John Wesley Harding - When All The Bad Things In Your Life Turn To Worth It Lyrics
Those resourceful romeos have all revealedYoure the juliet who couldnt be genteelAll the parents looked askance with much displeasureAs you dared to dance off with their little treasuresAnd the teachers who preached anguish and abstentionTreated you with distant condescensionPatronised your youthful indignationWith their idiotic indoctrinationThen gave you bad grades just for being cleverAnd youre qualified to be in debt for everAnd youll wonder what you didAnd youll think you dont deserve itWhen the bad things, bad thingsWhen all the bad things in your life turn to worth itAll the candidates who claim to know your fearsShit silence like its verbal diarrhoeaImply that your suggestions are so tiredLike they aspired to something higherThey gonna sack you when you give them the wrong answersOr for failing to respond to his advancesAnd youre faced with a senators enquirySequestering your private life in diariesThose wretched romeos now politiciansTelling all the truth but with omissionsAnd youll think that youve been blessedAnd you thought that you were cursedWhen all the bad things, bad thingsWhen all the bad things in your life turn to worth itThe pages fly, the calendar gets thinnerSprings turns into summer into winterPreachers will illuminate their candlesOn romeos with trousers round their anklesThe politicians surrender to indictmentThe teachers sacked for lack of excitementBut these are not the reasons you endureRevenge could never please a heart so pureYou thought your reward would be in heavenOr a day job at the 7-11While everyone around you ran for coverYou found a secret, now your name is loveAnd youll wonder what you didAnd youll think you dont deserve itWhen all the bad things, bad thingsWhen all the bad things in your life turn to worth itWhen all the bad things in your life turn to worth it
