Jeffrey Lewis – It Could Be Worse (2024) | Track profile | Dork

Jeffrey Lewis – It Could Be Worse (2024) | Track profile | Dork

Lyrics

It Could Be Worse

[Chorus]

I'm up all night just where I'm laying

I've got no god so I'm not praying

All I have is just to keep on saying ehh

I guess it could be worse

[Verse]

War in Ukraine on T.V

People talking about World War 3

I had the same qualms everyone I know did

Like atom bombs? We're not even done with Covid!

[Chorus]

I'm up all night just where I'm laying

I've got no god so I'm not praying

All I have is just to keep on saying ehh

I guess it could be worse

[Verse]

Some say the first nukes for Manhattan

The next minute Moscow will flatten

My dad says nyehh whatever they've claimеd

They won't all land right where thеy've aimed

[Chorus]

So I'm here awake where I've been laying

If I had a god i would be praying

All i have is to just keep on saying ehh

I guess it could be worse

[Verse]

My heart died in 2016

Trump disproved all what life should mean

9/11 has left me less than whole

But this was the 9/11 of my soul

[Chorus]

Now I'm up all night just where I'm laying

And there's no god or I'd be praying

All i do is keep on saying ehh

I guess it could be worse

[Verse]

My heart is pounding, stomach's churning

East coast drowning, west coast burning

And the irony is almost funny

That my anxiety drove away my honey

[Chorus]

Now I'm up alone just where I'm laying

I've got no god so I'm not praying

All I've got is to just keep on saying ehh

I guess it could be worse

The news is only non stop slaughter

Refugees at every border

Headlines so filled up with blood

They skipped Australia's massive flood

[Chorus]

And I'm up all night just where I'm laying

I've got no god so I'm not praying

All I've got is to just keep on saying ehh

I guess it could be worse

[Verse]

Global crises all deep and systemic

Then Trump then plus world-wide pandemic

Now war that gets more huge each hour

With huge crazed nuclear superpower?

The whole planet shut a couple years ago

What can't happen can? Oh that's nice to know

Now I've been so doomed and I've been so gloomed

Game over! I'm totally consumed

Now literally, here's how I think

When I'm awake for hours on the brink

I'm like, "Even if no human is left alive, there's probably fish that could survive"

That's how I cheer myself up now

To calm myself and sleep that's how

In daylight yea, it sounds perverse

But that's how I cling to it could be worse

[Chorus]

So now again all night here laying

I got no god so I'm not praying

All I got is to keep on saying ehh

I guess it could be worse

[Verse]

Is it my fault these things all hurt me

I swear I'm nice please don't desert me!

I'm more laughs than Laurel and Hardy

Can't you just I'm fun at a party

A song should have a happy ending

But if I write one now I'd be pretending

I need some way to not sound bleak

I guess I shouldn't even speak

*whistle outro*

[outro]

No I can't!

I can't end there!

It still is better to fight despair!

Until I find some kind of better verse

All I've got right now is.. I guess.. It could be worse

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