It's So Easy To Be Sad Lyrics - Gilbert Osullivan

See the statues in the square 

They almost look alive 

It's amazing after all these years 

How they've survived 

Two young children gazing at them 

Faces so forlorn 

One is saying to the other 

I wonder how they're born 

It's funny how we always tend 

To look back on our past 

As if they were the only good times 

That we're ever going to have 

See the river heading outwards 

Watch the ships sail in 

Notice how despite their size 

They very rarely sink 

Tell the man who's watching with you 

His shoelace is undone 

When he looks pretend you didn't notice 

You were wrong 

And anytime there's trouble up ahead 

Don't get into a state 

Where you wish you were dead 

Just take your time and do 

What you believe is right 

It could turn out to be 

A blessing in disguise-disguise- 

It's funny how we always tend 

To overlook the bad 

Doesn't anybody know that 

It's so easy to be sad 

Talk about doing what you do best 

Seems to me the more you do 

The less you get 

All told I would say that it was pretty grim 

Although on the other hand 

I've got a ring 

Mass unemployment's at an all time best 

Why not quit your job and take a well earned rest 

Grow old on the dole 

That's the life I need 

Everybody's doing it so why not me