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Artist/Band: Bette Midler
Lyrics for Song: Laughing Matters
Lyrics for Album: Bathhouse Betty [1998]



Live at five and CNN

Keep us all abreast

Of breaking stories that can tend

To make us anxious and depressed

Problems with no answers

Hang on like some chronic cough

And everyday some some brand new issue

Rears it head to piss you off



Bad guys win

Optimism's wearing thin

Things are spinning out of control

Cynicism's all the fad

World events could make us mad as hatters

Almost everyday, some underpinning slips away

These aren't laughing matters



Time bombs tick

People keep on getting sick

And a nickel's not worth a cent

Wickedness and greed abound

Just as peace is gaining grounds it shatters

Hate is here to stay

And justice goes to those who pay

Friends, these aren't laughing matters



The truth is scarier by far

Than anything that Stephen King could write

The stories in the paper are

The daily small, decline and fall

Spelled out in black and white

Oh what to do, what to do

How to take a brighter view

When your noodle's totally fried

Human spirits need to be

Leavened by a little levity

So take those blues and bounce them off the wall

Keep your humor, please

Cause don't you know it's times like these that

Laughing matters most of all


Album Lyrics: Bathhouse Betty [1998]


Bette Midler
"Bathhouse Betty [1998]"


1. Big Socks
2. Boxing
3. I Sold My Heart to the Junkman
4. I'm Beautiful
5. I'm Hip
6. Laughing Matters
7. Lullaby in Blue
8. My One True Friend
9. One Monkey Don't Stop No Show
10. Song of Bernadette
11. That's How Love Moves
12. Ukulele Lady