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