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.

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.
Wickedness and greed abound.

Sing with the song of Bette Midler, Laughing Matters lyrics!

Just as peace is gaining ground
it shatters.
Hate is here to stay,
and justice goes to those who pay.
Friend, 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 times like these that
laughing matters most of all.

bette midler

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bathhouse betty beaches bette bette midler bette midler sings the peggy lee songboo bette midler sings the rosemary clooney bette of roses broken blossom divine madness for the boys gypsy home alone 2 live at last mud will be flung tonight! no frills oliver and company sex and the city some people's lives songs for the new depression the divine miss m the hunchback of notre dame the rose thighs and whispers Click here to view All Albums and Song Lyrics of Bette Midler!