Laughing Matters

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 everyday some some brand new issue
 Rears it head to piss you off
 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 everyday, 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
 Wickedness and greed abound
 Just as peace is gaining grounds it shatters
 Hate is here to stay
 And justice goes to those who pay
 Friends, these aren't laughing matters
 The truth is scarier 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
 Oh what to do, what to do
 How to take a brighter view
 When your noodle's totally fried
 Human spirits 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's times like these that
 Laughing matters most of all