So Beautiful or So What
Life's Gumbo: Flavoring Existence with Beauty and Questions
Lyrics
I'm gonna make a chicken gumbo
I intend to prepare chicken gumbo.
Toss some sausage in the pot
Adding sausage to the pot.
I'm gonna flavor it with okra
Flavoring the gumbo with okra.
Cheyenne pepper to make it hot
Using Cheyenne pepper for spiciness.
You know life is what we make of it
Life's quality is determined by our choices.
So beautiful or so what
Life can be either beautiful or challenging.
I'm gonna tell my kids a bedtime story
Planning to share a plotless bedtime story with kids.
A play without a plot
Highlighting the lack of a specific narrative.
Will it have a happy ending?
Uncertain about a happy ending in the story.
Maybe yeah, maybe not
Life's outcomes are unpredictable.
I tell them life is what you make of it
Emphasizing the impact of personal choices on life.
So beautiful or so what
Life can be beautiful or challenging based on our actions.
So beautiful, so beautiful
Repetition of the beauty and uncertainty of life.
So what
Reiterating the sentiment expressed in line 6.
I'm just a raindrop in a bucket
Describing oneself as a small part of a larger context.
A coin dropped in a slot
Comparing life to chance, like a coin in a slot machine.
I am an empty house on Weed Street
Being an empty house in a street with vacant lots.
Across the road from a vacant lot
Highlighting the emptiness in the surroundings.
You know life is what you make of it
Life's quality depends on personal perspectives.
So beautiful, or so what
Repeating the idea that life can be beautiful or challenging.
Ain't it strange the way we're ignorant
Reflecting on human ignorance and choices.
How we seek out bad advice
Seeking bad advice despite its negative consequences.
How we jigger it and figure it
Manipulating and misinterpreting situations.
Mistaking value for the price
Confusing the value of things with their cost.
And play a game with time and love
Playing risky games with time and love.
Like a pair of rolling dice
Comparing life's uncertainties to rolling dice.
So beautiful, so beautiful
Reiterating the beauty and unpredictability of life.
So what
Repeating the sentiment expressed in line 6.
Four men on the balcony
Depicting a scene with four individuals on a balcony.
Overlooking the parking lot
Observing a parking lot from the balcony.
Pointing at a figure in the distance
Pointing to an event related to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Dr. King has just been shot
Referencing the assassination of Dr. King.
And the sirens long melody
Describing the sirens' melancholic sound.
Singing savior pass me not
Referencing a plea for salvation in difficult times.
Ain't it strange the way we're ignorant
Repeating the theme of human ignorance and bad advice.
How we seek out bad advice
Reiterating the consequences of seeking poor guidance.
How we jigger it and figure it
Repeating the theme of misjudging value and cost.
Mistaking value for the price
Emphasizing the risks taken in matters of time and love.
And play a game with time and love
Repeating the metaphor of life as a game of rolling dice.
Like a pair of rolling dice
Reiterating the beauty and unpredictability of life.
So beautiful, so beautiful
Repeating the sentiment expressed in line 6.
So beautiful
Repetition of the word "beautiful" to conclude the song.
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