So Beautiful Or So What

Album: So Beautiful Or So What (2011)
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  • I'm going to make a chicken gumbo
    Toss some sausage in the pot
    I'm going to flavor it with okra
    Cayenne 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 dropped in a slot
    I am an empty house on Weed Street
    Across the road from the vacant lot
    You know life is what you make of it
    So beautiful or so what

    Ain'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 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

    Ain'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 beautiful Writer/s: Paul Simon
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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