Lying in the park on a beautiful day,

Sunshine in the grass, and the children play.

Siren's passing, 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 rolls by with the windows rolled down,

And that war song is playing, “why can't we be friends?”

Someone iss 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 lovers kiss

Like a pretty bird on a breeze or water to a fish

A bomb blast brings a building crashing to the floor

You can hear the laughter, while the children play “war”

Funny the way it is, if you think about it

One kid walks 10 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 under me

It must've 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, the jet planes, so far out of my reach

Is there someone up there looking down on me?

Boy chase 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 10 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, nor right or wrong

Somebody's broken heart becomes your favorite song

Funny the way it is, if you think about it

A kid walks 10 miles to school, another's dropping out.

Standing on a bridge, watch the water passing under me

It must've 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?