Somebody Else's Troubles - Steve Goodman

Yesterday I went downtown and saw an old-time picture show

And the hero got a pie in the face

He didn’t like that and he stormed around the screen

But everybody else was laughin' in that place

That’s cause it ain’t hard to get along with somebody else’s troubles

And they don’t make you lose any sleep at night

Just as long as fate is out there bustin' somebody else’s bubbles

Everything’s gonna be alright

And everything’s gonna be alright

Tell me, did you ever have to pay for something that you didn’t do?

And did you ever figure out the reason why?

And when the doctor says this is gonna hurt me a lot more than this hurts you

Did you ever figure out that that’s a lie?

He knows it ain’t too hard to get along with somebody else’s troubles

And they don’t make you lose any sleep at night

Just as long as fate is out there bustin' somebody else’s bubbles

Everything is gonna be alright

And everything will be alright

And I saw the boss come a-walkin' down along that factory line

He said, «We all have to tighten up our belts.»

But he didn’t look any thinner than he did a year ago

And I wonder just how hungry that man felt

But he knows it ain’t too hard to get along with somebody else’s troubles

And they don’t make you lose any sleep at night

Just as long as fate is out there bustin' somebody' else’s bubbles

Everything is gonna be alright

And everything is gonna be alright

And I asked that undertaker what it took to make him laugh

When all he ever saw is people cryin'

First he hands me a bunch of flowers that he’d received on my behalf

Said, «Steve, business just gets better all the time.»

And it ain’t too hard to get along with somebody else’s troubles

And they don’t make you lose any sleep at night

Just as long as fate is out there bustin' somebody else’s bubbles

Everything is gonna be alright

And everything is gonna be alright