Paul Simon — So Beautiful or So What

[Verse 1] I'm going to make a chicken gumbo Toss some sausage in the pot I'm going to flavor it with okra Cheyenne pepper to make it hot [Refrain] You know life is what we make of it So beautiful or so what [Verse 2] I'm going to tell my kids a bedtime story A play without a plot Will it have a happy ending? Maybe yeah, maybe not [Refrain] I tell them life is what you make of it So beautiful or so what So beautiful, so beautiful So what [Verse 3] I'm just a raindrop in a bucket A coin in a slot I am an empty house on Weed Street Across the road from a vacant lot [Refrain] You know life is what you make of it So beautiful or so what [Chorus] Isn't it strange the way we're 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 [Bridge] 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" [Chorus] Isn't it strange the way we're 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