sick
And a nickel's not worth a cent
Widckedness and greed abound
Just as peace is gaining ground
it shatters
Hate is here to stay
and justince goes
to those who pay friend
these aren't laughing matters
The truth is scarrier by far
than anything that
Stephen King could write
The stories in the paper are
the daily small decline and fall
spelled out in black and white
<Interlude>
What to do
how to take a brighter view
when your noodle's totally fried
Human spriits need to be
leavened by a little levity
So take those blues
and bounce them off the wall
Keep your humor please
'cause don't you know it times
like these
that laughing matters
most of all