Life Is A Funny Proposition After All - Stephen DeRosa

Did you ever sit and ponder

Sit and wonder sit and think

Why we're here and what this life is all about

It's a problem that has driven

Many brainy men to drink

It's the weirdest thing they've tried to figure out

About a thousand different theories

All the scientists can show

But never yet have proved a reason why

With all we've thought

And all we're taught

Why all we seem to know

Is we're born and live a while and then we die

Life's a very funny proposition after all

Imagination jealousy hypocrisy and all

Three meals a day a whole lot to say;

When you haven't got the coin you're always in the way

Everybody's fighting as we wend our way along

Every fellow claims the other fellow's in the wrong;

Hurried and worried until we're buried and there's no curtain call

Life's a very funny proposition after all

When all things are coming easy and when luck is with a man

Why then life to him is sunshine everywhere;

Then the fates blow rather breezy and they quite upset a plan

Then he'll cry that life's a burden hard to bear

Though today may be a day of smiles tomorrow's still in doubt

And what brings me joy may bring you care and woe;

We're born to die but don't know why or what it's all about

And the more we try to learn the less we know

Life's a very funny proposition you can bet

And no one's ever solved the problem properly as yet

Young for a day then old and gray;

Like the rose that buds and blooms and fades and falls away

Losing health to gain our wealth as through this dream we tour

Everything's a guess and nothing's absolutely sure;

Battles exciting and fates we're fighting until the curtain falls

Life's a very funny proposition after all