A Little Good News

I rolled out this morning, the kids had the morning news show on

Bryant Gumbel was talking about the fighting in Lebanon

Some senator was squawking 'bout the bad economy

It's gonna get worse you see, we need a change in policy

There's a local paper rolled up in a rubber band

One more sad story's one more than I can stand

Just once, how I'd like to see the headline say

Not much to print today, can't find nothing bad to say

Because

Nobody robbed a liquor store on the lower part of town

Nobody OD'd, nobody burned a single building down

Nobody fired a shot in anger, nobody had to die in vain

We sure could use a little good news today

I'll come home this evening I'll bet that the news will be the same

Somebody takes a hostage, somebody steals a plane

How I wanna hear the anchor man talk about a county fair

And how we cleaned up the air, how everybody learned to care

Whoa, tell me

Nobody was assassinated in the whole third world today

And in the streets of Ireland all the children had to do was play

And everybody loves everybody in the good old USA

We sure could use a little good news today

Nobody robbed a liquor store on the lower part of town

Nobody OD'd, nobody burned a single building down

Nobody fired a shot in anger nobody had to die in vain

We sure could use a little good news today