Funny The Way It Is

Lying in the park on a beautiful day
Sunshine in the grass
And the children play
Sirens pass and fire engine red
Someone's house is burning down
On a day like this

The evening comes and we're hangin' out
On a front step and a car goes 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
Makes you think about it
Somebody's going hungry
And someone else is eatin' 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 your lover's kiss
Like a pretty bird on the breeze
Or water to a fish
The bomb blast brings the building crashing to the floor
Hear the laughter
While the children play war

Funny the way it is
Make you think about it
One kid walks ten miles to school
Another's droppin' out
Funny the way it is
Not right or wrong
On a soldier's last breath
His baby's being born

Standing on a bridge
Watch the water passing underneath
It must have 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

Watch the sky
A jet plane so far out of my reach
Is there someone up there
Looking down on me?
A boy chase a bird
So close but every time
He never catch her
But he can't stop tryin'

Funny the way it is
Make you think about it
One kid walks ten miles to school
Another's droppin' 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 (Funny the way it is)
Make you think about it
One kid walks ten miles to school
Another's droppin' out

Standing on a bridge
Watch the water passing underneath
It must have been much harder
When there was no bridge, just water
Now the world is small
Compared to how it use to be
With mountains and oceans
And winters and rivers and stars
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Funny The Way It Is
Dave Matthews Band
Big Whiskey & The GrooGrux King