Dave Matthews Band - Funny The Way It Is Lyrics

Lying in the park on a beautiful day*
Sunshine in the grass and the children play
Sirens pass in 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 a car goes by with the windows rolled down
And that War 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 your mouth feels in your lover's kiss
Like a pretty bird on the breeze or water to a fish
A bomb blast brings the building crashing to the floor
Hear the laughter while the children play war

Funny the way it is
If you think about it
One kid walks ten miles to school, another's dropping out
Funny the way it is
Not right or wrong
On a soldier's last breath, his baby's being born

Standing on a bridge
Watch the water passing underneath
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?

Watch the sky, a jet plane so far out of my reach
Is there someone up there looking down on me?
A boy sees a bird, so close but every time
He'll 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's dropping out
Funny the way it is
Not right or wrong
On a soldier's last breath, his baby's 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 dropping out

Standing on a bridge
Watch the water passing underneath
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?

• Anonymous

  I really like this song. Not only is it true when you think about it, but it also has the necessary flow to make it a good song and not just one that makes you think.
  
  ~Pariah

• Anonymous

  does anyone know where these lyrics come from? "my best friend gave me some good advice. live each day like your last" or something like that. i don't know the song that goes to.
  
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  thats nickleback- if today was you last day

• Anonymous

  Oh yeah. Dave knows everything. He's cool. He should run for president. Go Dave. You're my idol.

• Anonymous

  life indeed is a funny thing...people don't stop and think about these little things often enough...funny the way it is...So true

• Anonymous

  This is a GREAT song … Love the simplicity of the lyrics sometimes we all for get how fortunate we have it …..

• Anonymous

  does anyone know where these lyrics come from? "my best friend gave me some good advice. live each day like your last" or something like that. i don't know the song that goes to.

• Anonymous

  this is an awesome song...but i expected that from dave

• Anonymous

  Fuckin right. Dave is the man