Wow Legs

Lying in the park on a beautiful day
Sunshine in the grass and the children play
Sirens passin, fire engine red
Someone’s house is burning down on a day like this

The evening comes and we’re hanging out
on the front step and the car goes by with the windows rolled down
and that old song is playing “Why can’t we be friends?”
someone is screaming and crying in the apartment upstairs

Funny the way it is if you think about it
Somebody’s going hungry, and someone else is eating out
Funny the way it is, not right or wrong
Somebody’s heart is broken and it becomes your favorite song

The way her mouth feels in a lover’s kiss
like a pretty bird on the breeze or water to a fish
the bomb blast brings a building crashing to the floor
hear the laughter while the children claim war

Funny the way it is if you think about it
One kid walks ten miles to school, another’s droppin’ out
Funny the way it is, not right or wrong
Oh, a soldier’s last breath and babies being born

Standing on a bridge
watch the water passing under
neath it must have been much harder
when there was no bridge, just water
now the world is small, remember how it used to be
with mountains and oceans and winters and rivers and stars

There’s the sky, the jet plane so far out of my reach
Is there someone up there looking down on me?
a boy chase a bird, so close but every time
he never catch her, but he can’t stop trying

Funny the way it is if you think about it
One kid walks ten miles to school, another droppin’ out
Funny the way it is, not right or wrong
A soldier’s last breath and babies being born

Funny the way it is, not right or wrong
Somebody’s broken heart becomes your favorite song
Funny the way it is, if you think about it
One kid walks ten miles to school, another’s droppin’ out

Standing on a bridge
watch the water passing under
neath it must have been much harder
when there was no bridge, just water
now the world is small, remember how it used to be
with mountains and oceans and winters and rivers and stars