Funny the Way It Is

Lying in the park on a beautiful day

Sunshine on the grass and the children play

Sirens passing, fire engine 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 smaller, 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 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 smaller, compared to how it used to be with

Mountains, and oceans, and winters, and rivers, and stars