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Hard To Be Happy

A War With Time

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This song is born out of that familiar, gut-twisting feeling of absorbing too much bad news - when statistics lose their meaning, empathy gets overwhelmed, and the human cost becomes impossible to process. It wrestles openly with contradiction: compassion alongside cruelty, love for animals beside violence toward them, the desire to be good in a world that often rewards indifference. Angry, uneasy, and uncomfortably self-aware, this track doesn’t offer easy answers - it holds up a mirror and asks us to sit with what we see.

Lately,
.....hearing the news
..........makes me feel like
I'm chewing a wasp.
I try to calculate
.....the human cost,
..........how many lives have been lost.
But the non-stop numbers
go beyond all human understanding.
I find I'm landing on
.....impossible squares.
There seems to be nowhere
.....on this cruel planet
where there isn't a human gannet
being rude, stealing your food.
The wars of survival
.....are relentless.
And I'm trying to be good.
I'm trying to be a good person.
But it seems I make matters worse.
I get cursed when I protest
.....about the bad things we do.
Nobody wants to be reminded
.....how horribly unkind they are.

*

They love cats.
.....They love dogs.
..........They love eating cows,
love spit-roasting hogs.
The contradictions
.....make fictions of their loves.
.....Our horses
are seldom made main courses.
Most of us are hawks.
We could never ever be doves.
We cover things up.
We bury the inconvenient facts.

*

Lately,
.....hearing the news
..........makes me feel like
I'm chewing a wasp.
I try to calculate
.....the human cost,
..........how many lives have been lost.
But the non-stop numbers
go beyond all human understanding.
I find I'm landing on
.....impossible squares.
There seems to be nowhere
.....on this cruel planet
where there isn't a human gannet
being rude, stealing your food.
The wars of survival
.....are relentless.
And I'm trying to be good.
I'm trying to be a good person.
But it seems I make matters worse.
I get cursed when I protest
.....about the bad things we do.
Nobody wants to be reminded
.....how horribly unkind they are.

*

They love cats.
.....They love dogs.
..........They love eating cows,
love spit-roasting hogs.
The contradictions
.....make fictions of their loves.
.....Our horses
are seldom made main courses.
Most of us are hawks.
We could never ever be doves.
We cover things up.
We bury the inconvenient facts.

*

Most of us are hawks.
We could never ever be doves.
We cover things up.
We bury the inconvenient facts.

It's a fat fact.
.....It's a factual fact.
..........It's a fat factual fact.

Most of us are hawks.
We could never ever be doves.
We cover things up.
We bury the inconvenient facts.

NON-STOP NUMBERS

Rob Thomas has been one of modern music’s most compelling and commercially successful artists for well over a decade – between Matchbox Twenty, his solo work, and his various collaborations with iconic artists like Santana, Mick Jagger and Willie Nelson, his tally now stands at more than 80 million albums sold worldwide. Arguably the most accomplished singer/songwriter of his generation, it all comes back to the creative source for Rob. As he says with typical understatement, “I’m a guy who hears songs in his head, and I have to write them down, and I have to get them out. I’m just lucky enough that I can make it my life’s work.”

Hard To Be Happy

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