[00:00.58]Live at Five and CNN
[00:04.01]Keep us all abreast
[00:06.63]Of breaking stories that can tend
[00:09.95]To make us anxious and depressed
[00:12.94]Problems with no answers
[00:15.51]Hang on like some chronic cough
[00:18.64]And every day some brand new issue
[00:22.41]Rears it's head to piss you off
[00:30.21]Bad guys win
[00:33.83]Optimism's wearing thin
[00:38.25]Things are spinning out of control
[00:44.39]Cynicism's all the fad
[00:49.07]World events could make us mad
[00:51.78]As hatters
[00:56.51]Almost every day
[01:00.02]Some underpinning slips away
[01:06.29]These aren't laughing matters
[01:13.33]Time bombs tick
[01:17.35]People keep on getting sick
[01:21.65]And a nickel's not worth a cent
[01:28.21]Widckedness and greed abound
[01:32.27]Just as peace is gaining ground
[01:35.61]It shatters
[01:40.24]Hate is here to stay
[01:43.90]And justince goes to those who pay
[01:49.59]Friend  these aren't laughing matters
[01:55.82]The truth is scarrier by far
[02:04.02]Than anything that Stephen King could write
[02:11.76]The stories in the paper are
[02:20.07]The daily small decline and fall
[02:24.20]Spelled out in black and white
[02:30.29]Oh  what to do  what to do
[02:37.41]How to take a brighter view
[02:41.90]When your noodle's totally fried
[02:48.88]Human spriits need to be
[02:52.45]Leavened by a little levity
[02:56.31]So take those blues
[02:58.47]And bounce them off the wall
[03:03.83]Keep your humor please
[03:08.69]'Cause don't you know it times like these that
[03:16.60]Laughing matters most of all