Laughing Matters-Bette Midler

[ti:Laughing Matters] [ar:Bette Midler] [al:Bathhouse Betty] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.58]Live at Five and CNN [00:03.00] [00:04.01]Keep us all abreast [00:05.32] [00:06.63]Of breaking stories that can tend [00:09.39] [00:09.95]To make us anxious and depressed [00:12.16] [00:12.94]Problems with no answers [00:14.67] [00:15.51]Hang on like some chronic cough [00:17.25] [00:18.64]And every day some brand new issue [00:21.80] [00:22.41]Rears it's head to piss you off [00:26.46] [00:30.21]Bad guys win [00:31.58] [00:33.83]Optimism's wearing thin [00:35.91] [00:38.25]Things are spinning out of control [00:40.96] [00:44.39]Cynicism's all the fad [00:47.69] [00:49.07]World events could make us mad [00:51.78]As hatters [00:53.67] [00:56.51]Almost every day [00:58.16] [01:00.02]Some underpinning slips away [01:03.75] [01:06.29]These aren't laughing matters [01:08.71] [01:13.33]Time bombs tick [01:15.73] [01:17.35]People keep on getting sick [01:19.31] [01:21.65]And a nickel's not worth a cent [01:25.82] [01:28.21]Widckedness and greed abound [01:31.07] [01:32.27]Just as peace is gaining ground [01:35.61]It shatters [01:36.25] [01:40.24]Hate is here to stay [01:42.34] [01:43.90]And justince goes to those who pay [01:47.84] [01:49.59]Friend these aren't laughing matters [01:52.80] [01:55.82]The truth is scarrier by far [02:01.43] [02:04.02]Than anything that Stephen King could write [02:08.88] [02:11.76]The stories in the paper are [02:16.57] [02:20.07]The daily small decline and fall [02:23.65] [02:24.20]Spelled out in black and white [02:27.59] [02:30.29]Oh what to do what to do [02:34.78] [02:37.41]How to take a brighter view [02:39.75] [02:41.90]When your noodle's totally fried [02:45.15] [02:48.88]Human spriits need to be [02:51.53] [02:52.45]Leavened by a little levity [02:55.28] [02:56.31]So take those blues [02:58.47]And bounce them off the wall [03:00.94] [03:03.83]Keep your humor please [03:07.73] [03:08.69]'Cause don't you know it times like these that [03:15.15] [03:16.60]Laughing matters most of all