So Beautiful or so What

I'm going to make a chicken gumbo

Toss some sausage in the pot

I'm going to flavor it with okra

Cheyenne 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 a vacant lot

You know life is what you make of it

So beautiful or so what

Isn'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 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"

Isn'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 what