I´m going to make a chicken gumbo Toss some sausage in the pot I´m going to flavor it with okra Cheyenne pepper to make it hot You know life is what we make of it
So beautiful or so what I´m going to tell my kids a bedtime story A play without a plot Will it have a happy ending? Maybe yeah, Maybe not I tell them life is what you make of it So beautiful or so what So beautiful, so beautiful So what I´m just a raindrop in a bucket A coin in a slot I am an empty house on Weed Street Across the road from a vacant lot You know life is what you make of it So beautiful or so what
Isn´t it strange the way we´re ignorant How we seek out bad advice
How we jigger it and figure it Mistaking value for the price And play a game with time and Love Like a pair of rolling dice So beautiful, so beautiful So what
Four men on the balcony Overlooking the parking lot Pointing at a figure in the distance Dr. King has just been shot And the sirens long melody Singing savior pass me not
Isn´t it strange the way we´re ignorant How we seek out bad advice How we jigger it and figure it Mistaking value for the price
And play a game with time and Love Like a pair of rolling dice So beautiful, so beautiful So what