So Beautiful Or So What

Im gonna make a chicken gumbo
Toss some sausage in the pot
Im gonna flavor it with okra
Cayenne pepper to make it hot
You know life is what we make of it
So beautiful or so what
Im gonna 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
Im just a raindrop in a bucket
A coin dropped in a slot
I am an empty house on **** Street
Across the road from a vacant lot
You know life is what you make of it
So beautiful or so what
Aint it strange the way were 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
Aint it strange the way were 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