People Are Funny That Way

Four well-dressed holy rollers

Nearly broke their necks flying over their handlebars

Caught a curb trying to catch an eyeful

Of the neighbor’s wife sunbathing in her front yard

Their religious affiliation

split up quick from the shame of the incident

congregants miss the conversation

about death

dinosaurs and deviled eggs

and the message left up on the marquis

Said if life stinks

we’ve got a pew for you Sunday

laugh it off enjoy the show

 get in on the joke

 people are funny that way

Out in the piney woods of east Texas

They crown the worlds biggest liar every June

They line up with their well crafted stories

But the winner ten years running

Says the secret is to tell the truth

Like the one about the boy from

buttoned down Oklahoma

Who was going broke in Nashville

valeting cars

Till he finally found his crowd

Singing George strait songs downtown

At the Ten Gallon Cowboy gay bar

He writes and lies to his mother

Might be too much

for his hometown to take

Laughs it off Enjoys the show

Sing The Chair and Ace in the Hole

People are funny that way

Momma swore off then gosh darned cigarettes

Daddy swore momma would be his last ex wife

You’re aging like a war time president

Watching everybody live this thing called life

I just got back in from Panama City

Spent 3500 dollars over the last 3 days

To hear a guru in Groucho glasses

Sitting cross legged on a folding table say

it’s the most divine of comedies

so why such a serious face

laugh it off enjoy the show, get in on the joke

 people are funny that way

Ever since God made adam

And that earth mother Eve

We’ve been arguing with god

Taking to snakes and eating forbidden trees

Turning a blind ear to Roger Miller

Trying to navigate a buffalo herd on roller skates

washes dishes with a hammer

Steady bitching, steady bitching bout the broken plates

It’s an interstellar comedy

Spinning rock big top circus out in space

When the world gets you down

Dress everybody up like a clown

People are funny that way

Laugh it off Enjoy the show

Get in on the joke

People are funny that way