Joie de Vivre

There’s another sad story on the radio

Another and another, on and on it goes

It might be in my head that it feels this way

But I swear it’s getting worse here everyday



I don’t know how much time we have in this world,

But I just want to spend it with you.

Through the toil and pain of life in this world,

I just want to spend it with you.



The weather’s a-changing, a collapse is on the way

A man can’t make a living on the wages he’s paid.

The crops are drying up and the debts are stacked high

There’s poison in the water, toxic smoke up in the sky.



Now the poor go to the pen’ and the rich get apple pie

A pastor makes a million while his members just scrape by

Some schoolyard bully shoves the loneliest kid

Nobody pays much mind, but someday we’ll wish we did.