Laughing Matters Lyrics - Bathhouse Betty - Bette Midler

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 somechronic cough 

And every day some brand new issue 

Rears it's head to piss you off 

Bad guys win 

Optimism's wearing thin 

Things are spinning out of control 

Cynicism's all the fad 

World evens could make us mad 

As hatters 

Almost every day 

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 ground 

It shatters 

Hate is here to stay 

And justice goes to those who pay 

Friend, 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