Funny the Way It Is

Lying in the park on a beautiful day

Sun shine on the grass and the children play

Siren’s passing, fire engine's red

Someone’s house is burning down on a day like this



The evening comes and we’re hanging out

On the front step and a car rolls by with the windows rolled down

And that War song is playing, “Why Can’t We Be Friends?”

Someone is screaming and crying in the apartment upstairs






Funny the way it is, and if you think about it

Somebody’s going hungry and someone else is eating out

Funny the way it is, not right or wrong

Somebody’s heart is broken and it becomes your favorite song






The way your mouth feels in a lover's kiss

Like a pretty bird on a breeze or water to a fish

A bomb blast brings the building crashing to the floor

Hear the laughter while the children play war






Funny the way it is, and if you think about it

One kid walks ten miles to school, another’s dropping out

Funny the way it is, not right or wrong

On a soldier’s last breath, his baby’s being born






Standing on the bridge, watch the water passing under me

It must’ve been much harder when there was no bridge, just water

Now the world is small, remember how it used to be

With mountains and oceans and winters and rivers and stars






Watch the sky in a jet plane, so far out of my reach

Is there someone up there looking down on me?

Boy chase a bird, so close but every time

He’ll never catch her, but he can’t stop trying






Funny the way it is, and if you think about it

One kid walks ten miles to school, another’s dropping out

Funny the way it is, not right or wrong

On a soldier’s last breath his baby’s being born

Funny the way it is, not right or wrong

Somebody’s broken heart becomes your favorite song

Funny the way it is, and if you think about it

One kid walks ten miles to school, another’s dropping out






Standing on a bridge, watch the water passing under me

It must’ve been much harder when there was no bridge, just water

Now the world is small, compared to how it used to be

With mountains and oceans and winters and rivers and stars